The idea for this week’s post all started with an Amy Rosen story in Maclean’s magazine about Melita’s banana mascot. Melita is a small town in southern Manitoba, an area of Canada that Manitobans like to call the “banana belt” because of its milder temperatures. Many Melita locals however, weren’t in favour of a banana [...]
In February, 2009, I visited Steveston, a historic fishing village in the southwest corner of Lulu Island, British Columbia. It’s not far from the Vancouver International Airport and the city of Vancouver. The village looks out on the south arm of the Fraser River delta. Steveston was founded in the 1880s and became a thriving [...]