CBC radio specials48:58Really big things
On the long weekend of May, the official start of the summer travel season and Kyler Zeleny, a fourth -generation sausage manufacturer in the rural Alberta area, hopes to see many more tourists rolling to see a giant Ukrainian Kielbasa.
The massive flesh monument in the city of Mundare, 80 kilometers east of Edmonton, was a creation of the grandfather of Zeleny, Edward Stawnichy.
“The thought was that if we are doing sausages and we have a group of Ukrainians here, let’s erect a Ukrainian sausage, a Kielbasa,” says Zeleny, now the manager of the Manchicha Mundare of Stawnichy sausage.
The Kielbasa, which rose in April 2001, measures 12.8 meters, approximately 42 feet, high.
It is said that the family’s beneficial foundation paid $ 120,000 for the red fiberglass structure that is in a park not far from the meat processing plant.
Zeleny says that the largest link (life game) for the 66 -year -old family business has helped the company grow. It now has 80 products in more than 300 stores.
He is proud of sausage sculpture.
“There is something in small villages that support the creation of really kitsch ideas as a way of bringing people to cities,” says Zeleny.
Craig Glenday, editor in chief of Guinness World Records, surrounds the globe that weighs and measures great things.
Glenday said Alberta has about 40 claims of the world’s greatest things, according to the website great attractions on the Canadian road. The rest of the country is dotted with giant structures that include a violin, a canoe shovel, a nickel, an ax, a lot of animals and giant food.
“It’s a really fascinating collection,” said Glenday, based in London.
He says that the attractions on the road grew along with the automobile culture of North America and finding these destinations out of time is half of the fun.
“It’s a strange emotion, isn’t that when you drive and see something in the distance and think, ‘What is that?'” Says Glenday. “It is intriguing and adrenaline is rushed, it is quite exciting.”
Glenday said Guinness World recently certified the world’s greatest dream receiver. It hangs from a massive wood frame in the Powwow Grounds in Rama First Nation, not far from Orillia, Ontario.
A dream project
Its creator, Bob Williams, 61, spent more than a year planning and elaborating the structure, which weighs 900 kilograms (1,985 pounds) and is approximately 13 meters (42 feet) in diameter.
Williams has been building dream receptors during half of his life, but never something on this scale.
To be a traditional dream receptor of the Chippewa territory, metal could not be used, Williams said. Therefore, it is made of 2,100 meters of rope, 1,500 meters of tendons and flexible trees collected from the bush near his home.
“I choose those forests for a reason, because they have a lot of meaning for our culture: Ash and Willow, we work hard with them,” Williams said.
Raising creation instead was a bit like driving “a great anaconda,” he said.
“It was terrifying, I tell you. I didn’t realize how flexible the dream receiver was. Raising it from the ground, like 300 people,” says Williams.
The record of the largest dream receiver was prostally held by Lithuania at 10 meters in diameter.
But because the dream receptors were created in North America by the Ojibwe people, Williams wanted the world’s largest to be located in Canada.
“I wanted that to happen in branch.”
Darryl Lem has not seen Catcher Dream, but the recent retiree and motorcyclist enthusiast has seen more than a few giant reference points while traveling along the roads.
“There is the happy rock in Gladstone, Man., A great Viking in Winnipeg Beach and the Wawa goose,” said the 59 -year -old man, who has been having great views for about seven years of tours.
“We did Route 66 last year and saw everything from Big Muffler Man and all kinds of attractions,” said Lem.
He considers it a type of desire list.
“Who does not want to mount a couple of thousands of kilometers to see the largest thread ball and get ice cream?”
