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πŸ”— Gimli Glider

πŸ”— Aviation πŸ”— Disaster management πŸ”— Aviation/Aviation accident project πŸ”— Canada πŸ”— Aviation/aircraft project πŸ”— Aviation/gliding project πŸ”— Canada/History of Canada πŸ”— Canada/Manitoba

Air Canada FlightΒ 143 was a Canadian scheduled domestic passenger flight between Montreal and Edmonton that ran out of fuel on JulyΒ 23, 1983, at an altitude of 41,000 feet (12,000Β m), midway through the flight. The crew was able to glide the Boeing 767 aircraft safely to an emergency landing at a former Royal Canadian Air Force base in Gimli, Manitoba, that had been turned into a motor racing track. This unusual aviation incident earned the aircraft the nickname "Gimli Glider".

The subsequent investigation revealed that a combination of company failures, human errors and confusion over unit measures had led to the aircraft being refuelled with insufficient fuel for the planned flight.

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πŸ”— 1700 Cascadia Earthquake

πŸ”— United States πŸ”— California πŸ”— Oregon πŸ”— Canada πŸ”— Canada/British Columbia πŸ”— United States/Washington πŸ”— Canada/History of Canada πŸ”— Canada/Geography of Canada πŸ”— Cascadia πŸ”— Earthquakes

The 1700 Cascadia earthquake occurred along the Cascadia subduction zone on January 26, 1700 with an estimated moment magnitude of 8.7–9.2. The megathrust earthquake involved the Juan de Fuca Plate from mid-Vancouver Island, south along the Pacific Northwest coast as far as northern California. The length of the fault rupture was about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles), with an average slip of 20 meters (66Β ft).

The earthquake caused a tsunami which struck the west coast of North America and the coast of Japan.

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πŸ”— High Arctic relocation

πŸ”— Canada πŸ”— Canada/History of Canada πŸ”— Canada/Geography of Canada πŸ”— Canada/Canadian Territories

The High Arctic relocation (French: La dΓ©localisation du Haut-Arctique, Inuktitut syllabics: α–α‘¦α‘Žα’ƒα‘α’₯ᐅᑦᑕ ᓅᑕᐅᓂᖏᑦ Inuktitut: Quttiktumut nuutauningit) took place during the Cold War in the 1950s, when 92 Inuit were moved by the Government of Canada to the High Arctic.

The relocation has been a source of controversy: on one hand being described as a humanitarian gesture to save the lives of starving indigenous people and enable them to continue a subsistence lifestyle; and on the other hand, said to be a forced migration instigated by the federal government to assert its sovereignty in the Far North by the use of "human flagpoles", in light of both the Cold War and the disputed territorial claims to the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Both sides acknowledge that the relocated Inuit were not given sufficient support to prevent extreme privation during their first years after the move. The story was the subject of a book called The Long Exile, published by Melanie McGrath in 2006.

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πŸ”— Juan de Fuca

πŸ”— Biography πŸ”— Canada πŸ”— Greece πŸ”— Canada/British Columbia πŸ”— Canada/History of Canada

Ioannis Phokas (Greek: Ἰωάννης Φωκᾢς), better known by the Spanish translation of his name, Juan de Fuca (born 1536 on the Ionian island of Cefalonia; died there 1602), was a Greek maritime pilot in the service of the King of Spain, Philip II. He is best known for his claim to have explored the Strait of AniΓ‘n, now known as the Strait of Juan de Fuca, between Vancouver Island (now part of British Columbia, Canada) and the Olympic Peninsula (northwestern Washington state, United States).

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