Posts in Category: Canada
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Forges du Saint-Maurice NHS
This is my fourth and final post from a recent trip to Quebec to visit lesser known, but important National Historic Sites administered by Parks Canada. The three previous posts featured Grosse Ile, Chateau Saint-Louis and Fort Levis No. 1. In this post I’ll move away from the Quebec City area to Trois-Rivières some 130 […]
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Fort Levis No. 1 – Beware the Americans
This is the third of four posts I am writing about lesser known National Historic Sites in Quebec. The first featured Grosse Ile and the Irish Memorial while the second focused on the remains of Chateau Saint-Louis underneath Dufferin Terrace in Quebec City. In this one I’ll cross the St. Lawrence River and visit Fort […]
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Chateau Saint-Louis NHS – History Beneath Your Feet
This is the second of four posts I am writing on lesser known, but extremely important National Historic Sites in the Quebec City area. In the first post I visited Grosse Ile and the Irish Memorial NHS and learned about the 4 million + immigrants who first set foot on Canadian soil there, including my […]
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Grosse Ile NHS – Tragedy and Triumph
In the late 19th century my grandfather was brought by his mother and stepfather from County Antrim, Ireland to Canada. Since they settled in Nova Scotia, I always assumed that the point of entry was Halifax; until I visited the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21. There, with the help of the museum’s genealogists, […]
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St. Ignace GC – Hole-by-Hole
Two of my last hole-by-hole posts came from Kauri Cliffs and Cape Kidnappers, two New Zealand courses that are rated in the top 100 in the world. So you might ask yourself why I’m doing a hole-by-hole on St. Ignace, a course that doesn’t even show up on the Tourism New Brunswick list of the […]
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Minto Internment Camp Museum
Almost 99% of Canadian men and women who served either at home or abroad during WWII are now deceased. Memories of that worst of all worldwide conflagrations have faded and I am grateful for people like my friends at Liberation Tours for doing all they can to ensure that the sacrifices that were made for […]
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Crowbush Cove Hole by Hole
Technically it’s The Links at Crowbush Cove, but search engines don’t like posts that start with an article so in this post it will just be Crowbush Cove. I must confess that this is a course that I have only come to appreciate over the last few years. The reason for the initial reluctance to […]
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Covered Bridge GC – Hole by Hole
Alison and I recently completed a four day golfing tour of the mid Saint John Valley playing Aroostook Valley and Mactaquac, both great courses, but the star of the trip was undoubtedly Covered Bridge Golf Course in Hartland. While Aroostook Valley is notable for its location right on the United States border and Mactaquac as […]
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Twin Rivers GC Hole by Hole
Up until recently the only golf course I had played on the island of Newfoundland was the great course at Humber Valley which is currently ranked #28 in Canada on the SCORE Golf Top 100 Courses in Canada list. That course was designed by Doug Carrick one of the best of the modern Canadian golf […]