Canada

Judy on May 16th, 2012

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 [...]

Continue reading about Victoria Day

Glenn on April 20th, 2012

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 [...]

Continue reading about Red Rock Coulee

Leslie on March 26th, 2012

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 [...]

Continue reading about Prairie Grain Elevators

Judy on March 10th, 2012

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 [...]

Continue reading about Titanic anniversary in Canada

Glenn on March 9th, 2012

  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

Judy on February 18th, 2012

  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 [...]

Continue reading about Niagara Falls dare devil

Judy on January 25th, 2012

  This Quebec Maritime story follows our British Columbia (BC) post on the Dogsled Mail Run. Each describes an unusual way that mail was delivered in Canada. In 2010, Canada Post issued two stamps commemorating these unique mail deliveries. I stumbled on both while researching dogsledding in Canada. Even though I was raised in Quebec, [...]

Continue reading about Quebec’s Magdalen Islands

Judy on December 23rd, 2011

The Cariboo region of British Columbia may be the only place in the world where you can have a letter stamped “carried by dog sled”.

Continue reading about Canada Post by dogsled

Glenn on December 5th, 2011

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 [...]

Continue reading about Ottawa Parliament Buildings

Glenn on November 14th, 2011

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 [...]

Related Posts with Thumbnails

Continue reading about Wolfhead Smokers