He's Big in Canada. Above Superior. Yet Popular, Too.
"The Sleeping Giant" lies on the shore of Lake Superior in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
(Toronto National Post)
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Sunday, June 17, 2007
TORONTO -- Canadians have spoken: At the top of their list of "Seven Wonders of Canada" is a rock. A rock that some say is shaped like a reclining figure.
"The Sleeping Giant" of Thunder Bay, Ontario -- a low plateau with bumps that could resemble human features -- won the most votes last week in a country-wide contest sponsored by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., the national broadcaster.
The contest, intended to select natural or man-made features that are "spectacular," "amazing" and demonstrate "essential Canadian-ness," attracted more than 1 million votes in this country of 33 million.
"The Sleeping Giant," on the shore of Lake Superior, rates brief mention in most guidebooks and was not on the separate list of picks by a CBC panel of judges.
The popular voting included picks hardly exclusive to Canada: Niagara Falls and the Rocky Mountains, both shared with the United States, and the northern lights, seen in upper latitudes all around the Northern Hemisphere. The other choices for the top seven Canadian wonders were Nahanni National Park, a wild park in the Northwest Territories, and the Bay of Fundy and Cabot Trail in eastern Canada.
The Internet voting, which followed a series of radio shows on nominated places, provoked some online grumbling that used the word "embarrassment." Other nominations in the contest included hockey players, hockey rinks, the Tim Hortons restaurants (named after a hockey player) and Pamela Anderson, a Canadian.
