For the past few nights I have been reading about the geography and terrain of Lanark County. Odd hobby I agree, but it is the basis of our area and how it formed. If you didn’t know, Lanark County used to be part of the Champlain Sea. There are not a lot of fossils in Lanark County, but it has been reported that whale bones were found in a few places. The remainder of a Humpback Whale was found near an empty pit at Welsh’s Station three miles north of Smiths Falls in 1883. The bones were found 30 feet below the surface. read- Whale Sightings Outside Smiths Falls– Part2
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The distance from Pakenham to Halifax NS is 620.87 miles or 999.19 Kilometres so how did a Beluga whale end up outside Pakenham?In 1906, the skull and part of the skeleton of a young Beluga were…
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