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BICROFT
One potential interviewee for the township of Bicroft is Bill Howe. Bicroft’s
main village site is Cardiff. The areas of interest in Cardiff are listed below with a brief
history of each site:
Cardiff
• Fancy Daylilies Studio 14 Cross Road, Paudash Cardiff, Bicroft Floral Photography
• The section of Ontario where Paudash Lake is located is part of what is known as
the Canadian Shield. During the last Ice age, the glaciers which covered the area
removed over a 1.6 km (0.99 mi) deep layer of soil, scraping the surface of the Earth
down to ancient sedimentary deposits, now heavily metamorphosised, as well as
the original bedrock (which is the crust of the Earth created during the Precambrian
era, some 4.5 billion years ago, when the planet cooled from a molten mass). (The
only area outside of the Canadian Shield, where the original bedrock of planet Earth
is exposed in North America, is at the bottom of the Grand Canyon (Paudash 2010).
• Close proximity to Silent Lake Provincial Park
• Cardiff Dragon Fly Erected in 1998. Made from recycled plastic, copper roofing
material and an old water tank for the head. It is probably the largest Dragonfly in
Canada with its 16-foot wingspan, a unique sight on Highway 118 at the Cardiff
village entrance, as noted on the Municipality’s webpage.
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