We both grew up with the Rocky Mountains within reach. The image of their grandeur, whether right in front of us or just as faint peaks on the horizon, is…
There was probably no better possible time for us to stop at a spa. Given the punishment we had given ourselves earlier in the day with physical activity in the…
It is highly unlikely that I will now ever forget that Québec CIty was founded in 1608 by Samuel de Champlain. If you had asked me a few weeks ago…
Quinton Crow Shoe sat amid an array of artifacts and against a backdrop adorned with colourful diamond shapes and stark black buffalo. It was the concluding stop on our tour…
They moved quickly and quietly for creatures of such substantial girth. Their coarse hair often hung over their eyes and was laced with straw and other debris. Yet they seemed…
It was mere minutes after the Delawana from Nova Scotia lost to the Esperanto from Massachusetts in the inaugural International Fisherman’s Cup in 1920 that the idea for the Bluenose…
I looked past Pete to the view out of the driver side window as we turned north from home. The mountains, at least 100kms west of us, still had snow…
Growing up in Alberta, our falls were unremarkable. There was little variation in the changing colors of the leaves – a lot of yellow, brown, and if we were lucky,…