by janecanapini | Oct 5, 2019 | Adventure, Nature & Wildlife, Yukon
Totems in Carcross Commons, Yukon Anyone visiting the Yukon will obviously want to spend time in the Territory’s gateway city, Whitehorse. And there are plenty of things to see and do there, whether you want to shop for gold or tour an historic paddlewheeler....
by janecanapini | Sep 11, 2019 | Canada, Nature & Wildlife, Quebec
Call me Ishmael. Well, call me Ahab, actually, because like the obsessed captain from the novel Moby Dick, I was on the hunt for the white whale – only this time the white whale wasn’t some menacing giant out in the vast expanse of the open seas, but a smiling...
by janecanapini | Aug 29, 2019 | Art, Nature & Wildlife, Ontario
Nellie Lake near Killarney by AY Jackson, 1933 The impressionist paintings of Canada’s Group of Seven artists may be familiar to many of us in Canada (and many more of us now, thanks to actor Steve Martin’s high-profile interest in Lawren Harris.) But it’s only when...
by janecanapini | Aug 22, 2019 | Nature & Wildlife, Ontario, Photography
On August 14, 2003 the lights went out over half of North America in a massive power outage that left 50 million people without electricity. In cities like Toronto, people found themselves struggling to cope in an urban environment suddenly stripped of all power. But...
