Leka on the shores of Lake Nipissing, North Bay, ON
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Leka at "Gateway to the North", North Bay, ON
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Leka outside of Sudbury, ON -- the smokestack is for one of the world's largest nickel mines. Leka is happy to be here in 2005 and not in 1975, when the entire surrounding area was so polluted it looked like a moonscape.
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fall colours (Leka took this one)
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Leka and trans-canada highway sign
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Leka's first camping trip. (Rabbit Blanket Lake Provincial Park, ON)
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Leka on the north shore of Lake Superior, ON
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Leka and the Wawa goose (Wawa, ON)
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Leka tries to make friends with the Wawa goose (it was not very responsive)
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Leka and the Terry Fox Monument, outside Thunder Bay, ON (Terry Fox, who had lost one of his legs to cancer, tried to run across Canada in 1980 to raise money for cancer research. The cancer spread and he had to stop in Thunder Bay and died soon afterwards, but every September in Canada there are 10K runs named after him that continue to raise money).
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Leka at the entrance to the Arctic watershed near Upsala, ON
(unfortunately we didn't stay long enough for her to turn into a white arctic weasel).
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Leka with some unlucky rodent friends in the fur trade section of Lake of the Woods Museum, Lake of the Woods, ON
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Leka leaves Ontario and enters Manitoba.
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Leka tries to make friends with demon cat (Prudence), Winnipeg, MB
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Leka and one of the "Bears on Broadway" in downtown Winnipeg, MB.
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Daredevil Leka rides without a helmet.
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Leka at historic Upper Fort Garry, Winnipeg, MB
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Leka with some more unfortunate stuffed friends -- this time at Fort Garry, Winnipeg, MB. Outside this building, about 10,000 Canada geese were landing on a pond to rest on their way south. Leka had to stay inside though because they don't allow weasels in the vicinity of migrating birds.
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Leka gets a bit too close.
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Oddly enough, Leka's favourite animal appears to be a polar bear. That's probably because she has only seen them when they are either stuffed or made of cement.
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Celebrity Stalker Leka poses on the set of Corner Gas, which
partially made up for her failing to get a photo op with Brad Pitt in Winnipeg (he was in town filming a movie). (Corner Gas is the only funny Canadian sitcom in my living memory). This is the only photo of Leka in Saskatchewan (the rest of the day looked like ...
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Leka poses with Trans-Canada highway sign and her first view of the Rockies (outskirts of Calgary, AB).
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Leka plays in the snow in Banff National Park, AB
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Leka at Lake Louise, Banff National Park, AB
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Leka poses with the obnoxious sign at the entrance to her keeper's home province of BC.
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