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WINNIPEG, Manitoba, June 1 (UPI) -- About 700 people near the southeastern shore of Canada's Lake Manitoba were evacuated when high winds caused waves to swamp the shoreline, officials said.
MONTREAL, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- The centuries-old French-Canadian city of Montreal is asking residents to stop using fireplaces and wood stoves after the second smog alert this winter.
UPI Almanac for Friday, Aug. 1, 2008.
SYDNEY, Nova Scotia, March 20 (UPI) -- A Canadian ferry trapped in ice for two days with more than 200 people aboard was freed by an icebreaker off Nova Scotia Thursday, maritime officials said.
SYDNEY, Nova Scotia, March 19 (UPI) -- A Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker headed to the port of Sydney, Nova Scotia, Wednesday to help a ferry blocked by thick ice, Coast Guard officials said.
TALLAHASSEE , Fla., Aug. 11 (UPI) -- Seawater rushing through an underwater mountain range in the Atlantic is generating record turbulence levels, U.S. and French researchers said.
UPI almanac for Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2007.
LOS ANGELES, April 29 (UPI) -- Biographical writer Axel Madsen, who mostly worked with celebrities, has died of pancreatic cancer at age 76 at his home in Los Angeles.
MONTREAL, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- Julie Winnefred Bertrand of Montreal has died at the age of 115 after a month as the oldest woman in the world.
PARIS, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- The fashion world had a scare this week when design icon Yves St. Laurent collapsed on a Paris street.
