Almost halfway between Stanstead on the Canada-US border and Sherbrooke, Coaticook is a typical sleepy town with the rustic charm of the days of the horse and buggy. The landscape resembles that of southeastern French pre-Alps with the isolation of the Appalachian mountains. About one in five of the remaining Read more…
The township of Mono is a trapezoid-shaped administrative division in Dufferin County about 40 km northwest of Toronto. If you zoom in on Mono in Google Maps you’ll quickly realize that it has no significant population clusters. The nearest town, Orangeville, looks like it was carved out of Mono because Read more…
I used to have a few friends that lived in Seattle, but by the time I actually got to visit Seattle they’d already moved out to nicer towns with less construction, fewer crazy people, and safer roads. There’s really not too much to do that’s unique in Seattle. Perhaps its Read more…
Theodore Roosevelt was a champion of the conservation of geologically important sites so Devil’s Tower became America’s first national park site. This odd collection of stone pillars were once the core of a volcano formed my molten magma pushing up over 800 feet in the crater of the volcano. Over Read more…
A half-hourly ferry connects Amherst Island to Millhaven, Ontario, near Kingston. The gravel roads are a lot of fun to drive on, so much fun that I saw an elderly man skilled around corners in a small Honda hatchback. There isn’t much commerce on the island, so many of the Read more…
Located inside a military base in Kingston, the museum starts from the very beginning with flag signals and ends at modern electronic communications. There are recreations of Telegraph offices and radio rooms from the last century showing how the equipment was laid out at the time. Despite being in existence Read more…
Cambridge, England is home to the revered University of Cambridge. Cambridge, Massachusetts is home to the mighty Harvard University. Cambridge, Ontario is home to the humble McDougall Cottage Historic Site. The stone cottage was built in 1858 on the bank of the Grand River. It is named after the first Read more…
Famous, not as big as you’d imagine them to be, but still quite large for something constructed before the onset of the Second World War. Originally, it was meant to include the presidents’ torsos as well as their faces, but the death of a sculptor and the beginning of an Read more…
Just an hour away from Mount Rushmore, the Crazy Horse Memorial privately owned by a nonprofit foundation in the lands of the Lakota people. Built in memory to the legendary Crazy Horse who resisted the onslaught of European invaders, it is intended to become a university campus and a historical Read more…
Two ferries connect Howe Island to mainland Ontario. The west end ferry runs every half hour with breaks for crew at lunch and dinner, the east end ferry runs on an as-needed basis with no schedule because it only holds three cars at a time. While the west end ferry Read more…