Thunder Bay, Ont., homeowner 'terrified' in close call with dynamite buried in backyard

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What should have been a routine home improvement project led to a very memorable day for Thunder Bay, Ont., resident Julie Colquhoun and her family.

The Marlborough Street resident was having a fence installed in the back of the house — the family recently got a golden retriever puppy — when a member of the work crew found something unexpected while drilling a hole for a fence post: sticks of dynamite.

“He was hand digging it and stopped when he saw it,” Colquhoun told CBC News on Thursday. “When they looked further into it, they thought that they had seen a burlap sack that was full of

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