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What is Saint John
Is the city where the reversing falls are located
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Who is John Steinbeck
This author's most popular work was written over one year uninterrupted, using 25 dozen pencils and 36 reams of paper
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What is a spyglass
A small handled telescope
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Who is Kim Campbell
The only female Canadian Prime Minister
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Who is Rosalynn Carter
The name of his wife
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What is Saint Stephen
Is the best city for tasty chocolaty trests, and the home of the ganong chocolate factory
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Who William Faulkner
This author of "As I lay dying" was rejected from joining th United States Army because he was too short
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What is crispy
Having a pleasingly firm, dry, and brittle surface or texture
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Who Lester Pearson
The prime minister who played a key role in the resolution of the Suez Crisis
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What is Amazing Grace
Known as his favourite hymn
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What is the miramichi
Meaning Godly little river
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Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald
The second cousin three times removed of Francis Scott Key, author of The Star-Spangled Banner.
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What is waspy
Characteristic of or relating to upper- or middle-class American white Protestants.
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Who Justin Trudeau
Previously an aspiring proffessional boxer and second youngest prime minister
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What is be born in a hospital
The fist US president to do this
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What is the Bay of Fundy
The body of water in which the highest tides in the world were recorded
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Who is Herman Melville
Another giant of nineteenth-century American fiction, Nathaniel Hawthorne – perhaps best known for his novel about adultery, The Scarlet Letter – lived next door to this American novelist
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What is raspy
Hoarse or harsh-sounding
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Who Is Robert Borden
Refused three times to be appointed to be appointed to the senate by Meighen, followed by King, then by Bennett.
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What is a grammy
Has been nominated for nine of these awards and won three
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What is the Hopewell Rocks
Sometimes referred to as "The flower pots"
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Who is Mark Twain
The author who was born and died on days when Haley's comet was visible from earth.
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What is wispy
Fine; feathery.
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Who is Sir Wildred Laurier
Tries to resign as Liberal party leader at least five times during his nine years as Leader of the Opposition.
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What is the Camp David Accords
One of teh highites of his presidency, a peace reaty between israel and Egypt known as this
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