Posts in Category: Canada
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Blue Mountain-Birch Cove Lakes Wilderness Area
It’s not very often that my travel writing and my day job as a lawyer converge on one topic, but that is precisely the case with the controversy that surrounded the Birch Cove Lakes a few years ago. This post will be my attempt to explain the history of the matter, the importance of […]
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St Peters Canal & Battery Point Park
I’m on my way to the 2016 Travel Media Association of Canada (TMAC) conference in Sydney and decided to take Highway #4 along the eastern side of Bras D’Or Lakes rather than the TCH which follows the western shore. My interest is in stopping at St Peters Canal one of the most important historic places […]
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CN Tower Edge Walk – Scary as Hell, But Who Cares?
I have to confess that I love the CN Tower. Whether you are flying into Pearson or Toronto Island airport it stands out as an iconic building that makes the Toronto skyline unique. Equally if you are walking almost anywhere within miles of the tower it will appear suddenly along a sight line down a […]
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Coaticook Gorge and Oka National Park
I almost hate to write this, but it is the final day of the Quebec RV trip. Our destinations have been the Outaouais and Eastern Townships regions of Quebec and for five straight days we’ve had phenomenal weather. Last night it rained heavily, but not until we’d had a chance to experience the out-of-this-world Foresta […]
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Foresta Lumina – A Must Visit Attraction in Coaticook Gorge
It’s time to move on again in our RV trip to Quebec. This morning we are leaving Yamaska National Park, where we have enjoyed two wonderful days, cycling the park, biking down Mount Bromont and visiting Granby Zoo.We are headed for the town of Compton, deep in the Eastern Townships and later the mysterious Foresta […]
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Granby Zoo and Biking Mount Bromont Too
After a great night’s sleep amidst the Appalachian forest at Yamaska National Park it’s time for my son Dale and I to try something neither of us has done before – taking a chairlift up and biking down a ski hill and after that visiting Granby Zoo. But first we need a hearty breakfast and I’m […]
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Yamaska National Park with a Stop at Beautiful Montebello
It’s the third day of the RV trip to the Outaouais region of Quebec with my adult son Dale. We’ve had a blast at the Chutes du Coulonge adventure park and the lovely Gatineau hills town of Wakefield. But already I’m having regrets – regrets that is about having to leave Plaisance National Park after […]
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Wakefield Quebec and the Gatineau Area
The Quebec RV trip has gotten off to a great start with two fantastic days and nights at Camp Leslie in Otter Lake which we used as an outpost to visit the fantastic adventure park at Chutes du Coulonge. However, there are places to go and people to see, so my adult son Dale and […]
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Chutes du Coulonge – Adrenalin Rush at the Adventure Park
In this post my son Dale and I will visit the Chutes du Coulonge in Quebec and visit the falls and the Adventure Park there which includes some truly hair raising challenges. But first, a few words on how we ended up in this seldom visited region of the province. For the past five years […]