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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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    Chignecto Bay

    Chignecto Bay, northeastern arm of the Bay of Fundy. The name comes from the Indigenous word sigunikt, usually said to mean "foot cloth," perhaps from a Mi'kmaq legend. The area around present-day Sackville, NB, was first settled by Acadians in 1671 and by Yorkshire Methodists about 100 years later. 

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    Chilkoot Pass

    Chilkoot Pass, elevation 1,067 m, is situated on the British Columbia-Alaska border.

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    Chilkoot Trail

    Today the trail has been somewhat improved and restored by US and Canadian park officials and offers designated campsites and other amenities. However, for the some 2000 people yearly who seek its adventure, it still represents a challenging 4-5 day hike.

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    Churchill Falls

    The project was undertaken by a subsidiary of British Newfoundland Corp Ltd (Brinco), and was at the time the largest civil engineering project ever undertaken in North America. Eighty strategically placed dikes pooled the vast waters of the Labrador Plateau in the Smallwood Reservoir.

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    Chute Montmorency

    Chute Montmorency, located 13 km east of Québec City at the mouth of Rivière Montmorency where it empties into the St Lawrence River, is the highest waterfall in the province of Québec and the eighth-highest in Canada.

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    Clayoquot Sound

    Clayoquot Sound is a dramatically varied inlet of the Pacific Ocean nearly 100 km wide on the west coast of Vancouver Island (estimated area, water 784.25 km2; land including freshwater 2715.75 km2 ). Clayoquot ("clah quat") Sound takes in the highly scenic islands and mainland drainages from Quisitis Point northwest to Escalante Point. Population is concentrated at Tofino, a fishing, tourism and wilderness recreation centre at the terminus of Highway 4. Most Indigenous communities are accessible only by air or water.

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    Clearwater River

    Clearwater River, 280 km long, rises in Patterson, Forest and Lloyd lakes in northwest Saskatchewan, flows southeast to Careen Lake and abruptly turns west to join the ATHABASCA RIVER at Fort McMurray, Alberta.

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    Coast Mountains

    The Coast Mountains are a continuous mountain chain extending from the Fraser Lowlands near Vancouver, 1,600 km north into the Yukon.

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    Coats Island

    Coats Island, Nunavut, 5,498 km2, is one of several islands that guard the northern entrance to Hudson Bay. Known originally as Cary Swan Nest, a name still applied to its southeast point, it received its modern name from William Coats, a sea captain who made many voyages into the bay for the Hudson's Bay Company between 1727 and 1751.

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    Columbia Icefield

    The Columbia Icefield is a mass of ice covering a high plateau between Mount Columbia (3747 m), the highest point in Alberta, and Mount Athabasca (3491 m), located between Banff and Jasper national parks, along the BC-Alberta border.

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    Columbia Mountains

    Columbia Mountains are a block of mountains 608 km long and 256 km wide that dominate the landscape of southeastern BC. 

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    Columbia River

    The Columbia River runs from the southeast corner of British Columbia through Washington and Oregon states to the Pacific Ocean.

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