Posts in Category: Canada
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Fort Walsh N.H.S.- Important to All Canadians
In my last post I described why Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park is a must visit for anyone interested in a totally unique ecological environment that will completely change your mind about Saskatchewan as a tourist destination. What I didn’t describe were the incredibly important historical events that took place here in the late 1800’s that […]
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Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park
I lived in northern Manitoba during my formative years and did a lot of travelling on the prairies, first with my family and in later years, on my own. I got to a lot of places, but one I repeatedly looked at on the map and never got to was the Cypress Hills of SE […]
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Trout Point Lodge – 12 Reasons You’ll Love It
This is an update to a post on Trout Point Lodge I first up in 2016 and includes details from subsequent visits in 2017 and in 2019 under the new ownership of Patrick and Pamela Wallace. Alison and I first published Exploring Nova Scotia in 1995 and followed it up with five more editions, the last in […]
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Fox Harbr – A Great Nova Scotian Golf Course
This is a post on Tim Horton’s co founder Ron Joyce’s golf resort on the Northumberland Strait in Nova Scotia, not far from the town of Tatamagouche where Joyce grew up. Firstly, I do know the correct spelling is Fox Harb’r, but SEO won’t permit any punctuation in the key word so I’ll stick with […]
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TMAC 2016 – Your Heart Will Never Leave
It’s been a couple of weeks since I returned home from TMAC 2016 on Cape Breton island and I’m still pinching myself about what a wonderful trip it was from beginning to end. For those not familiar with TMAC, it stands for The Travel Media Association of Canada and is an organization of writers, photographers, bloggers […]
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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 […]