I started traveling extensively in Canada during the Covid-19 pandemic when I got bored and looked at where the government would permit me to travel on a map. Turns out, Ontario is the largest of the provinces by population and the second-largest, Quebec, is right next doors. Before the lockdown Read more
Built in 1963 to receive signals from the first generation of NATO military satellites, the Canadian Space Services Carp station was decommissioned in 1999 and sold to a private company for space research. The large dome measures 68 feet across housing a 50-foot radar. Today, a variety of researchers and Read more
Canada’s capital Ottawa has a bunch of nice museums, but the one I least expected to see was the National Scout Museum. I was a Cub Scout as a child so I knew about the uniform, badges, and activities, what I didn’t know was that there were Canadian scouts in Read more
I’ve been horse racing in Hong Kong and Greyhound racing In Macau. I thought I knew how to read classes and handicaps until I watched harness racing in Ottawa where each horse pulls a two-wheeled cart that carries a jockey. The mode of racing might be different, but the horse Read more
At first, when I looked up the place in Cleveland I thought it would be a museum on maritime science and weather patterns of the Great Lakes, like the National Museum of the Great Lakes. But I was wrong. It’s just a family-oriented science museum located on the Great Lakes. Read more
Being the richest man in Oshawa, McLaughlin funded many community services, including this gallery. It has one piece of art from each of the Group of Seven, a Norval Morisseau, and many, many contemporary works of art that bring in immigrant perspectives of Canada. Like the Ottawa Art Gallery, many Read more
Every April, Vancouver’s streets bloom with cherry blossoms that came from Japan as a gift in honour of Japanese Canadians who joined the Canadian army in the First World War. The city has turned this natural phenomenon into an annual festival to cash in on its cultural ties with the Read more
It’s an aged museum with exhibits that feel like they were handed down from the US. In just the weather gallery alone, distances are measured in miles, videos are from NOAA, and exhibits come from Colorado even though the museum is in Regina. However, it is informative in the sense Read more
The University of Regina is a lot newer than the University of Saskatchewan. It used to be the same university until it spun off in 1974. With a lot of the buildings being newer, there are seamless transitions from building to building with many of them built in the 1990s. Read more
Walter Scott, the first premier of Saskatchewan, hosted a competition for the legislative building to be built in Regina in 1905. The design by the Maxwell Brothers from Montreal was chosen and the building was completed in 1912. It was initially designed to be constructed with red brick before Scott Read more