Posts in Category: Canada
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Lachine Fur Trade National Historic Site
In the summer of 2025 I made a trip to Quebec for the express purpose of visiting and writing about a number of National Historic Sites that I had long wanted to see. These included Grosse Ile, Chateau Saint-Louis in the heart of old Quebec City, Fort Levis No. 1 and the very much underrated […]
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Laval-sur-le-Lac Green Course
Laval is the third largest city in Quebec with a population of just under 450,000 and has a recorded history dating back to 1636. There were 14 different municipal units on the island that became the city of Laval when they were amalgamated in 1965. One of these was Laval-sur-le-Lac which was and remains one […]
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National Field of Honour
Sometimes you stumble upon a place in the course of your travels that you can’t believe you didn’t know about before. Such was the case yesterday with my visit to the National Field of Honour in Pointe Claire, Quebec. Here’s how that came about. My son Bruce and his family live in Beaconsfield and I […]
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Vancouver’s North Shore – Where the Mountains Meet the Sea
Vancouver is world famous for its amazing location where the Coast Mountains and the Pacific Ocean combine to make for one the nicest places to live on the planet. But here’s the funny thing – the city of Vancouver and its major suburbs of Richmond, Surrey and New Westminster, are all pretty flat. The actual […]
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Banff Springs GC Hole-by-Hole
Stanley Thompson is unquestionably Canada’s most revered golf architect. He is to Canada what Old Tom Morris is to Scotland and Donald Ross to United States, and strangely enough both of them have a connection to Banff. Among the 175 or so courses Thompson is credited with nine are in Canadian National Parks of which […]
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Fredericton – The Maritimes Newest Golf Destination
Canada’s Maritime provinces have, in recent years, risen to the top of the list of must visit golf destinations in Canada. First it was Prince Edward Island, which promoted itself as Canada’s top golf vacation spot with courses like The Links at Crowbush Cove, the two great courses at Brudenell and a number in the […]
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Links of GlenEagles Hole-by-Hole
This will be my third hole-by-hole post from a recent trip to Alberta. The first two were from the Links and Old courses at Wolf Creek, both in the SCORE Golf Top 100. In this post Alison and I will play The Links of GlenEagles in Cochrane, just to the west of Calgary. This is […]
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Wolf Creek Old Course – Hole-by-Hole
In late August 2025 Alison and I embarked on a mini-golf tour of Alberta which started with the Wolf Creek Links course just outside of Ponoka. As I explained in my hole-by-hole post, avoiding the bunkers at all costs is the only way to score well on this Rod Whitman layout that is quite wide […]
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Wolf Creek Links Course – Hole-by-Hole
Wolf Creek Golf Resort, just outside Ponoka, Alberta and about 30 minutes north of Red Deer, is a 36 hole destination with two completely different courses designed by Rod Whitman, the same architect behind Cabot Links, the first true links course in Canada and currently #3 on the SCORE Golf Top 100. Years before Mr. […]