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SOURCES – 10 wild but true stories from Canada’s past you’ve never heard

October 23, 2025 by Ash Kaushik

The following sources were consulted in the preparation of the article “10 wild but true stories from Canada’s past you’ve never heard.”

  1. Operation Habbakuk: The Iceberg Aircraft Carrier
  2. 1967 Shag Harbour UFO Sighting and Related Research
  3. Albert Johnson, “The Mad Trapper of Rat River”
  4. Chocolate Strike
  5. R. v. Vallières
  6. Previous nuclear incidents and accidents: COSMOS 954
  7. The Resettlement Program
  8. ‘Broken Arrow’: When the First U.S. Atomic Bomb Went Missing
  9. March 13, 1989, Geomagnetic Disturbance
  10. The fall and recovery of the Tagish Lake meteorite
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