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Calgary Canada today is a sophisticated Alberta city with numerous modern buildings. But it wasn’t always that way. It was first settled more than 10,000 years ago. It began attracting European trappers, buffalo hunters, and fur and whiskey traders in the mid-19th century. The Northwest Mounted Police Force (since renamed the Canadian Royal Mounted …
One might think that Niagara Falls was formed about 50,000 years ago when Lake Erie and several other Great Lakes were formed from melting glacial ice. However, Niagara Falls is much younger. It was created when Lake Erie overflowed. The original falls, however, were located about seven miles north of their current location. They have […]
How do we determine where to eat when we travel? It starts with some advanced pre-trip research on restaurants that fit our criteria. We tend to favor places with locally sourced, sustainable seafood and interesting preparations. Once we get to a city, we ask knowledgeable locals for their favorite restaurants. Then we stop by to […]
Lake Louise is in Alberta’s Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies. The town is named for its eponymous, turquoise-colored glacial lake. The lake is surrounded by mountains, glaciers, and, at its head, the Fairmont Lake Louise hotel. A glacier formed the valley 2 million years ago. Another glacier deepened it during the last ice […]
Getting to Butchart Gardens Butchart Gardens is a 55-acre, family-run display garden with more than 900 different plant species maintained by 50 full-time gardeners. It is located in Brentwood Bay, British Columbia Canada about 40 miles outside of Victoria British Columbia. As we were traveling to the area from Vancouver, our hotel concierge told us […]
We went to Churchill Manitoba Canada to learn about and to see polar bears–the world’s largest land predator. Along the way, we learned a lot about polar bears and other animals and fauna of the subarctic tundra. While we didn’t necessary look at this trip as educational in terms of climate change, one cannot help […]