EVERY CITY NEEDS A GREAT PARK. It’s hard to imagine the world’s urban centres without their iconic parks – Manhattan’s Central Park, Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, the Bois du Boulogne in Paris, Montreal’s Mount Royal Park, Berlin’s Tiergarten, Stanley Park in …
5 Things to See at Niagara Falls (that aren’t the Falls)
YOU COULD SAY THAT THERE’S NOTHING AT NIAGARA FALLS THAT ISN’T THERE BECAUSE OF THE FALLS. The town, its attractions, even the Niagara River Gorge itself – none of those things would be here if it weren’t for the incredible …
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Wonder: Shooting Niagara Falls from (nearly) Every Angle
SOMETIMES I FORGET THAT I LIVE A SHORT TRAIN RIDE FROM ONE OF THE WORLD’S NATURAL WONDERS. It’s there, just a tap of a commuter rail pass away, but I’ve still only been to Niagara Falls a handful of times …
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All Hat, No Cattle: A Tenderfoot’s Trip to Calgary Stampede
EVERY TOWN HAS ITS SUMMER FAIR, BUT ALMOST NO ONE GOES AS BIG AS CALGARY DOES WITH STAMPEDE. For over a hundred years – the exact beginning is up for debate – Calgary has been celebrating its very prairie image …
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First Time at NASCAR with the People of Talladega
EVERYBODY KNOWS THE HISTORY OF NASCAR BY NOW, RIGHT? Moonshiners and bootleggers with juiced-up cars built to outrun the law start racing on dirt tracks, and end up starting a billion dollar motorsport empire that takes place on massive racetracks …
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North to James Bay on the Polar Bear Express
THIS WAS A TRIP I HAD DREAMED OF TAKING SINCE I WAS A KID. The journey to James Bay from Cochrane, Ontario wasn’t the most glamorous or scenic of all the railway trips I took during Canada’s sesquicentennial year. There …
