Queen’s Park is officially known as the Legislative Assembly of Ontario – the province’s elected lawmaking body. Here, which parties sit on the left or the right depend on who is in power, the majority sits on the left and Read more
While all the nice national museums are in Ottawa, the nice provincial museums are up to just as high a standard in Toronto. The ROM is the biggest brother of the provincial museums in the city. Spanning three maze-like floors, Read more
Anyone who has loved the Corning Museum of Glass in New York has to pop up to Toronto for the Gardiner Museum of ceramics. It displays ceramicware from all over the world throughout all periods of human history. Porcelain was Read more
Visitors have to go through security before entering the Toronto Police Museum on the ground floor of the force’s headquarters on College Street. The dimly-lit museum is a series of three exhibition galleries connected by snaking slopes. Admission is free. Read more
Just down the street from the Royal Ontario Museum and the Gardiner Museum, the Bata Shoe Museum is one of of the few free museums on Sundays in Toronto. Its story is basically the history of shoes and how different Read more
It’s a quirky Dallas museum with three focal points: Jewish history, the Holocaust and biblical arts. Anyone with a firm grasp of Christian history should have an easy time following along. There are plenty of ancient oil lamps, ancient maps Read more
Distance: 476kmLocation: Ontario, QuebecDates: November 17-18, 2023 Up front: Powered leather seats come as standard in the front row on all models with the driver’s seat and steering wheel moving out of the way automatically to make it easy to Read more
I visited Vancouver in January of 2024 and met up with my old secondary school principal from when I was in Hong Kong. We went on a school trip to Yangshuo and Nanchang, China in 2008 and 2009 respectively. He Read more
Kingston was an important defensive position on the St. Lawrence River facing rebellious America. Fort Henry is the largest fortification along the St. Lawrence waterway west of Quebec City. It was built.in response to the War of 1812 and the Read more
Location: ScotlandDate: 17 Sep, 2023Distance: 110km Up front: The portrait touch screen in useful for navigation with built-in Google Maps, but it really annoying that all the features are built into the screen. For example, it’s impossible to see the Read more