The Don McLean Stones

The Fanshawe Stones that inspired Canadian Pie

These amazing rocks, Canada’s answer to Stonehenge, and almost as monumental, can be found in Fanshawe Park, London, Canada. Of course their real name is The Fanshawe Stones, but they have been known as The Don McLean Stones ever since Don mentioned them in his number one hit record Canadian Pie. (A song which he later re-recorded as the much inferior, or so many of his Canadian fans say, American Pie.)*

But how did they get there? Nobody knows for sure. Some say they are the remains of a meteorite that crashed into the park thousands of years ago. Some say they are even older, brought by the Algonquin as they migrated north from the banks of Lake Eyrie to the edges of Lake Huron. And equally mysterious is the question - why are they here? Were they, in prehistoric times, worshipped as gods? Did ancient tribes use them to tell the time? Do they, in fact, contain one of the Earth’s greatest secrets – the key to how life on earth began? We will probably never know for sure.

*Bye, bye, Canadian Pie. I tried to climb the Fanshawe Stones but they were too high…