How's it going, eh?"
As Signal continues to celebrate geocaching around the world, our favorite frog will be visiting Canada to cache like a Canadian and celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary. As part of the celebration, you can earn the Canada Day 2017 souvenir!! We’re excited to join Canadians in celebrating their birthday this July, and we hope you’ll join us!
Join the members of the Big Sandy Area Geocachers as they celebrate Canada Day. We'll gather at the above coordinates from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm to share some food, geo-stories and trade trackables. Plus, you'll earn a cool souvenir for attending!!!
Here's 10 reasons why we love Canada in hopes that you’ll be just as inspired to celebrate the land of the maple leaf.
- Canada has over 45 National Parks, many of which support geocaching!
- According to the 2017 World Happiness Report, Canada is the 7th happiest country in the world.
- Canada has the most doughnut shops in the world per capita. Maybe this is why they are so happy?
- There are over 230,000 active geocaches in Canada.
- Canada is home to the only town in the world with not just one but two exclamation points in its name: Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!
- Over 200,000 pancakes are served during the Calgary Stampede. Perfect to go with all of the pure Canadian maple syrup, after all, Quebec is the top producer of maple syrup in the world.
- Nunavut in northern Canada once had license plates in the shape of a polar bear.
- The oldest cache in Canada was placed less than a month after geocaching began. GCBBA is in beautiful Nova Scotia and has over 500 Favorite points!
- The world’s first UFO landing pad was built in 1967 in St. Paul, Alberta.
- Canada has a physics lab located 2 kilometers underground! It is the world’s second-deepest underground lab facility.
