Eleventh

Posted on 04 January 2018 by Isabel Gibson

On the 11th day of Christmas
Canada gave to me
Many lovely places
Great singers singing
Brave heroes striving
Real smart inventors
Artistic creators
Writers a-writing
High sugar treats
Professionals
Athletic stars
Far northern sites
And a nation, bounded by seas.

Many Lovely Places

Intertwined rivers and ponds on Mackenzie Delta, seen from air

Mackenzie Delta

Gros Morne mountain on horizon; spruce forest in foreground.

Gros Morne Mountain

View of glacier-blue lake with hill covered in spruce trees in background

Lake O’Hara, photo by Marjorie Gibson

Silhouetted tree in foreground; Horseshoe Falls in background.

Horseshoe Falls

Seawall curving to the left, framing sea and forest. and

Shoreline at archaelogical site

L’Anse aux Meadows

Two people in parkas standing barefoot in Arctic Ocean.

Blue sky above, tall spruce in background, boggy swamp in mid- and foreground

Canadian Shield

Close-up of flowers in concrete planter with harbour in background.

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