Canada
On a recent trip to Long Point Provincial Park we spotted what we thought was a huge, beautiful butterfly. Upon showing her this picture, the park naturalist informed us that it was not, in fact, a butterfly, but a moth. None other than the Cecropia moth, the largest in North America! The scientific name [...]
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I recently went to the Young Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto’s Distillery District to see the play, “Billy Bishop goes to War”. This is one of the most-produced Canadian plays of all time, first produced by John Gray and Eric Peterson at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre shortly before Remembrance Day in [...]
It started with @whygocanada tweet. Julie Ovenell Carter is a well known Canadian travel writer and she tweets for WhyGoCanada.com, a Canada travel source. Julie’s tweet read: “My favourite food souvenir from Canada? Hawkins Cheezies of course! What’s yours?…” I discovered one on a road trip to Quebec last year. We were with Carole and [...]
Do me a favour, nay, do yourself and your sausage & rib loving friends and family a favour and check out The Red Steer if you find yourself anywhere in or around Bancroft, Ontario. For the final home stretch of the BBQ season (for some anyway, in my personal experience I happen to know [...]
It’s time for the 133rd CNE! Canada’s largest annual community event takes place along Toronto’s waterfront for 18 days leading up to and including Labor Day. There’s live entertainment, a wide variety of events, a working farm, parades and sports, lots of international food, a Kids World, an airshow and best of all, a huge [...]
I love everything swim, surf and sunscreen and I discovered all three in Midland, Ontario as well as right here in my hometown of Toronto. A two-hour drive from Toronto, Midland is the place for those who feel likewise about the sun, a sandy beach and diving headfirst into refreshing chilly water. We discovered the [...]
Judy comments on some differences between urban Toronto and the Canadian Badlands.
If you’ve never played on Lake Erie’s north shore, go!! Not only will you find some interesting ports of call along the shoreline of the smallest Great Lake, the beaches on Erie’s north shore are GORGEOUS. We discovered our favourite at Port Burwell Provincial Park. There was hardly a soul on its 2.2 km of [...]
When I first met Kelly and she expressed an interest in doing a couple of posts for roadstories.ca, I didn’t realize she was such a Lady About Town. We talked about traveling in Canada and swapped stories about all the great places we had been. I don’t know what I was thinking. Perhaps that she would [...]
