Two buddies tour the state of Maine, visiting Portland, Bar Harbor and run the wild rapids of the Kennebec.
Who Was Egerton Yorrick Davis?
The author of a series of ribald hoax letters printed in various medical journals was in fact perhaps the greatest physician to emerge from Canada.
VE-Day Riots: Halifax
Walking the quaint streets of Halifax on a pleasant spring afternoon, the last thing you’d expect to see would be mass drunkenness, vandalism, looting and public orgiastic sex. But this is exactly the scene which greeted passers-by on May 8, 1945, VE-Day.
The Tangled Garden
When in Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley, don’t miss the superb Tangled Garden!
The Semi-Palmated Sandpiper And I
About an hour’s drive from my home in Nova Scotia the majority of the world’s semi-palmated sandpipers (Calidris pusilla) stop every year to gorge on “mud shrimp” on the mud flats of the Bay of Fundy’s Minas Basin.
The Thinking Person’s Guide To Las Vegas
Las Vegas conjures up images of gambling, mobsters and scantily clad women, but it’s so much more.
Putting Your Head In The Clouds In Costa Rica
Costa Rica’s Monteverde Cloud Forest offers visitors the chance to dive into in a unique eco-system adventure without even getting out of bed.
Crushing The Cane
A laborer passes cane through the crusher to extract all the juice so that it might be fermented in order to produce rum at The River Antoine Distillery.
Cluny Macpherson And The Gas Mask
Was the gas mask invented by a Canadian? Yes and no. Cluny Macpherson was born in St. John’s, Newfoundland on March 18, 1879. Attending McGill University, Macpherson punctuated his medical studies on an altruistic note by volunteering for the Royal National Mission for Deep Sea Fishermen, later known by the more manageable moniker of the […]
The Bulb
Canadians spend much of their lives depending on artificial sources of illumination. Few realize that they have fellow countrymen Henry Woodward and Mathew Evans to thank for this.
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