Enjoying BC: Howe Sound & Sea to Sky
This post is the final installation of the photographic journey depicting our last few days spent enjoying beautiful British Columbia before moving across Canada to our new home in Toronto, Ontario. […]
Tag Archives: Canada
Life; Often In The Way
I have mentioned a few times how important it is to cherish every moment you have while on your travels (here & here), because you never know what life will throw […]
Camp 30, Aerial
On my most recent visit to Ontario Canada, I took a friend to the Nazi POW Camp historical site – ‘Camp 30’ in Bowmanville. He happened to bring a quad, […]
Bussing Through BC
There is nothing boring about taking the Greyhound bus through British Columbia. The views are incredible, and the roads ‘white knuckle’. It takes a special kind of person to choose […]
Entering Alberta
Well, we have made it to the cold, already snowy, part of our tour… hello Alberta! Though it is NEVER comfortable to sleep on the bus, we have managed and […]
St. Mary’s Mission, BC
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Mission (formerly and formally known as ‘Mission City’), British Columbia was named after a Mission that landed here in 1861 (functional in 1863). It was named ‘St. Mary’s Mission School’. […]
The In-Law Suite
Cancer has brought me to places I never, ever thought I would go. Discovering his diagnosis set my Father on a new path. It was now time to do the […]
Goodbye Floaty Life, Hello Country Living
I have been quite enjoying the yard here at Reid Manor. Quite a change from the distinct lack of land that the floaty home had to offer. Sometimes I find […]
The Reid Manor, Maple Ridge
Life as a habitual runaway can lead you many interesting places. Though I thought we had made a permanent settlement, it turns out that just was not to be so. […]
Thessalon, On The Huron
Our next stop, for reasons based on hunger alone, would be the small town of Thessalon. LAKE HURON Located on the shores of Lake Huron, Thessalon is a small town […]
Iron Bridge, Tally-Ho!
There are a number of abandoned homesteads to admire in the area of Iron Bridge. The community embraces them as historical artifacts, worthy of beautiful photography. Two abandoned homes in […]
Huron Shores
We were about to enter a small village that would make for a great break between the bad drivers and community degradation. I don’t know how long we had been […]
Exile: Vanishing Slocan City
Slocan, developed in the 1890’s mining rush, is only about 1/2 hour from New Denver or 8 1/2 hours east of Vancouver, BC. It sits at the entry to Valhalla Provincial Park. […]
Internment: New Denver
Named after Denver Colorado, New Denver – a village of about 500, was briefly known as Eldorado City. Developed in the 1890’s as a mining town, New Denver did not […]
Silvery Sandon
Sandon is located in the interior of British Columbia in the Selkirk mountain range, in an area known as ‘The Valley of the Ghosts’. It lies an hour from Kaslo, […]
WWII Internment: Kaslo, BC
The drive to Kaslo is quite beautiful. Rolling mountains and long, green valleys. There is not much reason to drive up to this area, as Kaslo is not along the […]
Internment: Greenwood, BC
Greenwood, British Columbia is known as Canada‘s smallest city. Given its status in the late 1800’s during a gold rush boom, though the population decreased to a current total of […]
BC’s Japanese Internment Camps
Like most everywhere on the planet, Canada has its own abysmal history. Perhaps the darkest stain on our record occurred during the WWII Japanese internment. Japanese persons began immigrating to […]
The Drive Home: A Photo Tour
Our time in the mountains was coming to an end. Now, we had only to make the 6 1/2 hour drive home. We chose to take the ‘long way’ home […]
The Revelstoke Dam
We didn’t have a plan to visit the Revelstoke dam, but our last day was full of inclement weather – a crazy, windy, unpredictable rainstorm. We thought taking cover inside somewhere […]
