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Collingwood Elvis Festival

Collingwood Elvis Festival

We really just wanted to grab some lunch on our way home from Blue Mountain Resort, but we ended up taking in the opening salvos of the annual Elvis Festival in Collingwood, Ontario. Editor’s note: This year’s Elvis Fest runs July 26-29, 2012.

Cecropia Moth at Long Point Provincial Park

Cecropia Moth at Long Point Provincial Park

On a recent trip to Long Point Provincial Park we spotted what we thought was a huge, beautiful butterfly.

Central Canada meets western Canada

Central Canada meets western Canada

Judy comments on some differences between urban Toronto and the Canadian Badlands.

Canadian moose

If you’ve ever driven any distance through the Canadian bush (as Shania Twain calls it), especially endless miles of tree-lined, two-lane highway, then you will know about the moose.

Niagara Falls honeymoon

Niagara Falls honeymoon

Niagara Falls Tourism asked us to help them get publicity for a big Valentine’s Day wedding. Four hundred lovers were tying the knot in a winter garden ceremony across from the American Falls.

Ontario Provincial Parks

Ontario Provincial Parks

The season at Ontario Parks officially opens in May.

A Canadian hockey road story

A Canadian hockey road story

Weekend hockey road trips are legendary in Canada. This post is by a 14 year old goalie. He and his hockey team, their coaches, and a bunch of hockey moms and dads recently traveled by bus five hours to Sudbury, Ontario for a weekend tournament. This is his story…

The Automatiste Revolution Still Reigns in Quebec

The Automatiste Revolution Still Reigns in Quebec

The Automatiste Revolution: Montreal 1941-1960, opened at the Varley Art Gallery in Unionville, Ontario last week.

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.

Muskoka near Algonquin Park, Ontario

Muskoka near Algonquin Park, Ontario

We did a road trip to the northeastern part of Muskoka near Algonquin Park, Ontario in September. Our base was the Foxwood Resort on Lake of Bays, a big lake with five hundred kilometres of shoreline.

Golf in Ontario, Canada

Golf in Ontario, Canada

Links to golf courses at Resorts of Ontario…

RANDOM ROADstories

Herve Hoffer and his wife Nicole enjoy a peaceful moment at Canada House on Juno Beach.

Canada House – Juno Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944

Haida Gwaii Watchmen eagle

Haida Gwaii Watchmen

The North Needs More Doctors

Squamish-Lil’wat Cultural Centre

Squamish-Lil’wat Cultural Centre

indigenous cuisine

Indigenous Cuisine Blossoms

Canopée Lit treehouse

Treehouse with Bathroom

Hudson's Bay Company opening stores in Netherlands | Toronto Star

27 road trip ideas for this week: Laura doesn’t want to hear about it…

This-lift-bridge-opened-in-1917- Kingston third crossing bridge by Pat Brennan

Kingston’s Third Crossing Bridge

Nancy Greene

What makes an Olympian?

Rankin Inlet inookshook 1968

Rankin Inlet, Canada, 1968

Canada and The Great War – 1914 to 1918

Canada and The Great War
1914 – 1918

cottage destroyed by falling tree

Cottage life

Pictou Island by Brian Robert

Pictou Island

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