TY - BOOK TI - Canada's incredible coasts SN - 870448293 AV - F 1017 .C16 1991 PY - 1991/// CY - Washington, D.C. PB - The National Geographic Society KW - Costs KW - Canada N2 - a massive French fortress that guarded the Gulf of St. Lawrence in the 1700s; a trading post built at the edge of a wilderness in the style of a 16th -century Norman manor. Included are six maps and more than a hundred photographs; Discusses Canada, the second largest country in the world after Soviet Union, possesses the longest coastline, tracing islands and edging the mainland for some 150,000 miles. This vast sweep of shore meets the sea in wonderfully varied ways. Provides significant events in history: the site of a Viking colony inhabited by Norsemen almost a thousand years ago ER -