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Grad Tags Across Canada

Friday, 16th September 2011 by

The final year of school in every country comes with many ceremonies and traditions. In Canada, one of those traditions is to celebrate the supremacy of your graduating class over all others by spray painting your ‘grad’ year over anything and everything.

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The final year of school in every country comes with many ceremonies and traditions. In Canada, one of those traditions is to celebrate the supremacy of your graduating class over all others by spray painting your ‘grad’ year over anything and everything.

Life is a Carnival

Nothing says summer like a trip down the midway at the local fairground when the carnival comes to town. Games, rides, food, creepy carnies missing various portions of their extremities – all of them a ritual for millions of fair-goers each year. Join us as we travel the world in search of amusement…

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The Morganza Spillway is a flood management system on the Mississippi River in Louisiana, intended to protect the cities of…

Roadside Mascots of Manitoba

Few places have taken to heart the concept of the ‘roadside attraction’ like the Canadian province of Manitoba, where dozens of quirky and wacky monuments to local icons dot the prairie landscape.

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