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RUBY RED JEWELS OF THE BOG

(PHOTOGRAPHY: SHUTTERSTOCK)

If you’re looking for a new experience this fall, why not head out to a cranberry farm? These hidden gems are sprinkled in a variety of areas across the country, but before you don a pair of hip waders, here’s a little bit of trivia about cranberry farming in Canada.

HISTORY/ORIGIN

Indigenous People people called the cranberry “atoca.” Settlers called it the “craneberry” because the flower looked like the head of a

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