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Quebec’s Magdalen Islands

Quebec’s Magdalen Islands

It was winter 1910 when a telegraph cable stretching across the Gulf of the St. Lawrence broke and left the residents of Quebec’s Magdalen Islands completely cut off from civilization.

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?…”

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.

Canada’s BIG mascots

Canada’s BIG mascots

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

… those nights in Montréal

… those nights in Montréal

Rather than drive, we flew to Montréal and spent six glorious nights in Quebec’s largest city.

Quebec apples and Oka cheese

Quebec apples and Oka cheese

Glenn and I are just back from another glorious Canadian road trip. This time we traveled to Québec and the foothills of the Laurentian Mountains (Les Laurentides).

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Ole Helmhausen on the Badlands of Alberta…

Back road to Mont Tremblant

Collingwood Elvis Festival

Naramata Bench by Cathryn Wellner

The Naramata Bench

Happy Canada Day New York

Happy Canada Day, New York!

Toronto hardware store displaying world flags

Toronto is Euro-soccer mad

Canada's most haunted town

Okanagan wine

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

HMS Terror found in Arctic 168 years after doomed Northwest Passage attempt | The Guardian

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

The Briars’ History Room

Laura Byrne Paquet’s guide to finding a Cottage near Ottawa …

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

Ivvavik National Park and Herschel Island Territorial Park (Qikiqtaruk)

Josephine Matyas Toronto STAR article

Indigenous Artist Carey Newman – A Witness to our Times

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