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Bluenose Pride of Nova Scotia

Champion for a generation. Icon for a lifetime.

FREE postcard from Canada Post!

Canada Post direct mail piece March 2021 . . . . . . . Although it probably doesn’t herald a return to the letter-writing ways of our ancestors, this recent nod to the Wish-You-Were-Here postcard comes complete with it’s own stamp. It felt like a warm greeting from an old friend as I filled it […]

What’s going on in Thunder Bay?

Youthful energy is fermenting . . .

Karpans Win BIG at TMAC

Travel Media Association of Canada honours Saskatchewan Adventure Duo ……. BIG congratulations to Robin and Arlene Karpan on a FIRST PLACE 2019 TMAC AWARD in the Best Coverage of a Host Destination category, published here on Roadstories.ca . . . Wawa, Ontario, is More than a Goose and a Moose … I love it when […]

Canadian Museum for Human Rights

Out of the dark and in to the light . . .

Infection is not new here . . .

Tuberculosis has plagued the North since it arrived with whalers in the late nineteenth century. At its peak, in the 1950s, it infected one in three Inuit in Canada. Read this at | The Walrus: The North Knows What It’s Like to Fight a Pandemic

Donald Trump’s ancestral brothel …

Donald Trump’s fortune began with a two-storey outfit selling swan meat and sex (in Canada) … The Arctic Restaurant and Hotel, owned by Friedrich Trump in Bennett, B.C. in 1899, is being reconstructed by Parks Canada in collaboration with the Carcross Tagish First Nation (Meagan Campbell) ……. Source: Donald Trump’s ancestral brothel gets a new […]