Posts in Category: Canada
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Dundarave Hole by Hole – Just Amazing
In my first post from a trip to Prince Edward Island a few years ago I featured a hole by hole post on the wonderful course at Mill River. From here Alison I moved east to Brudenell River Resort. While the resort itself was closed due to the Covid restrictions that have prevented it from […]
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North Cape Coastal Drive PEI
In late February, 2020 Alison and I returned from a trip to Central America just as the entire world was about to change in ways that were unimaginable at the beginning of the year. As travel writers our plans for a trip to Australia, New Zealand and Tahiti in April and May died in the […]
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Mill River Golf Course – Hole by Hole
This is my first post on travel in the time of a pandemic. Alison and I last travelled in late February when we ended our trip through Central America at Ambergris Caye in Belize. The next day we flew back to Canada and within a week the entire world changed as first international and then […]
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Fort York – Toronto’s Almost Hidden Past
Over the past fifty years I have visited Toronto well over a hundred times and yet, until a few days ago, I had never ventured to Fort York where the foundations for this largest of Canadian cities were laid over 200 years ago. The site of one of the most famous battles of the […]
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The Forks – Winnipeg’s Kick Ass Destination
I used to live in Winnipeg – the key words being ‘used to’. Frankly, I couldn’t wait to get out of the place when I moved to Nova Scotia to attend law school and that’s where I’ve remained ever since. However, I still have family and friends in Winnipeg and have returned many times over […]
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Mississagi River Valley – Ontario at Its Best
I’m driving along the Trans-Canada Highway in northern Ontario passing towns I haven’t thought about since I lived in the small company town of Lively, just outside of Sudbury, more years ago than I care to confess to. Espanola, Spanish, Blind River and Iron Bridge go by before I arrive at Thessalon and the right […]
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Butchart Gardens – Canada’s Garden of Eden
Gardening runs in my family and is one of my favourite pastimes, but so is visiting famous gardens such as I recently did in Philadelphia’s Longwood Gardens and South Carolina’s Brookgreen Sculpture Gardens. I first learned of Butchart Gardens from a grade 4 or 5 reader that featured stories of life in Canada from coast […]
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Spirit Culinary Excursions & Chef Shirley Lang
One of the great benefits of being a travel writer is that you sometimes get, for free, experiences that others are willing to shell out serious money to participate in. Such was the case at the recent TMAC conference in Victoria when I got to spend a day on a Pacific Ocean Dining Immersion put […]
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Kootenay National Park – The Burgess Shale
This is the final post of four on a recent RV trip to four fabulous national parks in the fall. The first three were on Mount Revelstoke, Glacier and Yoho and frankly each one has surpassed its predecessor. However, that’s somewhat akin to claiming that Gretzky was better than Orr or Howe when in fact, they were all great. […]