Posts in Category: Canada
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Winnipeg – An Early Morning Walking Tour and History Lesson
When I’m travelling I always try to get up at first light to see if there is going to a ‘magic hour’. This is the brief period of time in the very early morning and late dusk that creates the best light conditions for photographs. It took three days, but on the third morning in […]
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Winnipeg Mint – Well Worth a Visit While in the Winnipeg Area
In a previous post I described how important and influential the city of Winnipeg was to my upbringing and yet ultimately how and why I made the decision to leave her. Initially I returned to The Pas to work for the CN as first an operator/crew clerk and then in my dream job as a […]
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Canadian Museum for Human Rights will Transform Winnipeg
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights will open in Winnipeg this September and I believe it will entirely transform the city in the same manner that the Guggenheim Bilbao has transformed that northern Spanish city; so first a little history of Bilbao and how it is changing from a cultural backwater to a must see […]
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Winnipeg Manitoba – How My Affair with this Prairie City Began
My affair with Winnipeg Manitoba began innocently enough; I was an eleven year old boy with an overbite so pronounced I could have been a stand-in for Beaver Cleaver. At a time when orthodontics were unknown in northern Manitoba my parents deemed it necessary to have this situation corrected and how they found the name […]
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Skating Across Nova Scotia – How to Do it in One Day
Here’s a story I wrote about an adventure I participated in a few years ago when my legs could still skate for six hours straight. That’s the kind of endurance you require if you want to try skating across Nova Scotia in one day. Sounds impossible? Here’s why it’s not. If you are a cross-country […]
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The Restigouche – Three Days of Paddling this Famous River
The Restigouche is one of Atlantic Canada’s fabled salmon rivers. At the right time of year a long section of the river from the confluence of the Kedgwick to the mouth of the Upsalquitch is virtually a deserted wilderness. It’s usually easy paddling, with no portages and only the occasional stretch of very mild white […]
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Petit Train du Nord – Cross-Country Skiing a Quebec Legend
In the last post I described why Alison and I decided to leave Nova Scotia in mid January and head to Mont Tremblant for some cross-country skiing. Although we did not find the skiing at Domaine St. Bernard all that great, we were really looking forward to skiing a portion Le Petit Train du Nord […]
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Mont Tremblant – Don’t Overlook the Great Cross Country Skiing Here
Usually you don’t leave your home base because the weather’s too good, but that was the case yesterday as we decided to go in search of winter. All of our snow was melted by the torrential rains of the past few days. The temperatures were close to record breaking, but there wasn’t much you could […]
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ATVers Cannot Exist on Trails with Walkers, Bikers and X-Country Skiers
This was the first post I ever wrote on my Maritime Explorer website. Since then it has been followed by almost five hundred more from eight provinces, nineteen states and thirty-three countries. It was kind of disappointing that my first post on the Maritime Explorer was a negative one, because the vast majority of subsequent […]