Canada ~ 16 Jul 2007

Canada Map

It's huge, it's cold and it's got lots of different regions -- each with their own unique history and people. Canada is the second largest country in the world (in size), touches the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Arctic Ocean. Fortunately, I've been in every single province and one of the territories.

Below: Alberta & Calgary, British Columbia, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, and Yukon

CANADA STATS

GENERAL

Photos from Canada ~ 03 Jan 2004
Canada can be a not so nice place to live in the winter -- mainly because of the weather. The weather in Calgary crappy right now and I just thought I would share. But, rather than doing a "the weathe...

Fall is a Wonderful Season ~ 05 Oct 2005
I'm really enjoying this post because it seems that when I asked people to send me a bit of fall weather they also sent a bit of their personality with the photos. All these photos are wonderful.

Canadian Passport Conundrum ~ 27 Jul 2007
With all of the January 2007 hub-bub about needing passports to fly into the U.S. you'd think that things would have calmed down a bit by now. I quickly learned that this is certainly not the case as ...

Canadian ~ 19 Jan 2008
We're in the midst of a snow storm here; large flakes coupled with bitter winds and large amounts of snow are driving people to the inner recesses of their homes. Driving is a nightmare, walkways are ...

Coffee Around Canada ~ 10 Oct 2008
I seem to have collected a small mountain of "coffee shop" photos on my iPhone (photos taken while enjoying coffee); not sure why I started to take coffee shop photos, but in discovering these I decid...

ALBERTA

What Canadians Do For Fun: Part 1 ~ 30 Nov 2003
On Saturday night I found myself after dark, hiking through a long snow filled pathway in the woods. It was about minus 10 degrees but felt like minus 15 with a wind whipping through the trees. The ...

What Canadians Do For Fun: Part 2 ~ 01 Dec 2003
A Canadian winter party is never really a successful party until someone gets stuck in a ditch. This time around it was two somebody's: Roberta and Allie. And, there may have been others; because, o...

Road to Kananaskis ~ 18 Nov 2004
The date of the conference has finally arrived. All the planning that started in April/May is finally underway and I am a bit nervous about how it will all come together. This year we opted to do so...

Banff ~ 20 Nov 2004
The last time I was in Banff was in the Fall of 2003, well before the first snowfall of the season; it was actually quite nice to see Banff village and the surrounding areas covered with a thin blan...

Hogmanay ~ 01 Jan 2006
Hogmanay (hog-muh-NAY) is the Scottish New Year celebration and every year in Edinburgh there is a huge party on Dec 31st. The shortbread that I mentioned a few days ago was baked for Hogmanay -- t...

Big Hill Spring Park ~ 17 Sep 2007
Just Northwest of Calgary on the lower end of Big Spring Coulee, is Big Hill Spring Park. This is a favourite day trip destination for us because we can walk the dogs, exercise the toddler and get s...

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump ~ 23 Jun 2008
During an entire year of studying, documenting, and practically living with several boxes of bones from Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, I'm a little hesitant to mention that I never actually visited t...

X-Skiing at Confederation (Calgary, Canada) ~ 28 Feb 2009
It's been a weird winter for skiing. First it was great: tons of snow, not too cold, and no Chinook in sight. Then January hit and we were thrown into extreme cold, and then extreme Chinook and most...

BRITISH COLUMBIA

Cumberland, British Columbia ~ 19 Jul 2002
After lunch we headed out to Cumberland, an old mining coal community. Cumberland is a cute little town; small with lots of old buildings and places that sell antiques. They also boast being one of ...

Comox, British Columbia ~ 05 Apr 2003
The draw to Comox for a large number of Calgarians is the golf / ski package that West Jet offers; and, why not? Where else in Canada can you golf in the mornings, ski in the afternoon, and relax on...

Twas a Good Trip with Learnings ~ 26 Jun 2006
This trip was very different from the first trip we did to Comox; in may ways it was better now that Makenna is an entertaining little person. It was a very rewarding trip and in the process I learn...

Coffee in Comox! ~ 17 Jan 2008
To get away from some of the intensity of our latest trip to B.C., Makenna and I went to our favourite little organic coffee shop on the main strip in Comox. There we could absorb the very B.C.-ish ...

Rainforest ~ 21 Jan 2008
Above is one of the reasons why I like Comox Valley so much: you can leave Calgary in January (amidst gale winds, snow and killing temperatures) and go to a place where everything is alive and green...

Goose Spit Regional Park, Comox ~ 25 Jan 2008
Rumour has it that Oprah bought the big glass house overlooking the Spit; and, I can understand why. To the west there is a fantastic view of Mount Washington and its snow covered peaks. If you look...

K'omoks ~ 08 Oct 2008
The Legend of Queneesh. Long ago there were big cedar planked houses, totem poles and canoes in the Comox Valley. The nights were very quiet, except for the sounds of the water, sea birds and the h...

CALGARY

Destructive Construction ~ 06 Aug 2002
One thing I find dismaying is the destructive construction mentality that many Calgarians have. In recent days two heritage buildings in my neighbourhood have been slated for demolition. For me, comin...

Artist Homes: Inglewood ~ 29 Mar 2003
This home owner is a painter. He does wonderful art scenes that are what I call: the Albertan style. This is art spurned by the vastness of the province as well as its muted colour beauty. The home is located in Inglewood, Calgary's oldest residential area....

Artist Homes: Ramsey ~ 29 Mar 2003
This studio is not a home, but rather a workspace. Given the medium the artist works with it would be unhealthy to combine the two. Located in Ramsey it is out of the main residential area and in the industrial warehouse region....

Artist Homes: Mount Pleasant ~ 29 Mar 2003
For this artist living and working are one in the same. She is a mixed media artist and has incorporated much of this work into her 1914 Arts and Crafts home. When I say mixed media artist I mean she uses anything she can get her hands on. This is refreshing and enjoyable because each part of her home has some curiosity worth further examination....

Artist Homes: Hillhurst ~ 29 Mar 2003
This Governor General award winning ceramicist and his wife share a cute little clapboard home in Hillhurst. Historically this area had its beginnings as farm land owned by the pioneering Riley family. Hillhurst became a part of the city around 1910 but real development in the area didn't begin until after the Second World War. This house was one of the first built in the Hillhurst region in 1912....

Artist Homes: Edworthy Park ~ 29 Mar 2003
I have heard it said that Calgarians are afraid of light and they are afraid of colour, especially when it comes to building and decorating their homes. This team of artists are afraid of neither. Their house is bright, colourful, cheerful and definitely unique. I remember thinking as I walked through the front doors that walking into their house at times was like walking into an Esher painting...

Artist Homes: 14th Avenue ~ 29 Mar 2003
This home belongs to a ceramic artist couple who were more than willing to share their romantic and artfully decorated 14th Avenue bungalow. There are many different design styles present in their residence, but a lot of thought has been put into their blending and rather than looking patchwork-ish, everything works together in harmony. That is how I felt while in their home: harmonious....

Artist Homes: Bankview ~ 29 Mar 2003
This artist is one of the few 'non-born-and-bred-Calgarian' artists on the tour. She lives and works in her cozy bungalow in Bankview. The house is really unassuming from the front but once you enter the home you enter into an interesting world....

Artist Homes: Cliff Bungalow ~ 29 Mar 2003
These two artists share a 1911 two story jewel in the heart of Cliff Bungalow. This house is commonly known as a stopping place for many artists in the community and I'm told that the doors are always open and people are welcome to stop by for a cup of coffee and a chat....

Calgary's Potter's Field ~ 18 Apr 2003
Have you ever wondered what happens to the homeless or the destitute when they die? Well, I have, and I still don't really know what the answer is to that question because no one talks about it. But...

The Union Cemetery ~ 18 Apr 2003
Since my own life is not very interesting at the moment, I am going to do a series on interesting things that I find out about Calgary's history and its people. I live in one of the more historic a...

Fort Calgary ~ 24 Apr 2003
There are few people in my life who know this tidbit about me, but I have a forensic osteology degree. What does this mean? It means I spent four years of my life hunched over boxes and boxes of ske...

Ozzy is the King ~ 04 Jun 2003
Gone are the days of long hair and leather - at least for me. I went to see Ozzy in concert at the Saddledome and wore no vestiges of a heavy metal fan. Sorry, but the big hair, heavy metal t-shirt an...

Urban Adventure ~ 27 Nov 2003
Lexicom is donating all of its unused computer equipment to the Interfaith Computer Association in Calgary. In doing so it allows us to get rid of a lot of the older machines we have stored in the b...

LOR Trilogy Tuesday ~ 17 Dec 2003
Tuesday, December 16, 2003. 11:30 a.m. - The geeks rush the theatre. We have been forced to wait in the mall until the doors open. 11:31 a.m. - I arrive in the actual theatre. And there are no good...

Sakana Grill Sushi School ~ 11 Jan 2004
I now know how to make a sushi boat, every last delicious morsel. This came about on Saturday when Street and I went to Sushi School at the Sakana Grill in Chinatown. Our host for the session was To...

Lions and Elephants and Hippos, Oh My! ~ 13 May 2005
We bought a membership to the zoo. It's actually surprisingly cheap -- $40 for the year whereas an individual entry is $15. Makenna and I went down today to cruise amongst the animals and explore a...

Dear Mr. Alderman, ~ 16 Jun 2005
I've noticed a disturbing trend as of late, sparked by the newsletter you left in my mailbox. The trend is to suggest that dogs and their owners are one group responsible for the destruction of our ci...

Toys, Coffee and Movies ~ 09 Nov 2005
Because of this Makenna and I seem to be frequenting coffee / play shops more and more because it is an easy outing that keeps us both entertained; there are toys for Makenna, coffee for me, and lot...

Butterfield Acres ~ 18 Apr 2006
One goal I have for Makenna's childhood is to get a membership to something every year; something that will give her a taste of what is available in Calgary and get us out of the house on weekends. ...

Smash and Wedge ~ 25 Oct 2006
If you were stuck in traffic this morning on MacLeod Trail north, this is why: a city garbage truck managed to wedge itself under the 10th street train bridge. I had front row viewing because my of...

Unexpected Canine Behaviour ~ 09 Nov 2006
Chris took the doggies out for the run last night because I couldn't get out of bed. The run itself was pretty uneventful until Chris and the doggies got to the end and were fairly close to the park...

Dear 17th Avenue ~ 06 Mar 2007
Dear 17th Ave... oh how I've missed you and your stinky streets; your eclectic feel and your character. Oh how I love your little breakfast nooks, the paintings on building walls and little artsy fe...

Coyote Run ~ 19 Mar 2007
On Saturday's attempt at a 10K run (do you know how hard it is to run on partially melted snow and mud?) we rounded a corner and ran smack into a large coyote who was meandering down the pathway. It...

A Night Out with Harry Potter ~ 21 Jul 2007
When has history seen or our generation ever seen such a bit fuss over a book? Will our generation ever see such a thing again? These questions permeated the Harry Potter final book launch in Calgary ...

Happy Halloween ~ 31 Oct 2007
A week or two ago Chris, Kevin the Neighbour, Makenna and I all piled into the Jeep and headed to the other side of Calgary to see a Haunted House put together by one of my co-workers, BillyD. I know...

Heritage Breakfast ~ 25 Dec 2007
There are so many interesting things to do in Calgary and we never get a chance to do them because our days are a tightly weaved matrix of "must dos" and "need to dos" that never seem to ever happen. ...

Deep Freeze ~ 30 Jan 2008
Winter has hit Calgary in full force. I generally don't mind the cold but when it gets to temperatures that freeze your eyes shut and restrict your breathing I have problems. There's nothing worse t...

HAWC the Helicopter ~ 11 Feb 2008
This weekend Makenna got to partake in another aero adventure; this time with a helicopter: HAWC the Helicopter. I don't know how many of you know HAWC's history -- but the helicopter came about af...

Lunar Eclipse ~ 20 Feb 2008
I didn't do too badly with the photos of this year's lunar eclipse; I did, however, discover that my tripod isn't quite as stable as it could be. At the very least, the lunar eclipse was a great exc...

Lean-to ~ 18 Mar 2008
How many years have we been walking in the park and never once noticed the path hidden at the top of the hill? I discovered it quite by accident this evening while chasing Stryder away from somethin...

Cottony Softness Falling Out of the Sky ~ 11 Apr 2008
While at Acadia University I lived on a floor that contained a fair number of students from the Bahamas. One thing I remember about each of them is their preconceived notions of snow and how quickly...

WOWtown ~ 15 Apr 2008
What do you do with a toddler who NEVER ever stops moving? Who has two speeds: hyperspeed and tornado? Who questions everything and has a constant why on her lips? Who explores the minutest details ...

A Day Out with Thomas ~ 03 May 2008
This is our second year with Thomas; and, while the first was frenzied, chaotic, tearful and full of meltdowns, this year was more relaxed because Makenna knew what to expect. That said, she was sti...

Calgary's Heritage Park ~ 19 May 2008
I'd forgotten how much fun Heritage Park was until we attended the season opening this weekend. Anticipating that it would be packed we planned to go for only an hour; however, a hour quickly turned...

Calgary's North Bike Paths, A User Experience ~ 19 Jun 2008
Vicious dogs, abnormally psychotic city bus drivers, random and strange path beginnings / ends; this is my user experience on Calgary's NW / NE bike paths. One of the paths (read: the path I take) r...

Creative Kids Museum ~ 21 Jun 2008
Fantastic. That's the first word that comes to mind when I think of the Creative Kids Museum located on the ground floor of Calgary's Science Center. It is everything the upstairs is not; while the Sc...

Toupie et Binou ~ 11 Jul 2008
Rather than see all those concerts / events I would like to see at Stampede (like Jully Black), this week I found myself attending shows suitable for a three year old: Toopy and Binoo (above), the S...

Stampede Food ~ 12 Jul 2008
This year's trip to the Stampede grounds included a quest: the quest to find deep-fried Mars Bars. DFMBs are a Scottish masterpiece; they were invented in Aberdeenshire and have somehow managed to fin...

Snow, Skis, and Solitude ~ 05 Jan 2009
I'm liking the new sport though it does have it's moments of extreme drama. For example, today I was 15-minutes into my ski at Nose Hill when my hands went numb from the cold (when you get past the ...

NEWFOUNDLAND

Woman of Mystery ~ 06 Oct 2007
I'm reposting this article from the St. John's Telegram about my grandmother for my cousin Natasha. There's more of the story on my old site in a post that I wrote when Eileen died. Woman of Mystery...

NOVA SCOTIA

Horseback Riding ~ 12 Aug 2001
We arrived in Nova Scotia at 6am after a sleepless night on the plane. Up until this point my friend Michi had been very secretive about what we were going to do after she picked us up at the airpor...

Argyle ~ 17 Aug 2001
On one of our "graveyard" trips I dragged Chris to Argyle in hopes of finding the church and churchyard where the McKinnon "original ancestor" is buried. My grandfather visited the site many years a...

Beach Meadows Beach ~ 19 Aug 2001
Today's journey was out to Beach Meadows Beach -- a lovely white sand beach just past Port Medway and Brooklyn on the South Shore. Chris wanted to do some beach time before going back to the valley ...

Annapolis Royal ~ 21 Aug 2001
Tidal Power. The trip to Annapolis Royal started off with a tour of the tidal power plant. Tidal power itself is pretty impressive and Nova Scotia has the only salt water generating system in North ...

Wolfville and Grande Pre ~ 22 Aug 2001
Wolfville now has a new notoriety for me. Sure, it will forever be known as the place where I went to university, but Wolfville is the only place in the entire Annapolis Valley that we could find re...

Flooding in Nova Scotia ~ 01 Apr 2003
The above photo comes from my dad. Nova Scotia is having problems with record rain fall and melting snow, which has caused flooding in many parts of Nova Scotia. Roads and bridges have washed out, b...

Cape Sable Island ~ 28 Jan 2004
Yet another "it's cold in Canada" post. I am sitting in the computer room with the door closed and the heater on high and I am still freezing. My hands are shaking as I am typing this. Poor Angel ha...

Nova Scotia ~ 23 Aug 2004
Baby and I made it to Nova Scotia safe and sound. My ankles swelled - especially in the leg from Toronto to Halifax but I was expecting that. Still, it didn't make the two hour drive to the Valley a...

Middleton, Nova Scotia ~ 24 Aug 2004
Middleton played an important part of my early life as this was the location of my first lifeguarding summer job (where I made $180 per week!) and also the place where I went to high school. Middle...

Liverpool and Fort Point ~ 25 Aug 2004
Liverpool is perhaps one of the most interesting towns in all of Nova Scotia, and one often overlooked by tourists; every time I go there I think "this would be a cool place to retire." Chris and I ...

Summerville Beach ~ 25 Aug 2004
One of the perks of being in Nova Scotia during the summer is that you get to spend time on the beach. This is an enjoyable experience as long as there isn't fog, wind or a hurricane moving its way ...

Fishing Boats ~ 25 Aug 2004
A slight detour in our trip down the south shore included a stop at one of the fishing docks by Cape Forchu. It was such a calm and beautiful evening that I had to stop and take photos of the boats ...

Cape Forchu ~ 25 Aug 2004
Lighthouses are a tourist staple in the Maritime Provinces and Cape Forchu has one of the most unique functional lighthouses in the province. The original lighthouse at Cape Forchu, near Yarmouth, w...

Lakelawn Motel, Yarmouth ~ 25 Aug 2004
For the night we booked a room at the Lakelawn Motel on Main Street in Yarmouth. The motel is built around a house originally erected by William Dodge Lovitt, a son of one of the founding families i...

Port Maitland Beach ~ 26 Aug 2004
Tourists seem to only like the white beaches of Nova Scotia and not the brown or red beaches that you often see around the French shore or higher up the coast in the province. Places like Risers and...

The French Shore / Clare Region ~ 26 Aug 2004
For some reason the whole French Shore region is quite barren and stark. You don't see a lot of trees or high bushes - just low lying grass and brush. My thought is this may be due to the violent wi...

Congres Mondial Acadien ~ 26 Aug 2004
This year is the Congres Mondial Acadien (CMA) in Nova Scotia - a time when Acadian people from all around the globe unite in a select location in an attempt to find lost relatives from the Acadian ...

Digby ~ 26 Aug 2004
Digby is a cute little town on the south of Nova Scotia. We stopped here for coffee / tea and a snack before continuing on to Annapolis Royal for a little whale watching. Digby is an active fishing...

Yarmouth ~ 26 Aug 2004
Yarmouth is Nova Scotia's second city, though not nearly as big as Halifax. I almost see the city has been broken down into different sections. There is the shopping strip where cement, gigantic cha...

Port George ~ 27 Aug 2004
Now this is the kind of Nova Scotia beach I am used to - rock beach, wicked winds and brutally cold dampness. When it gets really hot in the valley people will take trips up to Port George to cool o...

Annapolis Royal ~ 28 Aug 2004
Jeff came into town for the weekend and while we were in Annapolis Royal whale watching we decided to take in the sights at the Habitation and Fort Anne. The Habitation or Port Royal as it is calle...

Mr. Elusive, the Humpback Whale ~ 29 Aug 2004
He's only small at 7 metres but he has certainly captivated the attention of locals and tourists. Yes, a humpback whale managed to find its way through the sluice gates into the headpond at the Nova...

The Rivaa Medway ~ 24 May 2005
One of the places where my ancestors settled was in a little town / area called Charleston near Liverpool in Nova Scotia. Next to Charleston is Mill Village where many of my relatives still live. T...

Waiting For Chimney Swifts ~ 24 Jul 2005
In Middleton, Nova Scotia, at the high school I attended many years ago there is a large chimney that Swifts use as refuge at night. We went to watch them last night and they didn't appear. Either w...

The Bay of Fundy ~ 25 Jul 2005
There is a place on the Bay of Fundy called Port George. This is a popular place on hot summer days because the temperature here is often times much cooler than what it is in the Valley. Our evenin...

Inner Workings ~ 27 Jul 2005
If you like clocks than the MacDonald Museum in Middleton is the place to go. Makenna and I spent the morning exploring the museum's clock display, quilting display, rusty nail collection and 1940s...

The Old Corner Store ~ 28 Jul 2005
When the rest of the world moved to multi-purpose chain corner stores, parts of Nova Scotia held on to many of their old fashioned corner stores. The stores that remain are often filled with elabora...

Margaretsville ~ 01 Aug 2005
In all my years of living in the Annapolis Valley and driving around on the back roads looking for interesting places I never once discovered Margaretsville. I feel like I've missed out on a wonderf...

Gaspereau Valley Fibres ~ 03 Aug 2005
I want to take up knitting now that I have been to the Gaspereau Valley Fibres farm and shop. I'm not a knitter but I found the shop absolutely divine and I am now crazy for wool. I'm sure for someo...

The Coast to Coast Tour -- Atlantic Ocean ~ 08 Aug 2005
In June Makenna dipped her feet in the Pacific Ocean at the Airforce Beach in Comox, British Columbia and on Saturday she sampled the Atlantic Ocean -- at Beach Meadows Beach on the South Shore in N...

Domestic Medicine ~ 21 Aug 2005
This comes from the Nova Scotia Sanatorium in Kentville. The sanatorium was initially the place where people went when they had tuberculosis and later became a hospice for those returning soldiers w...

It's Tapping Season in Nova Scotia ~ 19 Mar 2006
This photo comes from Ed in Nova Scotia. At this time of the year, spiles and maple syrup collection buckets are a familiar sight on many trees in the province. Ed writes: "I'm sending a picture th...

The Boiling Process ~ 26 Mar 2006
Here is another photo from Ed in Nova Scotia about the maple syrup process. Ed writes: I am sending a picture of boiler and holding tank that is in the boiling process for Chris to see. I collecte...

Middleton's Heart of the Valley Days ~ 22 Jul 2006
Before heading off to the beach we went to see the Heart of the Valley Parade in Middleton -- to see what the town had to offer and also to bake in the sun. Like I mentioned earlier it was hot and ...

Old Burying Ground ~ 25 Jul 2008
The fog was a good atmospheric primer for a visit to what is thought to be the oldest colonial cemetery in the Maritimes: The Old Burying Ground in Halifax. It's surrounded by numerous landmarks: Ba...

Halifax ~ 26 Jul 2008
Halifax isn't such a bad place; so, don't let my grouchy post scare you away. I don't think I've ever blogged about Halifax even though I've spend many chunks of my life there. It's a city with char...

Halifax Harbour ~ 29 Jul 2008
Halifax's Harbour is one of the largest and deepest natural harbours in the world (18 metres deep at low tide). It's divided into three distinct areas: the outer southern segment, the skinny narrows...

Lawrencetown Beach ~ 31 Jul 2008
Lawrencetown Beach, is one of a handful of south-facing beaches that can be found just 20 minutes East of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. It's a popular location for families, mountain-bikers (nearby trails...

Dartmouth Ferry ~ 01 Aug 2008
My posts aren't really showing any semblance of a logical order; the Lawrencetown Beach post was from our last day in Nova Scotia, after I found a way to my family and Makenna in the Valley. This po...

Customer Enemies ~ 12 Aug 2008
It was Delta Airlines. It started with a simple sit down and we'll get to you in a minute. It progressed to an announcement that the plane was 10-minutes late. After 30 minutes people began asking que...

Roos Playhouse ~ 17 Aug 2008
If you're a parent and you happen to find yourself in Greenwood, Nova Scotia with your kids, Roo's Playhouse in the Greenwood Mall is worth a sojourn. Wouldn't it be nice if Calgary had a mall or t...

Halifax Explosion: The Explosion ~ 01 Oct 2008
The above photo is titled The Aftermath of the Halifax Explosion, N.S. 1917 and comes from a tiny little shop found along the Halifax Harbour boardwalk. It's one of many photos I recently found tuck...

Halifax Explosion: To The Rescue ~ 02 Oct 2008
The above photo is titled Halifax Waterfront, N.S. 1920 and is also from that same little shop found along the Halifax Harbour boardwalk. It was taken by Wallace MacAskill roughly two years after th...

Halifax Explosion: Storm and Burials ~ 03 Oct 2008
The above photo is titled Little Dutch Church, Halifax, N.S. by Arthur B. Burchell. It also comes from a tiny little shop found along the Halifax Harbour boardwalk. It's one of many photos I recentl...

ONTARIO

40 Minutes in Toronto ~ 22 Aug 2004
I was in the big city of Toronto for 40 minutes today. For those of you who know the history of the city it was on par with New York in size until it was sacked by the Americans. Its original name w...

Toronto ~ 20 Jan 2008
I've never really liked Toronto. There are lots of other completely wonderful cities and little towns in "Upper Canada" and if given the choice I would visit all of them, skip Toronto and head strai...

QUEBEC

Calgary, Winnipeg, Montreal ~ 28 Feb 2008
The drive to the airport was nothing short of terrifying. It was 5:30 am and a snow / sleet storm hit Calgary like a giant fist. For a fleeting moment I was glad that I opted for the 6:30 am flight ou...

Rue Sainte-Catherine ~ 03 Mar 2008
Except during the very early morning hours, motion never seemed to cease on Rue Sainte-Catherine. Other streets emptied as Montrealers disappeared into the underground city to avoid the cold, but on...

Rue Drummond ~ 09 Mar 2008
Rue Drummond is part of the Golden Square Mile and is like many other downtown Montreal streets: eclectic and downright pretty. It's also home to some well known Montreal landmarks and two of my recen...

Promenade Sir-William-Osler ~ 11 Mar 2008
Promenade Sir-William-Osler overlooks McGill University's Campus and is sandwiched between Mont Royal Park and Rue Sherbrooke. It's only fitting that the street be named after William Osler as it le...

SASKATCHEWAN

Almost Regina ~ 11 Feb 2004
Today I almost made it to Regina. I was close enough that I could almost touch it. But the karma gods decided to have a bit of a giggle on my expense. You see - Saskatchewan and Manitoba are the las...

Regina, Saskatchewan ~ 12 Feb 2004
I finally made it to Regina. It was a fly in fly out dealie but I did get to see a bit of town on my drive to the offices of the client I was meeting. Regina is a really cute place. There are tons ...

YUKON

From Calgary to Edmonton ~ 27 Jun 2003
Edmonton, 294 km from Calgary. Our plan for the long weekend is to drive to Whitehorse to see our friends Duke and Jonelle at their wedding reception; a great road trip and a typical long weekend a...

The Alaska Highway ~ 28 Jun 2003
Begins at Dawson Creek, 882 km from Calgary. The Alaska Highway has a bit of an interesting history and is a great bonus for Canada since the U.S. paid for its construction. The highway links the t...

Fort Nelson ~ 28 Jun 2003
Fort Nelson, 1361 km from Calgary. Fort Nelson is this lovely little redneck town that is famous for being the "third non-native settlement" in British Columbia. The town was established as a tradi...

Liard Hotsprings ~ 28 Jun 2003
Liard Hotsprings, 1647 km from Calgary. About three hours north of Fort Nelson on the Alaska Highway is one of British Columbia's treasures: the Liard Hot Springs. Here in the middle of nowhere, in ...

Watson Lake ~ 28 Jun 2003
Watson Lake, 1886 km from Calgary. The next and last stop on the journey to Whitehorse was the town of Watson Lake located just a few kilometres inside the Yukon side of the Yukon / British Columbia...

Whitehorse ~ 29 Jun 2003
Whitehorse, 2339 km from Calgary. As the story goes, Whitehorse is named after the violent rapids of the Yukon River. It is said that in the late 1800s the rapids in the area looked a lot like the f...

Miles Canyon and Canyon City ~ 29 Jun 2003
One of the most treacherous areas on the Yukon River runs through Miles Canyon, an 8km long death trap. Here the Whitehorse rapids (what the city is named after) were so bad that boats only passed t...

The S.S. Klondike ~ 29 Jun 2003
Parks Canada has converted the largest sternwheeler to work the Yukon River into a National Park. It is located on the bank of the Yukon River, at the end of the downtown strip, and is in complete d...

The Yukon Brewery ~ 29 Jun 2003
A trip into Whitehorse is not complete until you have done a tour of the Yukon Brewery (or so we were told numerous times). Thus, we went to the brewery for a mandatory tour. We arrived just as the ...

Whitehorse to Calgary ~ 02 Jul 2003
The journey back down the Alaska Highway from Whitehorse to Calgary wasn't as bad as I thought it would be; I rather enjoyed it actually and we used the midnight sun to our advantage. There were are...

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