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Saugeen Nation

First Nations Wiki

Posted by garym on January 15, 2008 - 9:59pm

By way of the Research Buzz website, a tip to NativeWiki.org, a new community information resource for all things First Nations ...

"Though it's much smaller than Wikipedia (something over 1100 pages) in some respects it's much more detailed. Not only Robert Conley, but there's an extensive section on Native American authors, from Abenaki authors to Pueblo authors. Sometimes the entries seem very similar to Wikipedia (Simon Ortiz) while sometimes there's a NativeWiki entry where there's no Wikipedia entry at all (Edgar Gabriel Silex)."

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The Wonder of Saugeen

Posted by garym on May 27, 2007 - 9:40am

Inspired by international efforts to refine the list of World Wonders, the CBC is on the hunt for the Seven Wonders of Canada, and the list of nominees has been whittled down to include man-mades like the CN-Tower, the Museum of Civilization, the Vimy Memorial and Montreal Bagels, and natural spectaculars like Mt Thor, Haida Gwaii and Manitoulin.

And there, midst the latter group, a familiar old friend, and easily the only Wonder of the World known to go great with ice cream ...

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The Longest Sandfest

Posted by garym on August 6, 2005 - 11:12pm

The Sauble Lions' Street Dance, Huron Feathers' ice-cream, watermelon, licorice and tricycle races (10th year!) plus the Sauble Daycare Baby Pageant (31st year!!) and your best chance to dunk Mark Wunderlich ...

and, of course, acres of amazing sand sculptures.

This year, Sauble Sandfest was not only a whole day of of beach-fun, but stretching all the full 14K from south Saugeen across into South Bruce Peninsula up to the North Beach, this is not only a unique cross-cultural beach party, but Sandfest also has to be one of the geographically longest beach festivals in the world!

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