Short hops 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…
Short hops 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…
Short hops 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…
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…
Short hops A walk in the park: Fort Chambly 2 Jul 201714 Aug 2017 Part of an occasional series exploring North America’s national, provincial and state parks. I don’t know, maybe Parks Canada employees train alongside the Disney people or something. Because these folks are happy.…
