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Dorothy – don’t call it a Ghost Town

Dorothy – don’t call it a Ghost Town

The Hamlet of Dorothy, Alberta is often referred to as a ghost town, but don’t tell that to Linda Miller. Six generations of her family have lived there and she begs to differ.

Cemetery stories

Cemetery stories

I’m hooked on cemeteries. They hold so much potential for great stories.

Red Rock Coulee

Red Rock Coulee

From Red Rock Coulee in southeastern Alberta, on a clear day, you can see the Sweetgrass Hills in Montana.

Halloween across Canada

Halloween across Canada

In Canada, it’s darker at this time of year. There are fewer waking hours and dusk and darkness are often inhabited by unexplained events and ghostly phenomena.

Big Sky in southeastern Alberta

Big Sky in southeastern Alberta

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.

Canada’s BIG mascots

Canada’s BIG mascots

A “mascot” is an animal, person or thing that is supposed to bring good luck.

RANDOM ROADstories

Okanagan wine

Sustainable Tourism in B.C.’s Okanagan wine country

Outdoors in Canada

Keewatin arrives Port McNicoll

Keewatin Pull

Canadian War Museum

Remembrance Day, Canadian War Museum, poppies & John McCrae

Lost art found under horsehair insulation …

Cannington Historical Society

The Cannington Historical Society

Rankin Inlet inookshook 1968

Rankin Inlet, Canada, 1968

Red Steer Butcher shop

Red Steer butcher

Hot smoked salmon from Wolfhead Smokers

Wolfhead Smokers

Long Pond outdoor hockey by Avard Woolaver

Birthplace of Hockey – Windsor, Nova Scotia?

Mosaiculture Gatineau 2018

Mosaïculture Gatineau 2018

Steveston fishing village, British Columbia, Canada

Steveston Historic Fishing Village

Halloween in Canada

Toronto likes our Niagara grapes

Canada's First Peoples
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