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Sleeping Giant wins popular vote
Doesn’t make the cut for 7 Wonders of Canada
The Sleeping Giant in Thunder Bay,
Ontario, won the popular vote in the CBC’s Seven Wonders of Canada
campaign by a wide margin. But the three judges, who had to weight
several criteria, didn’t name it among the final seven.
The result has upset people in Thunder Bay, fueling a controversy.
The Sleeping Giant won the public vote by
a wide margin, with 177,305, followed by Niagara Falls (Ontario) with
81,818, the Bay of Fundy with 67,670, Nahanni National Park (Northwest
Territories) with 64,920, the northern lights (northern Canada) with
61,417, the Rockies with 55,630 and the Cabot Trail (Nova Scotia) with
44,073, according to the CBC News.
After 25,000 nominations were pared to 52,
Canadians voted online for their top seven choices, and that’s where
Sleeping Giant came out on top. But the CBC’s Seven Wonders of Canada,
as decided by the judges, are Niagara Falls, Halifax’s Pier 21, Old
Quebec City, the Rockies, prairie skies, the igloo and the canoe.
The judges – author and columnist Roy
MacGregor, singer Ra McGuire (of the band Trooper) and Roberta
Jamieson, CEO of the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation –
weighed the popular vote and five criteria. The wonders need to possess
essential “Canadian-ness” (historically significant, character-filled,
valued); there is originality and uniqueness; they must be a
spectacular physical site or amazing human creation; and they have an
ability to inspire.
Finally, the final seven had to represent diversity in both location and type of wonder.
The Sleeping Giant is part of the Sibley Peninsula and is in the shape of a sleeping person.
At www.cbc.ca/sevenwonders, you’ll find
the wonders, the voting results and other details. For instance, in a
separate list of provincial wonders, the Seven Wonders of Ontario
include the Indian pictograph rocks in Lake Superior Provincial Park,
north of Sault Ste. Marie.
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