The ruins of a church built in 1815 stand in Glengarry County, Ontario. The empty shell of the stone structure is all that is left after a fire ravaged the church in 1970. A modern church structure stands adjacent to the old one and continues to serve the community today. Read more
Glengarry County was settled by people of Scottish heritage and is rich in Scottish culture. The Glengarry Highlands Games are held every year to showcase Scottish competitiveness and attract about 20,000 people a year. It is the largest of its kind among the global Scottish diaspora. There’s enough to do Read more
Originally built to be the capital city of Canada, Kingston’s city hall is grander than it should be because it used to house the national legislature. It’s alignment with a waterfront park and position in the centre of the city gives it an unobstructed view of Lake Ontario to augment Read more
Toronto is big, diverse, and lively, but not much happens north of Toronto…until you reach Montreal in Quebec. French-speaking, metropolitan, and always open for business, Quebec has great food options and poutine stalls serving sodium-filled heart attacks round the clock. Here, red is red, no right turns allowed. Montreal’s metro Read more
Ottawa – the capital of the nation that I have mixed feelings for. If Toronto, Montreal, and Quebec City weren’t all fighting to be the capital, Queen Victoria wouldn’t have ordered it built in the first place. Geographically speaking, it’s neither here nor there, it’s not near the Atlantic Ocean Read more
Far out right? Nope, not anymore. Ever since the Evergreen extension to the Millenium Line opened, Coquitlam is only a 45-minute ride away from downtown Vancouver by SkyTrain. The quickest way of course, is by West Coast Express, which only takes about 30 minutes from downtown Vancouver, but only runs Read more
As beautiful as the Niagara Falls may be, the price of beauty is $20. I wouldn’t risk parking at the $12 lots just up the slope though because whenever you have to walk down to see the falls you’ll always have to hike back up to get your car. At Read more
I’ve been to Victoria when I was 9, but I don’t really remember too much from that visit so I decided to go again. Some tour company charged $150 for a day trip to Victoria from Vancouver by ferry, but I managed to do more for just $119.98, here’s how… Read more
Although the VPL has dozens of branches all over the city, my favorite location is the central library in downtown Vancouver. You might have noticed that I have an affinity for libraries having visited the Peabody Library, the Grimm Zentrum, and the Library of Congress on several occasions The central Read more
