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The “pinhole” MacKinnon mentions is actually bigger than the comparative size of the Never Forgotten National Memorial . The pinhole is 0.004 square inches, the Cape Breton Highlands National Park is 235,000 acres, an acre is 43,560 square feet, a square foot is 144 square inches and a $20 bill is 15 sq inches. I’ll leave the math to you to prove my representation is incorrect.In consultation with Parks Canada, it was suggested the site for the NFNM be at Lakies Head, which is north of Ingonish.
Historica Canada discovered 80 per cent of Canadians wanted a veterans’ memorial, not a WAR memorial on Canadian soil just like the one they have in Washington, D.C. The monument in Washington is the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and is accompanied by the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument and the Korean War Memorial — all on The National Mall and Memorial Parks in Washington, D.C.
The geological uniqueness of the Green Cove site is much ballyhooed. It is one of many such headlands along the seaboard from Little Smokey to Jigging Cove and the trail to Neil’s Harbour. Green Cove is a part of Black Brook Granitic Suite which covers more than 20 per cent of the Cape Breton Highlands National Park. Green Cove was a fishing village from the 1850s to the 1950s as shown by A. Church’s map of 1864 and confirmed by local oral history.
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