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Lamèque Island and Miscou Island separate Chaleur Bay from the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Miscou Island is from the Mi'kmaq 'Susqu,' meaning "low land" or "boggy marsh". "It forms an admirable descriptive name, for the most striking fact about the physical geography of Miscou is the prevalence of open bogs..." (Ganong) [1] The Miscou Channel is ...
On May 1, 1871, the new Dominion of Canada established the Meteorological Service of Canada by providing a $5000 grant to Professor G. T. Kingston of the University of Toronto to establish a network of weather observations. This information was collected and made available to the public from 1877 onwards.
Miscou Island Lighthouse is an 24.3-metre (80 ft)-tall landfall lighthouse located on the North-Eastern tip of Miscou Island, at the entrance of the Chaleur Bay. It was built in 1856 [3] and currently in use by the Canadian Coast Guard who owns the lighthouse, the land it is on, and also maintains it. It was built due to the shipwrecks that ...
The advent of numerical weather prediction in the early 1960s changed the forecasting system in Canada to one of large regional forecast centres, called "Weather Centrals", with local support offices called "Weather Offices". For the Canadian prairie provinces and the arctic territories, the Prairie Weather Central was established in Winnipeg ...
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Miscou Island / Île de Miscou had a population of 551 living in 269 of its 337 total private dwellings, a change of 4% from its 2016 population of 530.
As much as Ward’s journey to get to this point has been a personal one, with the quarterback betting on himself and going from a zero-star recruit out of high school to one of the top players in ...
The following tables show the average maximum and minimum temperatures of Canada of various cities across Canada, based on the climate period from 1981 to 2010 for the months of January and July (generally the lowest and highest average temperature months, but not in every case).
Get the Mikindani, Mtwara local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.