abstract:Mary River is located on Baffin Island about northwest of Iqaluit, the capital of Nunavut, and about southwest of Pond Inlet. It is home to iron ore deposits discovered in 1962 by Murray Edmund Watts and Ron Sheardown.
Inside the 592 rooms and 19 suites, guests are treated to unending views of downtown, the Mary Queen of the World Cathedral, the Saint Lawrence river and Mount Royal, the mountain that gave the city its name.
If you drive almost anywhere in Danville, Virginia around Christmastime, you can see a 28-foot-high metal bust of the Virgin Mary and the baby Jesus atop the sprawling red-brick Dan River mill.