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Victoria Day

Victoria Day

FIRST POSTED IN 2011… In Canada, Victoria Day has long been associated with the unofficial start of the summer season. Veggie gardens get planted, family cottages are opened and the cobwebs are dusted off the old bar-B-Q. Canada’s May holiday actually celebrates Queen Victoria’s birthday.

RANDOM ROADstories

lancaster bomber

Restored 1945 Lancaster Bomber Flight

two sled dogs in yukon winter

Beautiful Yukon winter: Resistance is futile

Wawa Ontario

Wawa, Ontario, is More than a Goose and a Moose …

Blyth Festival The New Canadian Curling Club

Blyth Festival – stories of life in rural Canada

Creation of a Totem Pole

inukshuk in Rankin Inlet, 1968

Inukshuk

horse at Bar U Ranch National Historic Site

Lipstick and True Grit at Bar U Ranch

Jacques Parizeau, Donald Trump and The Politics of Egomania

Western Uplands Ranch

Wild West Honeymoons

Armchairs in the hallway just outside of our room at The Briars

The Briars’ History Room

Big Lonely Doug

steelhead trout flies

Fly fishing fall steelhead in Ontario

Whale Interpretive Centre, Telegraph Cove

A Second Life For Whales

People buying fresh fish from fishing boats in Wismar Harbour. They couldn't get to the harbour without a legal pass during Soviet occupation to keep them from fleeing East Germany in a small boat to nearby Sweden or Denmark.

Remembering Wismar

Canada's First Peoples
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