From arena to field house, winning is the only thing.
A WORTHY DODGE
The University of Alberta in Edmonton may have an obsession when it comes to dodgeball. In 2011, the school set a record when 2,012 players pelted each other with balls in what was declared the largest dodgeball game in history. But Alberta only wore the crown for a short time.
Seven months later, the University of California, Irvine, had 4,000 players winging balls at each other. UA felt the sting of defeat. On February 3, 2012, in front of representatives from Guinness World Records, the school gathered 4,979 students, staff, and alumni to clobber each other in the Butterdome—setting the new world record …again.
AN UNFORGETTABLE WORKOUT
In January 2008 at about 10 p.m., 17-year-old Matthew Giguere took a break from working out at the fitness center in Tatamagouche to get some fresh air. Giguere, who was visiting from Sorel-Tracy, Quebec, looked out across the bay and spotted what he thought was a brightly lit ship.
He didn’t think much about it, beyond that it was cool to see a three-masted ship all lit up at night. He described it as bright white and gold. He tried to get a young woman in the gym to come take a look at the unique sight, but she just continued with her workout. Giguere admired the vessel for a few minutes and went back into the gym to exercise. When he came out later, the ship was gone. When he learned of the ghost ship legend, he realized he had seen the fabled ship.
In the spring of 2012, a real ghost ship drifted off the coast of western Canada. An empty Japanese fishing boat, which had been swept away from a Japanese coastal town during the tsunami of 2011, was spotted bobbing in the waters near the Queen Charlotte Islands. The magnitude 9.0 earthquake off Japan’s northeast coast on March 11, 2011, triggered a nearly 23-meter (75-foot) wall of water that flattened waterfront towns, killing 16,000.
A decommissioned DC-13 airplane serves as the world’s largest weathervane in Whitehorse, Yukon.