Saturday started with the Museum of Civilization. It’s a huge museum and it needs more than a day to see it all. So we focused on the Canadian history, starting with a Indian village, the way it used to be before the white people took over their land. This happened in the southern parts as well as in the northern parts, where the Inuit lived in and survived the extremely cold climate. Very interesting to learn, than most expeditions into the North needed the help and knowledge of the Inuit to survived the winters there, to find food and suitable clothes.
The Canadien history is one of exploitation. The first European (apart from the Vikings) came around 1520, because they found in around Newfoundland such an abundance of fish. The fish was dried, salted and brought to Europe. Later it was the timber, Europe needed huge quantities of timber to build itself, it battleships and railways. Then came the age of the grain, after Canada introduced Ukrainian wheat varieties here, it was possible to grow it in the very short vegetation period they had here in the prairies. Then came the oil, which still today is the big hope of many provinces to get money into the province. What will be next……., it might be clean drinking water.
The museum was so interesting, that we did not watch the time. When we finally left it was almost 4 pm, but we decided to leave anyway. This was a pretty bad decision!
After 40 km we started to worry about a place to stay, but in vain! At the end we went into a restaurant to ask. Wendy a very helpful lady, having dinner there, tried to find something close by, but the only thing available was at the airport, 20 km back the road we came from. So we had to bike back in the dark, but at least we had a place to stay. Wendy even offered to bring us there, she said her husband is a fanatic bikes and she knows about the dangers driving in the dark. Very nice, isn’t it!
The Canadien history is one of exploitation. The first European (apart from the Vikings) came around 1520, because they found in around Newfoundland such an abundance of fish. The fish was dried, salted and brought to Europe. Later it was the timber, Europe needed huge quantities of timber to build itself, it battleships and railways. Then came the age of the grain, after Canada introduced Ukrainian wheat varieties here, it was possible to grow it in the very short vegetation period they had here in the prairies. Then came the oil, which still today is the big hope of many provinces to get money into the province. What will be next……., it might be clean drinking water.
The museum was so interesting, that we did not watch the time. When we finally left it was almost 4 pm, but we decided to leave anyway. This was a pretty bad decision!
After 40 km we started to worry about a place to stay, but in vain! At the end we went into a restaurant to ask. Wendy a very helpful lady, having dinner there, tried to find something close by, but the only thing available was at the airport, 20 km back the road we came from. So we had to bike back in the dark, but at least we had a place to stay. Wendy even offered to bring us there, she said her husband is a fanatic bikes and she knows about the dangers driving in the dark. Very nice, isn’t it!
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| Great hall with indian sculpturs |
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| Old village replica in the museum |
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