LAKE LOUISE - CANADA

 

  1st July - Canada Day  

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 LAKE LOUISE - CANADA 

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 Lake Louise is one of the most photographed sites in Canada, and possibly the world.
In the busy summer months, up to 15,000 people a day visit it's shore.

Fine rock dust, produced by massive glaciers rubbing against the bedrock, stay suspended in the water.
This reflects the light, creating the gorgeous turquoise colours that Lake Louise is famously known for.

 Like most of the lakes in the Rocky Mountains, Lake Louise is not a lake you would want to swim in.
The temperature of the water rarely gets above 5C. (41F.)

The water is so frigid, that the 'Lake Louise Polar Bear Dip' is held during the Canada Day Celebrations every 1st July!!

 Lake Louise is actually the third name this stunning lake, has had.
It was first named Ho-Run-Num-Nay, meaning lake of little fishes, by the Stoney First Nations people, who were the first inhabitants of the area.

 In 1882 a Stoney First Nations person, led a Canadian railway worker named Tom Wilson to the lake.
He then named it Emerald Lake.

Two years later it was renamed Lake Louise, after Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, the daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.

Princess Louise was married to the Marquis of Lorne, who was the Governor General of Canada, from 1878-1883.

 Happy Canada Day from The Tudor Intruders!! 

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