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In celebration of Canada’s 150th birthday, the Citizen is rolling out one fact each day for 150 days until July 1, highlighting the odd, the fascinating and the important bits of Ottawa history you might not know about.
The biggest pickle in Ottawa? Easily the Mer Bleue, in the eastern Greenbelt. Mer Bleue is about 34 square kilometres and holds peat up to six metres deep. Estimates of its age range from 7,700 to 8,500 years. Because bogs like this are so acidic, bacteria can’t survive and plants from long ago don’t decompose. The plants stay effectively pickled for thousands of years, and peat bogs actually form dense-packed mounds above the surrounding land as they accumulate more dead plants. You also might find the odd bomb crater still preserved, from Second World War practice.
— Tom Spears
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The biggest pickle in Ottawa? Easily the Mer Bleue, in the eastern Greenbelt. Mer Bleue is about 34 square kilometres and holds peat up to six metres deep. Estimates of its age range from 7,700 to 8,500 years. Because bogs like this are so acidic, bacteria can’t survive and plants from long ago don’t decompose. The plants stay effectively pickled for thousands of years, and peat bogs actually form dense-packed mounds above the surrounding land as they accumulate more dead plants. You also might find the odd bomb crater still preserved, from Second World War practice.
— Tom Spears
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