Posted in Canadian Travel on May 6th, 2008
If you are traveling in Canada near Vancouver, be sure to visit Cortes Island. The island boasts a number of attractions, but none is as unusual as Wolf Bluff Castle.
Wolf Bluff is not your average castle. It is new enough that its age is measured in years, not decades or centuries. It is not [...]
Posted in Canadian Travel on Apr 8th, 2008
The story of the doomed ocean liner Titanic has captured the imagination of people all over the world since the day it sank. Halifax, in Nova Scotia, Canada is a largely unknown part of Titanic history.
After the Titanic sank, the White Star Line chartered four ships from Canada to search for survivors. Two of them, [...]
Posted in Canadian Travel on Feb 5th, 2008
Very old school.
If you’re traveling in Ontario, Canada with your kids anytime between May 1st and September 8th and find yourself anywhere near Greater Sudbury, make some time, a day would be best, to detour to Dinosaur Valley Mini Golf for a unique experience in family entertainment. Open from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. seven [...]
Posted in Canadian Travel on Jan 18th, 2008
Bernard Callebaut grew up in Belgium next door to the factory where his family had been making chocolate for the previous four generations. In 1980, when the family decided to sell the Belgian chocolate business to Swiss chocolate giant Suchard Toblerone (they still owned, among other things, a brewery), Bernard decided to emigrate.
We wanted to [...]
Posted in Canadian Travel on Nov 13th, 2007
The first Stampede was held in 1912 and attracted almost 40.000 visitors its first year, far more than anyone expected. Attendance at the 2006 Stampede was a record-breaking 1.26 million people. Stampede organizers recommend that anyone who wants to attend the event make reservations well in advance.
The Stampede is famous for its chuck-wagon race, reminiscent [...]
Posted in Canadian Travel on Jul 24th, 2007
The tides in the Bay of Fundy, the waterway between the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, are the highest in the world, with an estimated 100 billion tons of water rolling in and out of the bay twice daily.
One of the best places to see this phenomenon in action is Hopewell Rocks [...]
Posted in Canadian Travel on Jul 17th, 2007
What does Santa do all summer? If you have been asked this question one too many times, this year travel to Bracebridge, Ontario, Canada and find the answer.
Bracebridge, just north of Toronto, sits on the 45th parallel, halfway between the Equator and the North Pole. Since 1955, Bracebridge has been home to Santa’s Village Family [...]
Posted in Canadian Travel on Jul 10th, 2007
Prince Edward Island, Canada, known for its scenic vistas and rich agricultural tradition, is best known to literary fans as the home of a little orphan named Anne Shirley.
Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of the Anne of Green Gables series, was born on Prince Edward Island and used the island as the setting for 19 of [...]
Posted in Canadian Travel on Apr 17th, 2007
The Canadian Museum of Civilization is dedicated to the preservation and display of Canada’s history and to the culture and art of the First Peoples (a common Canadian term for the pre-European native population of Canada).
The Museum, in Hull, Quebec, is across the Ottawa River from Parliament Hill, Ottawa. Douglas Cardinal designed the two massive [...]