In the evening on July 20, 1969, my mother took my sister and I outside the house in Winnipeg to look up at the moon. Neil Armstrong and “Buzz” Aldrin were, at that very moment, walking on that dusty surface about a quarter of a million miles away. Mum knew I was interested in what [...]
I was very surprised and saddened when I saw pictures in the paper recently showing serious flooding of houses in Yorkton, Saskatchewan. (CBC story here) When I was a small girl, which I have to say was a few decades ago, we used to go to Yorkton for the summer. We took the train, the [...]
A few years ago, while we were doing some PR work for the Hudson’s Bay Company, I ran across an amazing guy called Harold Tichenor. He’s a woodsy guy, makes films, likes to live off the grid. Smart. Unassuming. And he has a wicked fetish for Point blankets. There are few objects more quintessentially Canadian. [...]
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I’ve always been intrigued by the roadside traveller’s motel. Perhaps I’ve seen too many bad movies, or read one-too-many trashy novels, but I always wonder about the secrets that must dwell within these places. What clandestine affairs and nefarious dealings have passed behind those thin walls and under that blinking neon “Vacancy” sign? What lonely [...]
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It’s summer in Canada and the big city is a little quieter these days. After a nine-day driving tour of the Canadian Badlands in southeastern Alberta, I was happy to spend a couple of days at a cottage near Georgian Bay in Ontario. It’s a very short walk to the “outhouse” and the water comes [...]
” The sky is ever sensed above Canada.” – Russian writer Andrei Voznesensky in 1971 Travellers headed west out of Calgary towards the mountains are focused on the growing Rockies, but the first thing that strikes me every time I drive east from the stampede city is the big sky. Perhaps it’s because I can’t [...]
Back in 2000, Niagara Falls Tourism asked us to help them get publicity for a big Valentine’s Day wedding. Four hundred lovers were tying the knot in a winter garden ceremony across from the American Falls. The event got me thinking how did Niagara Falls become the honeymoon capital of the world anyway? That’s when [...]
Besides being a long-lasting comic strip first published in 1918, and the second solo album by Rod Stewart released in 1970, Gasoline Alley is a collection of roadside eateries, gas stations, RV dealerships and assorted travellers’ diversions on a patch of highway 2 just south of Red Deer, Alberta. Some people think that Gasoline Alley [...]
Here is a June 2010 fishing post from CANADA fishing master, Pete Wasag: I am very pleased to give you a report on my latest fishing excursion. The Trent River system (aka Trent-Severn Waterway) in Ontario, has been one of my favorite destinations to go and practise the art of fishing and try to become [...]
