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In April 1980 a 21 year old from Port Coquitlam dipped his artificial leg in the Atlantic and started running a marathon a day across Canada. He never reached the Pacific. Canada has been finishing his run ever since.
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A grassy cove at the tip of Newfoundland held the answer to a thousand year old question. How the Norse reached Canada around the year 1000, what they built, the evidence they left, and the tree ring study that dated their axes to the exact year 1021.
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When United States airspace closed on September 11, 2001, 38 airliners landed in Gander, Newfoundland, a town of about ten thousand people. What Gander did in the next five days became world famous. The plain record is even better.
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