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Enjoying BC: Howe Sound & Sea to Sky

Featuredby Ana Ela 2 Comments

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. […]

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Abandoned Architecture, Howe Sound, Mountains, Ocean, Ontario, Road Trip, Toronto, Vancouver, Whistler

Life; Often In The Way

July 10, 2015by Ana Ela 14 Comments

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 […]

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BC, Europe, Ontario, Personal Blather, Serendipity, Victoria & Vancouver Island

Camp 30, Aerial

October 6, 2014by Ana Ela Leave a comment

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, […]

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Abandoned Architecture, Nature, Ontario, Road Trip, WWII

Bussing Through BC

October 2, 2014by Ana Ela 3 Comments

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 […]

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BC, Mountains, Road Trip

Entering Alberta

September 10, 2014by Ana Ela 4 Comments

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 […]

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Alberta, Mountains, Road Trip

St. Mary’s Mission, BC

May 9, 2014by Ana Ela 8 Comments

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’. […]

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Abandoned Architecture, Churches & Cathedrals, Fraser Valley, Nature

The In-Law Suite

November 27, 2013by Ana Ela 6 Comments

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 […]

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BC, Nature, Personal Blather

Goodbye Floaty Life, Hello Country Living

October 4, 2013by Ana Ela 9 Comments

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 […]

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BC, Nature, Personal Blather, Travel

The Reid Manor, Maple Ridge

October 1, 2013by Ana Ela 6 Comments

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. […]

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BC, Personal Blather, Serendipity, Travel

Thessalon, On The Huron

September 30, 2013by Ana Ela 6 Comments

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 […]

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Abandoned Architecture, Ontario, Road Trip

Iron Bridge, Tally-Ho!

August 30, 2013by Ana Ela 7 Comments

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 […]

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Abandoned Architecture, History, Ontario, Road Trip

Huron Shores

August 27, 2013by Ana Ela Leave a comment

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 […]

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History, Ontario, Personal Blather, Road Trip

Exile: Vanishing Slocan City

July 12, 2013by Ana Ela 2 Comments

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. […]

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Ghost Towns, Interior, Road Trip, WWII

Internment: New Denver

July 11, 2013by Ana Ela 2 Comments

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 […]

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Interior, Nature, Road Trip, WWII

Silvery Sandon

July 9, 2013by Ana Ela 8 Comments

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, […]

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Ghost Towns, Interior, Nature, Road Trip, WWII

WWII Internment: Kaslo, BC

July 8, 2013by Ana Ela 4 Comments

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 […]

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Interior, Nature, Road Trip, WWII

Internment: Greenwood, BC

July 5, 2013by Ana Ela 13 Comments

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 […]

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Ghost Towns, Gold Rush, Interior, Road Trip, WWII

BC’s Japanese Internment Camps

July 4, 2013by Ana Ela 18 Comments

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 […]

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Abandoned Architecture, Interior, Mountains, Travel, WWII

The Drive Home: A Photo Tour

June 26, 2013by Ana Ela 6 Comments

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 […]

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Interior, Mountains, Road Trip

The Revelstoke Dam

June 24, 2013by Ana Ela Leave a comment

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 […]

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Interior, Mountains, Road Trip

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