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    Cape Spear

    Cape Spear, elev 75 m, most easterly point in N America (excluding Greenland), is located 6.7 km SE of the entrance to St John's harbour, Nfld. A rocky, windswept promontory of Precambrian formation, with a thin, sporadic cover

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    Cape St Mary

    Cape St Mary forms the southern boundary of St Mary's Bay in an area of Nova Scotia's northwestern coast known as the French Shore. Fishing is the principal activity in this region; the cape was once the site of the International Tuna Cup matches.

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    Cape St Mary's

    Cape St Mary's, elevation 105 m, on Newfoundland's AVALON PENINSULA, is the steep and spectacular terminus of the land separating ST MARY'S BAY and PLACENTIA BAY near rich fishing grounds. The site of a lighthouse since 1860, the

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    Cape Traverse

    Cape Traverse is a small peninsula along the southwestern shore of PEI on Northumberland Strait.

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    Cariboo Mountains

    The Cariboo Mountains is the most northern range making up the Columbia Mountains. 

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    Cascade Mountains

    Cascade Mountains, BC, are the north end of largely volcanic mountain ranges extending to California, 180-260 km east of the Pacific Ocean. There are no active volcanoes in BC like the US Cascades' Mount St Helens and others.

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    Cassiar District

    The Cassiar District lies in British Columbia's northwest corner; it historically encompasses the Stikine and Dease River watersheds and that of the upper Taku, NASS and Kechika.

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    Cassiar Mountains

    The Cassiar Mountains extend from the Yukon Territory 440 km southeast to the confluence of the Finlay and Fox rivers in north-central BC. Cassiar is thought to derive from KASKA, the name of a native group whose traditional territory lies in the mountains.

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    Cave

    Origins Lava tube caves, an important minor class, are formed by channelled outflow of molten lava in congealing flows. Sea caves most commonly result from erosion by waves.

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    Cedar Dunes Provincial Park

    Tucked into the westernmost corner of Prince Edward Island, Cedar Dunes Provincial Park (established 1962, 37 ha) has been developed around an historic lighthouse. Known as West Point, the site is the result of centuries of accretion of sand from a north to south coastal current.

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    Cedar Lake

    Cedar Lake, 1353 km2, 62.5 km long, elev 253 m, is located in west-central Manitoba, north of Lake WINNIPEGOSIS. The lake draws most of its waters from the huge SASKATCHEWAN RIVER drainage basin. Construction of an earthfill dam and 25.6 km of dikes in 1961-64 caused lake levels to rise 3.

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    Chaleur Bay

    Chaleur Bay, which lies between the Gaspé Peninsula, Québec, and northern New Brunswick, is the largest bay in the Gulf of St Lawrence. At its entrance lies Miscou Island.

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    Champlain Sea

    The Champlain Sea is a body of saline to brackish water 55,000 km2 that occupied the depressed land of the St. Lawrence Lowland between Quebec City and Brockville, Ontario, and extended up the Ottawa River Valley during the late glacial period 12,000 to 10,000 years ago (see Glaciation). The name was first used by American geologist C.H. Hitchcock in 1906.

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    Cheltenham Badlands

    The Cheltenham Badlands are a rock formation in Southern Ontario made of red-coloured ridges and gullies. They are located in the Town of Caledon within the Regional Municipality of Peel, Ontario, within a 36.6-hectare property of the same name owned by the Ontario Heritage Trust. The badlands are an exposed section of the Queenston Shale, a vast swath of shale rock that crosses Southern Ontario. Exposed through erosion caused by early farming practices, the badlands are a curious case of a natural wonder created through human activity.

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    Chesterfield Inlet

    Chesterfield Inlet is a narrow, fiordlike arm of the northwest coast of Hudson Bay that stretches 160 km inland to the Thelon River.

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