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Cemetery stories

Cemetery stories

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

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.

The Year of the Bat

The Year of the Bat

Bats are the world’s most misunderstood creatures.

Halloween kisses

Halloween kisses

It started with a 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?…”

Halloween in Canada

Halloween in Canada

Halloween is big business in Canada. Just ask Statistics Canada.

Halloween in Canada

Halloween in Canada

Two of the creepiest places to spend Hallowe’en in Canada are Fort George in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, and the Atlas Coal Mine near Drumheller in the Canadian Badlands of Alberta.

Atlas Coal Mine

Atlas Coal Mine

One of the highlights of our visit to the Canadian Badlands in southeastern Alberta was touring the Atlas Coal Mine National Historic Site.

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haunted mansion in Stirling, Alberta

Halloween in Canada

In Paris with Mavis Gallant, Writer – thewalrus.ca

A Century of Remembrance

Batoche National Historic Site, Saskatchewan

Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont

Blackfoot Crossing Siksika Nation

Blackfoot Crossing – A Hidden Gem

inukshuk in Rankin Inlet, 1968

Inukshuk

10 Canadian Food Finds

Frontiers North Dan’s Diner on the Tundra Buggy Lodge

Dining Out on the Tundra

new Ottawa Art Gallery

The New Ottawa Art Gallery

Lloydtown Pioneer Cemetery fence

Cemetery stories

The Raven’s Call – Bill Reid’s quest to understand Haida art and his own roots…

caribou in Ivvavik National Park, Herschel Island Territorial Park (Qikiqtaruk)

Ivvavik National Park and Herschel Island Territorial Park (Qikiqtaruk)

Trees that were planted in the 1940’s and 50’s reforestation efforts reach for the sun - Oak Ridge Trails Roadstories.ca Brian Robert

Shinrin-Yoku Trails in Uxbridge Township

Long Pond outdoor hockey by Avard Woolaver

Birthplace of Hockey – Windsor, Nova Scotia?

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