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12Feb 201912 Feb 2019
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Bubby faced every challenge with head held high, back straight

We lost our Bubby last week. In a hotel in her hometown Winnipeg, my mother-in-law sat on one of the…

30Jan 201930 Jan 2019
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Fernandina and St. Augustine are in a battle for the ages

My favourite sort of gossip is the kind people spill about their home towns. Sometimes it’s the traditional kind of…

21Jan 201921 Jan 2019
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The Mütter Museum can be a hard button to swallow

A Pennsylvania farm boy in the 1870s was watching workers drill for oil on his family’s property. A drill bit…

Summer

A walk in the park: Lake Superior Provincial Park

25 Aug 201825 Aug 2018
Lake Superior Provincial Park, Ont. Part of an occasional series exploring North America’s national, provincial and state parks.  KATHERINE COVE — We had a disagreement as soon as we entered Lake Superior Provincial…
Summer

The little town of Kapuskasing was founded on fear

21 Aug 201821 Aug 2018
KAPUSKASING, ON — At first glance, Kapuskasing is just another railway town. Yet until the Great War, it was just Macpherson Station, a stop for trains to replenish their water…
Summer

A walk in the park: How to swim with polar bears

18 Aug 201819 Aug 2018
Polar Bear Habitat in Cochrane, Ont. Part of an occasional series exploring North America’s national, provincial and state parks. The images in this post were taken by Trevor Juhl. COCHRANE, ON — If…
Summer

Sometimes you need to shake the dust off — off-road

16 Aug 2018
AT THE QUEBEC/ONTARIO BORDER — Tensions were high in the car. Melani’s Google Maps app wouldn’t let her choose the path less taken and she was growing more frustrated by…
Summer

The Perseids, a wedding party, and a man named Danny

13 Aug 201813 Aug 2018
TRÉCESSON, QC — We arrived in Amos after dark and under cloudy skies the night the Perseid meteor shower peaked. It had taken us nine hours to do a seven-hour…
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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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