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Category: Short hops

A day’s drive. Toronto, Quebec City, New York, like that. Sometimes a very short hop: The park, the river, to our neighbour’s house.

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Pumpkinferno and other after-dark near-adventures in Cornwall, Ont.

23 Oct 201823 Oct 2018
CORNWALL — There are times you go looking for adventure, and times when adventure finds you. And there are times when you spend an entire night skirting adventure and looking…
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A walk in the park: Coaticook Gorge, Foresta Lumina, Charles de Lint, and us

24 Sep 201824 Sep 2018
You just have to pay attention. If you don't, you'll miss them, or see something else — something you expected to see rather than what was really there. Faerie voices…
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A walk in the park: The devil at the Forges du Saint-Mauricie

17 Sep 201818 Sep 2018
The retelling of a legend from the historic Forges in La Mauricie is part of an occasional series exploring North America’s national, provincial and state parks.  The call was as common along…
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A well-travelled man and a dog named Big, surrounded by friends

10 Sep 201830 Aug 2018
CUSHING, Que. — The dog’s name is Big. He is black and white with a head the size of a five-pound bag of potatoes. We aren’t out of the car…
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Wherein my romance with rail is nourished in Brockville

11 Aug 2018
BROCKVILLE, ON — The Brockville Railway Tunnel is so old, its builders had to use gunpowder to blast through the bedrock — dynamite hadn’t been invented yet. Maybe that’s why…
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Trevor and me: A fast and furious Christmas anti-movie

9 Jan 201823 Apr 2018
We left between snowstorms and half an hour late. It was Christmas Day, and Trevor’s flight to Florida was at 2 p.m., leaving from Burlington, Vermont. There was more than…

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