Sorry Canuck, looks like you won't get your chance to see a Timber Rattlesnake in Ontario. One hasn't been spotted since 1941 and then it was restricted to the Niagara Gorge.
http://canadianbiodiversity.mcgill.c...es/Cro_hor.htm


Now, the Massasauga rattlesnake on the other hand:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sistrurus_catenatus



Anyone with personal snake or shark stories?
Nope, but I have a good bear story..........