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    How can an irritable fox be directly tied to the modern Canadian economy?

    Question #123516. Asked by star_gazer. (Sep 14 11 3:09 PM)


    tweedle2

    		http://http-server.carleton.ca/~jmantler/pdfs/financial%20distress%20DSI.pdf

    A Dr.Fox involved in a paper looking at economy and its effect on families.

    Sep 16 11, 8:18 AM
    star_gazer

    		The answer that I am looking for is that in 1903, in Cobalt in northern Ontario, Fred La Rose threw a hammer at a fox that had entered his camp site. The hammer missed and hit a rock and showed a seam of silver. These silver mines eventually gave the Canadian economy $2 billion.

    http://www.cobaltmininglegacy.ca/

    Sep 16 11, 12:13 PM

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