Edit: Added info about Terry Fox and Magnetic Hill.
Ottawa - Parliament Building
Centennial Flame with shields of the 10 provinces and 2 territories
Terry Fox statue. Terry Fox was famous for the Marathon of Hope, a cross-Canada run to raise money for cancer research, which Fox ran with one prosthetic leg.
Montreal - Olympic Stadium
Inside Olympic Pool
Horsedrawn carriage in Montreal
Lobster sandwtich at MacDonalds
Home away from home for 7 days - The tour bus
Grand Falls in our first Maritime province, New Brunswick
Grand Falls
New Brunswick - Grand Falls - mushroom (no idea what it is)
Grand Falls - Recycling container
Beautiful Sunset just as we arrived at the hotel in New Brunswick
Legistlature for the province of New Brunswick
Magnetic Hill
Instructions for Magnetic Hills
What you see from the top of the hill. Our tour bus went down the slope, stopped at the bottom and the driver put the bus in neutral. The magnetic force of the hill, pulled us back to the top.
The secret to Magnetic Hill
Stories about a strange road where the wagon would run up on the horses heels when going uphill go back to the 1880's. In 1933 stories of cars rolling uphill without power peaked the curiosity of three newspaper reporters from the Saint John Telegraph Journal.
In August of 1933 they traveled to Moncton and spent hours trying every hill they came to in hopes of unraveling the mystery. After 5 hours of no success they stopped to stretch their legs on the way home and you guessed it. . . the car started to roll uphill. Slowly at first and then with gathering momentum the car climbed uphill without power. They spent a couple of hours retrying the hill and using all the equipment they had brought to discover the secret. They noticed the water on the side of the road also running uphill. That ruled out magnetic properties. They decided it must be an optical illusion, but how and why they didn't know.
Shortly after they published their article, people started to come out in droves to the site and test it for themselves. A young local girl had started a business at the top of the road selling ice cream. She soon saw the potential of Magnetic Hill and over the course of 20 years, Muriel Lutes began to develop it to become a major tourist attraction.
Magnetic Hill has been a top attraction in New Brunswick for over 100 years. Originally part of a provincial highway, Magnetic Hill was eventually sold to the City of Moncton and preserved as a tourist attraction while a bypass highway was built around it.
