Category: Canada
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100th Meridian
Our time in Manitoba was primarily for visiting family. Our drive from Saskatoon brought us through vast fields as far as the eye could seen, some planted, many not yet as it has been a very cool wet spring. By mid afternoon we had arrived in Carberry MB, a matchbox-sized town just off the Trans…
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Rocky Mountain High
John Denver sang this song about the Rockies in Colorado but it could equally apply to Alberta’s Icefields Parkway, one of the most scenic drives in Canada. The road passes through a valley with a massive wall of snow capped, sharp peaked mountains on either side. Our favourite section of the road is at the…
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Tough City
Tofino is a tiny village on the western shores of Vancouver Island affectionately known as Tough City for its isolation and notoriously inclement weather. It’s also one of the most beautiful places in Canada and is visited by birders, hikers and surfers in large numbers. My nephew moved here last year to work at a…
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A City for a Queen
Victoria is the sleepy capital of British Columbia. Many visitors to the province seeking the city experience opt instead to visit the shiny metropolis, Vancouver, and if you’re a fan of Vancouver Island’s wilderness, you’re probably not terribly interested in visiting cities to begin with. So Victoria’s tourists tend to be of the cruise ship…
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Return to Cape Breton
After packing up from the Markland and leaving Dingwall we made our way to Ingonish to hike the Franey Trail. No visit to CB is complete without a pilgrimage to see the house my grandfather built in Dominion in the early 1930s. The house hasn’t been in the family since 1944, but we still like…
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Road trip to the briny coast
It had almost been 2 years to the day since the last time I had been east. The pandemic made it nearly impossible to visit Nova Scotia and there was no way I wanted visit the old folks and possibly bringing a contagion to their homes. With everyone vaccinated and the virus in retreat (at…
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Pukaskwa National Park
Another covid summer but why not make the most of it in one’s own backyard? For the second summer in a row we ventured to northern Ontario, this time to do some back country camping in one of the province’s most beautiful but least known parks. We spent the first night in the small car…
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Escape from pandemia
Months back, before the annus horribilus 2020 had made humanity a punchline, my partner and I contemplated our summer vacation plans without a care in the world for what was to come. Italy…Canary Islands…ooh, ooh, Scotland…so many possibilities. Then the pandemic rolled around and it looked like we would be setting our horizons so much…
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Winter Wonderland Jan 24-27
My partner and I decided to take a long weekend jaunt out to the Rockies when a seat sale presented us with cheap flights. My nephew works at the Fairmont Lake Louise, a famous hotel on a world renowned lake in Banff National Park and we thought it would be fun to pay him a…
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Postcards from Vancouver Island, Sept. 2019
On my recent trip to British Columbia during which I hiked the West Coast Trail (see previous post), I got to spend time exploring Vancouver Island. My trip started with a visit to Victoria and the surrounding area. Here are some photos. Pond in Beacon Hill Park Victoria harbour Rodents in Victoria Butchart Gardens is…
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