There are big things on the landscape across Canada. We have a lot of novelty structures along our long, long road system. Maybe Big Nickel in Sudbury, Ontario is one of the most famous. Who knows the most famous of the big things - Big Nickel, Giant Lobster, Wawa Goose, The Big Apple, Huge Hockey and so on. Maybe there's too many to choose.
There's a website dedicated to Canada's big things, it is full of click bait advertisements, so don't go there.
I guess towns have to think of something to draw in tourists and this seems to work. The editor-in-chief of Guinness World Records, Craig Glenday, circles the globe weighing and measuring big things. You can read more about him and Canada's big things in the CBC article on the topic HERE.
I agree with his interest and excitement for bit things. It is fun to come upon something giant by the road. You know someone created it for you to see. And when I think of the big things that I take for granted - we've had Gerry the Giraffe on St. Paul Street West in St. Catharines since I can remember - many decades. And there's the bronze elephants at the antique store on the South Service Road in Beamsville - they change position increase and decrease in number every so often.
And the biggest clock of them all in Niagara? The grand Floral Clock on the Niagara Parkway? Now that's a big clock.
This is one of the Beamsville elephants. And an abstract after that.
