Travel Tips & Stories from British Columbia and Beyond
The drive from Dauphin to Gimli is rather enjoyable as you drive through the Interlake region of Manitoba, past small rural towns, many lakes, and old Ukrainian churches. Unexpectedly, I found a sign pointing to Fisher Branch, the birthplace of my …
Driving north to Dauphin from Riding Mountain National Park, I began to realize just how enormous the national park really was. I realized that my experiences in the park hardly exceeded beyond the immediate Wasagaming area, and that I seriously …
Did you know that there’s an Austin in Manitoba? It’s a tiny town, located about a two hour drive west of Winnipeg along the TransCanada Highway. I was on my way there to experience the 59th annual Threshermen’s Reunion and …
How do you describe The Forks and what it represents to Winnipeg? As a Vancouverite, my Winnipegger friends would often describe The Forks as “the Granville Island of Winnipeg”; Granville Island being a former industrial site turned whimsical marketplace, beloved …
So far I experienced a lot of firsts in my first few days in Manitoba: my first CFL game, my first fossil dig, and then on a sunny afternoon, my first rodeo. If there’s one place to immerse yourself in …
Update: This was a review of an event from 2013, but keeping it up here as a time capsule reminder. Vancouver’s biggest FREE outdoor music festival, the Khatsahlano Music + Arts Festival, is taking over Kitsilano’s W 4th Avenue on Saturday, …
The Vancouver International Wine Festival seemed to go as quickly as it arrived this year. Just as I was getting over the initial shock to the system from the launch (ahem), it seemed like we were already lamenting the end …