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Can You Identify This Mystery Song?

Update: mystery solved! The mystery song is Ammunition by All Good Children, a band from Hamilton, Ontario. Thanks to everyone who had fun helping us solve this mystery! Big thanks to Stephen Quinn and Lisa Christiansen from CBC Radio One’s On the Coast …

updated on January 27, 2023November 13, 201554 Comments on Can You Identify This Mystery Song?
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Keukenhof tulips in May 2013
Europe Travel

Tulips in Holland: Keukenhof in May

When you think of Holland, you think tulips, and when you’re in Amsterdam in the spring, a visit to Keukenhof in May seems like the most natural thing to do, regardless of whether your Dutch colleagues roll your eyes when you mention …

updated on January 27, 2023May 10, 20150 Comment on Tulips in Holland: Keukenhof in May
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Vancouver's Chinatown
Vancouver

Vancouver’s Chinatown isn’t Pretty

Vancouver’s Chinatown isn’t pretty, but no one can deny that it has character. One of the oldest neighbourhoods in all of Vancouver, it’s steeped in local history. For a photographer, there are few urban spaces in Vancouver that deliver the same sense of stimuli. If …

updated on June 25, 2018April 26, 20156 Comments on Vancouver’s Chinatown isn’t Pretty
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Magnolias in Vancouver. Photo: Robyn Hanson
Vancouver

Love letter to spring in Vancouver

Those who claim that Canada doesn’t experience a proper spring have clearly never been to Vancouver. That’s the first thing that popped into my head when I was walking home on Thursday after a short run through my East Vancouver …

updated on January 26, 2023March 14, 20152 Comments on Love letter to spring in Vancouver
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Record Swap: Photo: Robyn Hanson
Vancouver

Things to do in Vancouver in March

I’ve started a new monthly blog feature: a short roundup of things to do in Vancouver every month, highlighting some of my favourite events and activities in the Vancouver region that I feel are worthy of putting on your radar. …

updated on March 19, 2015March 5, 20150 Comment on Things to do in Vancouver in March
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Robyn at Tulips of the Valley
British Columbia

Tulips of the Valley: BC’s very own tulip festival

Note: This was originally published in 2014. While Tulips of the Valley no longer happens, you can attend the Chilliwack Tulip Festival, also in the Fraser Valley. Did you know that BC has its own tulip festival? A two hour …

updated on April 10, 2022April 26, 201412 Comments on Tulips of the Valley: BC’s very own tulip festival
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Japanese plum blossoms
Nature Vancouver

Happy First Day of Spring!

Happy First Day of Spring! You know it’s going to be good day when you wake up to find blue skies, sunshine, and fresh snow on the North Shore mountains. It’s such a phenomenal first day of spring in Vancouver, …

updated on March 19, 2015March 20, 20140 Comment on Happy First Day of Spring!
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Robyn Hanson

Storyteller, nature nerd, food lover, and former tourism professional living south of Vancouver at the mouth of the Fraser River in xʷməθkʷəy̓əm territory.

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    The Uncertain Future of Finn Slough: The Contemporary History of A Marginalized Society

    February 8, 2021

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