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Has that been posted here before, maybe in the Canada forum? It looks familiar, but I can't place it off the top of my head.

yes, I'm sure that I've seen it in here before... many pages back....

it's possible that I've done this one before.....I have played this game on another site as well and I thought I had used this one there.

i'm going to go out on a limb and guess the chapel at the University of Guelph

Is this at the University of Guelph?
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oops, Lucy already guessed the same place I was thinking of. Is it near there?
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Is it the Arboretum at Guelph?

Not in Guelph. Correct province though.

ahhh... Ontario. Well that certainly narrows it down...

Is it on the Sheridan College Oakville campus?

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Originally Posted by fresnelly (Post 2583093)

Is it on the Sheridan College Oakville campus?

Nope.

ok hint time:- This building is beside water.

I'm thinking that this is the butterflly conservatory at Niagara Falls. I'll google the image to check.

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Originally Posted by Leto (Post 2584153)

I'm thinking that this is the butterflly conservatory at Niagara Falls. I'll google the image to check.

Nope.

OK. Another hint. This building is a museum.

Petroglyphs Provincial Park, near Peterborough?

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Originally Posted by Leto (Post 2585249)

Petroglyphs Provincial Park, near Peterborough?

No.

Wow, this thread is dead.

OK. Hint:- It is in cottage country.

ok... that helps. Bobby Orr museum?

(ever since we lost the Canada forum, this thread has been hampered...)

newp, not the bobby orr museum.

Your right, I was way more active in this thread in the Canada forum....

another hint:- This is on a River

Rideau Canal Museum?

Sorry for the delay. No, this is not the Rideau Canal Museum.

Museum is war related......

Looks nothing like the Canadian War Museum, which is much bigger, fewer trees, but is also on a river in Ontario... going to google again.

Another hint:-

This war museum that is on a river in cottage country near a beach is also on an island.

Little Norway Memorial Building in Muskoka?

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Originally Posted by Leto (Post 2594699)

Little Norway Memorial Building in Muskoka?

no. OK, here's the gimme hint. It's a war of 1812 related museum.

Nancy Island Historic Site,
Wasaga Beach Provincial Park
Wasaga Beach, ON– A museum, theater and lighthouse mark the site of HMS Nancy’s August 14, 1814 battle against three American schooners.

Hallelulja! You got it.

Good Luck,
and remember Google is your friend:

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st Mary's cement plant in Bowmanville Ontario?

Good guess, but no. Wrong Lake, wrong commodity.

okay.... um, Grain elevator at Intercity Harbour, Thunder Bay?

definitely not, Intercity only wished it had that much space.

so it is a grain elevator? getting close?

Yes, that is a grain elevator in the foreground, but I really wanted the name of the port. Grain elevators are a dime a dozen in Great Lakes ports; it's really the structure in the background that the port is famous for.

Sticky wins it!

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While the towers over the three shafts of the mine and the huge self-unloading ships that call to fill up with salt are impressive, the fantastic world people seldom see lies hidden below the waters of Lake Huron. Here, 1,700 feet underground, lies a maze of rooms and facilities more than two miles square, extending more than a mile out under Lake Huron.

A network of roads totals many more miles than those of the town of Goderich. There is none of the sense of claustrophobia of other types of mines because the ceilings of the tunnels are 43 feet high. Dozens of trucks and loaders drive the streets of this underground city. They were taken down piece by piece through the shafts and reassembled underground. If they need repairs, an underground repair shop does the job. All this has been built since the first shaft was sunk by Sifto Salt in 1959 but Goderich has a century-old history with salt. The salt in Goderich is part of a large deposit known as the Michigan Basin, a 350-million-year-old saucer-shaped deposit over parts of Ontario, Michigan and Ohio. Back in 1866, spurred on by dreams of riches from the oil discovery farther south at Petrolia, Samuel Platt drilled for oil on the edge of Goderich Ñ and struck salt (ironically in Petrolia they'd drilled for water and struck oil). Soon, in other Huron towns like Clinton, Seaforth and Blyth, salt wells were drilled, water pumped down to dissolve the rock salt, the brine was pumped to the surface and evaporators using cheap wood fuel, were used to create dry salt. The salt industry died everywhere but Goderich by 1880. Sifto also operates a salt well further east in Goderich producing table salt. Most of the rock salt from the mine is used for road salt or goes to the chemical industry. From a first small hole in the ground in 1959, the salt mine has grown to be one of the largest employers in Huron County with hundreds of employees. Stops along Lake Huron

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The History of Sifto Canada Inc.
Although he was prospecting for oil in 1866, Mr. Sam Platt's drilling rig hit paydirt of a different kind when it struck rock salt almost 1,000 feet beneath Goderich Harbour. The claim that he was only mildly surprised at the discovery is probably correct as native peoples of the area had earlier told him of the evidence of salt deposits throughout the region. His findings became the first recorded discovery of a salt bed in North America. By year's end, rock salt was being used as a source of brine for salt production.
Sam Platt proved to be a successful businessman when his company declared a 51 percent dividend the next years, the same year Canada became a nation.
Little did he realize, moreover, that his salt discovery was near the edge of a huge geological formation called the Michigan Salt Basin. His discovery initiated a salt rush. By late 1867, 12 independent salt wells were dotting the Maitland River valley down to its confluence with Goderich Harbour and Lake Huron. Salt fever had hit the area! San Platt had made salt, for centuries one of the world's most sought after commodities, synonymous with " the prettiest town in Canada."
His 1866 discovery, furthermore, distributed the seeds for the eventual creation of a major North American company destined to become, by the late 1990s, one of the world's largest suppliers of salt.

Although dazzling-white salt from Goderich outclassed the more famous English salt by winning first prize at the 1867 Paris Exhibition, mass production of salt was not actually begun at Goderich until 1880 while the site was being operated by a chemist, George Rice. The site became known as the "Rice Block." The production process was simple. Rows of some 100 heavy, open, cast iron kettles of 120 to 140 gallons each, of pumped brine, were set on furnaces dependent on wood for fire. This evaporation process produced a fine flake salt which as air-dried and then shipped in barrels made by coopers who worked on the site. As wood fuel in the area was consumed the cost escalated. The process was expensive.
Streamlining salt production was inevitable. Kettles were replaced by shallow steel pans 30 feet wide and 100 feet long. The final product was still coarse and the process was still expensive as imported coal for furnace heating replaced depleted wood sources.
By 1910, modernization at the Goderich solution mine turned to a vacuum pan process consisting of one vertical steel tank with internal heating tubes conducting steam. This operation produced granular salt crystals widely used for table salt. It was also cost-effective.
At a depth of 1,750 feet, the Sifto underworld, about one and one half miles wide, extends 2 miles into Lake Huron. The ceiling of the huge beehive complex average 45 feet in height. Thick pillars give the appearance of rooms that trucks travel through to carry rock salt to crushing and screening operations before it is hoisted to the surface in customized skips.

In 1919 the operation was purchased by banker, Charles Wurtele. The company was now called the Goderich Salt Company and under Wurtele's direction it became the largest industry in Huron County. It attracted the attention of E.P. Taylor who took control of the company and eventually it became a wholly owned subsidiary of Domtar Limited. The name Sifto was introduced in 1955.
Only since the late 1950s has salt actually been mined in the Goderich area. When it became apparent that rock salt was in a growth market, Sifto took action. A mining shaft was commenced in 1957 and completed in 1959. To meet the needs of municipalities requiring crushed rock salt for winter roads, in addition to domestic need for rock salt for water softeners, a second shaft became operational in 1968. A further increase in production was achieved when a third shaft was added in 1983. Today the mine complex employs more than 300 workers.
At present, Sifto Canada employs over 500 workers. In addition to its Goderich facilities, it operates Saskatchewan's Unity plant employing 80 workers. Its high-grade products service markets from northwestern Ontario to the Pacific coast. Sifto's production process in eastern Canada is at the Amherst, Nova Scotia plant employing 70 workers. Its vapour recompression process produces an unequaled salt purity in North America. History of Sifto Canada

most cool. We store a lot of natural gas in the old salt mines.

I looked around on a map of the Great Lakes to find a harbour that was facing west (sunset in the image) and took a stab at Goderich.

OK next.
http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/2023/example2sg4.jpg

Chateau Laurier? From a really different angle?

hey wait a minute... is this the supreme court building in Ottawa?

Leto is correct.
Here iis the, likely, more recognizable view (from the front):
http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/images_scc/popup/pi_4.jpg

You're on Leto.

holy shit. How did I do that?

Okay, next pic coming up.
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where is this:

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d1...o_2000/cow.jpg

Sussex, New Brunswick.
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Nope, i was wrong.

Ms. Claybelt the Cow
Township of Dymond, Ontario

game on Lucifer!

It was a bit easy wasn't it? Although, I first encountered Ms Claybelt when I was in New Liskeard, I didn't realize it is known as Dymond township.

Sorry guys, I was away for the weekend for a late Christmas with my family. Care to guess where I was:

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You went to Kingston.

That's the Martello Tower on the marina downtown.

damn, I knew I should have made it more obscure. Game on Leto!

hehehe... I spent many years in Kingston.

Looking for a picture.

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Here's one:

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d1...enchtoast2.jpg

I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest: Herbert, Saskatchewan.

Hey, I thought you were a water going kind of guy, not prairie savvy! Game on Lucifer. Maybe the word Herbert was a give away...

I am a watergoing kind of guy, and just to prove it, where's this:

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okay right back at you... setting response records here:

Halifax's Point Pleasant Park, with the memorial dedicated to members of the canadian navy who died during peace time service - the HMCS Bonaventure anchor memorial.

I pretty well confirmed it on google, so I'll throw up a new pic:

since Lucifer is a boating kinda guy, maybe he will know this place:

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d1...o_2000/ch2.jpg

I'm drawing a complete blank here, got a hint?

I'll add a pictorial hint (look at the background)

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d1...to_2000/ch.jpg

I got my seaman papers here (i think this is what they are called)

The old Kingston Post Office and Custom House.

yes... it is Lucifer's game at the moment...

oh, sorry

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Right province, wrong city

Allright, Sticky! Game on! Welcome back to what I was thinking was going to end up as the Leto and Lucifer game!

now that is one funky looking stadium (I assume it's a stadium?)

The Velodrome in Montreal? Viewed from atop the Olympic Stadium?

could this be an Vancouver 2010 venue?

Correct. It now currently houses the Biodome.

cool, I'll go find a picture. Incidentally, the last time I saw this view was when I took my wife, and son up on a tour of the Big O, on Sept Friday 13 1990 (91?). While at the top, looking down, a huge concret support beam fell off of the base of the tower of the Big O. When we came back down, we were told that we were the last tour allowed up due to liability issues. I have similar pics of the velodrome. Had no idea it was being used for non sports activities now.

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Originally Posted by Leto (Post 2609809)

Incidentally, the last time I saw this view was when I took my wife, and son up on a tour of the Big O, on Sept Friday 13 1990 (91?). While at the top, looking down, a huge concret support beam fell off of the base of the tower of the Big O. When we came back down, we were told that we were the last tour allowed up due to liability issues.

Wow you saw Montreal Olympic Stadium history as it happened. Cool.

Olympic ski jump facility from the Calgary Olympics.

Ohhh... too easy!

Game On Sticky (it was a thematic post)

Love those Canadian girls!

hint = it fits with the theme of the last few posts.

ya, I'm thinking that it's a rowing venue, for an Olympics, so it has to be the Montreal Olympics...

Just don't know where it it. I'll have to google it.

oaky.. Olympic Basin, Notre Dame Island

you got it.

Stanley Park's hollow tree gets the axe

Stanley Park's hollow tree gets the axe

One of Vancouver's oldest treasures will soon be cut down but its legacy as a tourist attraction will live on.

Stanley Park's iconic hollow tree will soon be cut down over fears it might topple.
(CBC)
On Monday evening, the Vancouver Park Board voted to cut down the hollow tree on Park Drive in Stanley Park.

The 13-metre-tall stump is at least 700 years old, but storm damage in recent years has caused its decomposing hollow trunk to tilt dangerously.

The trunk, which is 20 metres in circumference, is held up by cables, and the surrounding parking lot has been fenced off to keep the public from approaching while the park board investigated ways to permanently secure the tree.

Commissioner Allan de Genova said during the meeting the board had examined all options to save the tree, but public safety was the final concern.

"I just really wanted a few moments to see if there was perhaps another way we could expand on this and see where we're at. But, as the report indicates, the safety factor is the biggest concern here," said de Genova.

The hollow tree in Vancouver's Stanley Park has been a popular place to be photographed for generations.
(CBC)
The decision caused spectators at the meeting to heckle the board after the vote, with many saying other options should have been given more consideration.

Bruce MacDonald said the tree could be left as it is and given structural upgrades, and accused the board of not protecting the park.

"So they just say, 'OK, we're voting to tear her down.' They don't care," said MacDonald.

Commissioner Ian Robertson said it was a "very difficult decision for the board to make," but it had to act because the tree could fall and crush people.

All is not over for the iconic tree, which has become one of the most photographed in the world.

According to the park board plan, it will live on as a tourist attraction. After it is cut down, it will be placed on its side and split in two to make a tree tunnel for visitors.

ooh tricky.
Vancouver International Airport.

I almost said the Canadian Embassy in Washington D.C. which would technically be Canadian territory, correct? But the image is of the one in Vancouver. I believe that both versions of Spirit of Haida Gwaii are from the same mold.

aw crap, I didn't know there were two versions! The airport is right!

somebody must have a guess.

I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest Pier 21, Halifax.

hmmm.. I don't think it's Louisbourg, nor is it Quebec, or Fort York.... I don't think it's in the west, I suspect that cannons are useful against ships, more than infantry. Or are they?