Posts in Category: Canada
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Fundy Trail Parkway – Drive It In 2021!
New Brunswick’s Fundy Trail Parkway joins Nova Scotia’s Cabot Trail and Newfoundland and Labrador’s Viking Trail as one of the great scenic drives, not just in Atlantic Canada, but in all of North America. Here’s why you must drive it, bike it or hike it soon. It was late September, 2020 and Alison I were […]
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West Hills G.C.- Fredericton’s Great New Layout
Prior to the pandemic, many people seemed to think that golf was a sport on the decline with a number of clubs in Canada struggling to maintain a viable membership. All that changed in the summer of 2020 as people realized that golf was one sport that you could play without many Covid restrictions. The […]
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Kings Landing – Where Past is Present
Long before George R.R. Martin dreamed up King’s Landing as the principal city in Game of Thrones, there existed a real Kings Landing on the Saint John River just north of Fredericton, New Brunswick. Despite visiting New Brunswick on dozens of occasions over the years, Alison and I actually got to the site of the fictional […]
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Kingswood Golf Course Hole by Hole
Kingswood Golf Course on the outskirts of Fredericton opened in 2003 to accolades including being named Canada’s best new course and I have wanted to play it ever since. The course was originally named The Lynx at Kingswood Park, but thankfully that overly artsy named was dropped in favour of the more properly descriptive Kingswood. […]
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Highlands Links – Stanley Thompson’s Masterwork
Stanley Thompson is, without question, Canada’s most well known, most prolific and most respected golf architect. The creator of over 150 golf courses, most in Canada, he was a cofounder of the American Society of Golf Architects and even has his own society of dedicated followers intent on preserving his legacy. Beginning in 1924 with Jasper […]
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Cabot Links – Canada’s First True Links Course
The story of Cabot Links resort and its two now world famous courses is amazing and one I first told in this post on the Cabot Cliffs course so I won’t repeat it here. Suffice it to say that Cabot Cliffs is #1 in Canada and #11 in the world while its older brother, Cabot […]
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Pier 21 – Canada’s Amazing Immigration Museum
My last post on this website was from Georges Island National Historic Site from where I took this post’s featured image of the waterside of Pier 21, Canada’s Museum of Immigration; the same view that nearly one million immigrants who passed through its doors between 1928 and 1971 had as their ships berthed in Halifax. […]
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Georges Island – Halifax’s Hottest New Destination
For more years than I care to remember, I would stroll the Halifax waterfront and stare out at Georges Island and wonder what it would be like to actually set foot on this historic and mystery shrouded place. Up until the summer of 2020 that’s all one could do other than take a photo like […]
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Greenwich Dunes – The Best of PEI
This is my sixth post from a recent golf trip to Prince Edward Island, but Alison and I have been doing much more than just playing golf. During our stay in Mill River we took the time to explore some new destinations along the North Cape Coastal Drive in western PEI. While at Brudenell River […]