Category: Reveal

Last week’s contest was the final one in the Canada series that saw players visit every province and territory as well as a quick trip across the Atlantic Ocean to Canada House in London, England. The final contest was the northeastern tip of the Qaqulluit Island, Nunavut. The Qaqulluit National Wildlife Area was established in 2010 to protect Canada’s largest breeding colony of Northern Fulmar (estimated at about 27,000 pairs). Qaqulluit is the Inuktitut word for “fulmar”. Qaqulluit is a cultural important area for Inuit, which continues to be used for subsistence today. The NWA comprises the northeastern tip of the Qaqulluit Island and its surrounding waters extending to the territorial sea limit.

Found before the hint:

• Paul Voestermans
• hhgygy
• Phil Ower
• Garfield
• Martin de Bock
• Zorro the fox
• Graham Hedley

And just a reminder that Paul and Andrew will be retiring at the end of January 2026. If you are interested in running the game, rather than playing it, comment and we will get back to you.

This week in our Canada series was a visit to Nova Scotia and the 570 metre long, one-lock Canso Canal. Canso Strait separates Cape Breton Island from the rest of mainland Nova Scotia and the canal is there to allow ships to get from one side of the Canso Causeway to the other when there may be tidal height differences.

Found before the hint:

• Martin de Bock
• Eloy Cano
• hhgygy
• Graham Hedley
• Paul Voestermans
• Garfield
• ashwini agrawal
• Phil Ower
• zorro the fox
• Bernd
• Lighthouse

After the hint:

• Angie CF

This week was a visit to the famous Banff Springs Golf Course in Banff, Alberta, Canada and to be more specific, the 4th hole. A par 3 with an incredible view off the tee towards the east side of Mount Rundle, it’s just one of many spectacular holes at one of the more pricey golf courses in Canada. Opened in 1911 as a nine-hole course laid out by Bill Thomson, a Scottish expatriate who apprenticed under Old Tom Morris at St. Andrews, the Banff Springs Golf Course was expanded to an 18-hole course by Donald Ross in 1924. But it was Stanley Thompson, Canada’s most significant and successful golf architect, who created the layout as it plays today. The course demonstrates his appreciation of traditional links golf courses while emphasizing the subtleties of the mountain landscape. Money was no barrier for the Canadian Pacific Railway, and when unveiled in 1928, the Banff Springs Golf Course was the most expensive ever built.

Found before the hint:

• Phil Ower
• Martin de Bock
• Paul Voestermans
• Garfield
• Eloy Cano
• hhgygy
• Lighthouse
• zorro the fox
• Graham Hedley

We continued the Cabada series with a visit to Canada House in London, United Lingdom. Next to Trafalgar Square and just down a long block from Buckingham Oalace, it’s a home away from home for Canadians abroad.

It is the official High Commission of Canada in the United Kingdom and functions as a diplomatic mission, cultural center, and hub for Canadian services in the UK, showcasing Canadian art, business, and diplomacy. The building is a Greek Revival structure dating back to 1827 and has served as the High Commission since 1925.

Found before the hint:

• Lighthouse
• Martin de Bock
• Paul Voestermans
• Graham Hedley
• Eloy Cano
• hhgygy
• Phil Ower
• zorro the fox
• Garfield

After the hint:

• Bernd

This week was a small rock in the ocean – but was still found by several players! This is North Rock, part of a boundary dispute between Canada and the US over small islands in the Gulf of Maine. The more famous island is Machias Seal Island, home to a Canadian lighthouse – the US recognizes any lighthouse keepers as squatters.

Found before the hint:

• Eloy Cano
• Graham Hedley
• Lighthouse
• Phil Ower
• hhgygy
• Paul Voestermans
• Garfield
• zorro the fox
• Martin de Bock

After the hint:

• Ashwini Agrawal

This week we visited the Anne of Green Gables Museum in Park Corner, Prince Edward Island (PEI), Canada.

Anne of Green Gables is a 1908 novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery (published as L. M. Montgomery). Written for all ages, it has been considered a classic children’s novel since the mid-20th century. Set in the late 19th century, the novel recounts the adventures of an 11-year-old orphan girl Anne Shirley sent by mistake to two middle-aged siblings, Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, who had originally intended to adopt a boy to help them on their farm in the fictional town of Avonlea in Prince Edward Island, Canada. The novel recounts how Anne makes her way through life with the Cuthberts, in school, and within the town. Since its publication, Anne of Green Gables has been translated into at least 36 languages and has sold more than 50 million copies, making it one of the best-selling books worldwide to date in any language, and is taught to students around the world.

The museum is now in a house built in 1872 by Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Uncle John and Aunt Annie Campbell. It opened as a museum in 1972.

Found before the hint:

• Phil Ower
• Lighthouse
• Paul Voestermans
• Martin de Bock
• Garfield
• hhgygy
• zorro the fox
• Glenmorren

After the hint:

• Bernd
• David Kozina
• Graham Hedley

This week we visited the Ross Island ferry, on Highway 373 between Jenpeg and Norway House in northern Manitoba, Canada. The cable ferry crosses one branch of the Nelson River on the river’s way from Lake Winnipeg to Hudson Bay.

Work is underway to eventually replace the ferry with a bridge but for now the ferry runs 24 hours a day between mid-April and the end of December. An ice road operates for the remainder of the year.

Found before the hint:

• Martin de Bock
• Lighthouse
• Paul Voestermans
• Garfield
• Graham Hedley
• hhgygy
• Walter_V_R
• Phil Ower
• Eloy Cano

This week was a visit to one of Canada’s three northern territories and the Rock River campground on the Dempster Highway that extends through the northern Yukon on its way from Dawson to Tuktoyaktuk in the Northwest Territories.

Found before the hint:

• Walter_V_R
• Martin de Bock
• Paul Voestermans
• hhgygy
• Graham Hedley
• Lighthouse
• David Kozina
• Garfield

This week’s contest location was a bridge in northern Ontario, Canada near the town of Nipigon. It’s the only spot that everyone must pass by when driving across the country. No other paved routes exist to go around this one bridge! The cable-stayed bridge in Canada carrying Highway 11 and Highway 17, designated as part of the Trans-Canada Highway, across the Nipigon River was constructed between 2013 and 2018 when the eastbound span was opened.

During the process of construction after the westbound span was opened and all traffic was crossing it, the bridge “broke” during the first period of extremely cold weather. On January 10, 2016, the new bridge was closed to traffic after all 40 M22 bolts attaching a main deck girder to the northwest bearing failed causing the deck to lift by 60 centimetres. The bridge fully reopened to one lane in each direction on February 25, 2016.

Found before the hint:

• Lighthouse
• Martin de Bock
• Phil Ower
• hhgygy
• Walter_V_R
• Glenmorren
• Graham Hedley
• Garfield
• Paul Voestermans
• Bas van Limpt
• David Kozina

This week’s contest location was a lake in southwest Saskatchewan, Canada. Crane Lake is an endorheic lake (no outlet to an eventual ocean) and is a favourite stopping point for birds migrating north to the Canadian Arctic or south. It is part of an Important Bird Area (IBA) of Canada and was included in a bird sanctuary in the past. Franklin’s gull, ferruginous hawk, piping plover, burrowing owl, Wilson’s phalarope, eared grebe, black-crowned night heron, California gull, ring-billed gull, and the lark bunting have been spotted in the area.

Found before the hint:

• Phil Ower
• Paul Voestermans
• hhgygy
• Martin de Bock
• Glenmorren
• Graham Hedley
• Lighthouse
• Garfield

After the hint:

• Walter_V_R