Canada
FIRST POSTED IN 2011… In Canada, Victoria Day has long been associated with the unofficial start of the summer season. Veggie gardens get planted, family cottages are opened and the cobwebs are dusted off the old bar-B-Q. Canada’s May holiday actually celebrates Queen Victoria’s birthday. The Queen was born on May 24, 1819, at Kensington [...]
Red Rock Coulee will make you feel like you’ve visited the planet Mars. In this part of the Canadian Badlands, about 50-60 kilometres southwest of Medicine Hat , Alberta, when the sun is low in the sky, the entire landscape burns with a golden, orange glow that I have never seen before. The best time [...]
I grew up in Western Canada. And, I have to say, that was a few decades or so ago. In most of my childhood memories, one of the things that keeps showing up is the presence of grain elevators. I can see grain elevators in the background of an old black-and-white snapshot I have of a [...]
2012 is the 100th anniversary of the Titanic disaster. Cape Race, Newfoundland, the closest point of land to the Titanic, played an important role in the Titanic story. Halifax, Nova Scotia, a historic port on Canada’s east coast is where many Titanic victims were laid to rest. In 2012, these places and others in Newfoundland [...]
Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario is the oldest of our provincial parks (established in 1893) and one of the most popular outdoor destinations in Canada. It’s a big place – about 7653 square kilometres! That’s bigger than Prince Edward Island. There are over 2,400 lakes and 1,200 kilometres of streams and rivers running through [...]
Continue reading about Winter wildlife in Algonquin Provincial Park
Nik Wallenda will walk the tightrope after all. The 7th generation family member of the famous Flying Wallendas is the latest daredevil to tempt fate at Niagara Falls. Wallenda has been in the local news for weeks trying to get Canadian authorities to give him the okay. Officials on the US side had already agreed [...]
Look what is all dressed up for the holidays!!! It was a crisp, cold December evening. We walked from a Sandy Hill B&B over to an Elgin Street bistro for a meal. After dinner, we took a camera and tripod over to Parliament Hill and snapped a bunch of pix including this one. Happy Holidays [...]
Recently we did some work for the good folks at Tourism New Brunswick and they tipped us off about a local treasure. Letang, New Brunswick, just north of Grand Manan Island on the Bay of Fundy is the home of Wolfhead Smokers, purveyors of fine smoked salmon products. So we called them up, ordered some [...]
