Category: History

  • Canadian museums worth visiting when traveling around the country

    Canadian museums worth visiting when traveling around the country

    When students think about visiting Canada, no one is thinking about their numerous awesome museums. However, students can gain some great benefits from visiting them. Here are a couple of other reasons why you should ensure that you visit some of the museums in Canada. Why it is important to visit a museum Visiting some…

  • Curious Mysteries at The Winnipeg Legislative Building

    Curious Mysteries at The Winnipeg Legislative Building

    Dan Browns famous novel “The Da Vinci Code” mixes history, mystery, and a curious plot that keeps pages turning. Whether you love it or hate it, I personally remember putting that book down several times while reading it and thinking “Woah, it all makes sense!“. That feeling of “what the…” is hard to come by.…

  • Getting Screeched In at Twillingate’s Anchor Inn

    Getting Screeched In at Twillingate’s Anchor Inn

    What is screech? And what exactly is a screech in? And what’s the procedure? Well, having gone through the Screech In process, I can proudly tell you all about it! I was recently in the gorgeous small town of Twillingate, the infamous small port town in North Central Newfoundland. It was there, with the help…

  • 8 Reasons I Can’t Get Churchill Off My Mind

    8 Reasons I Can’t Get Churchill Off My Mind

    This summer I had the opportunity to travel to the mecca of arctic adventures. Churchill, Manitoba – home of the polar bears, the belugas, tundra buggy’s, zodiac adventures, and some of the friendliest Canadians you’ll come to meet. In this small town of less than 1000 people, travellers from all over the world board VIA…

  • Why I Love Quebec & You Should Too!

    Why I Love Quebec & You Should Too!

    Located throughout this french Canadian region are a thriving people that have fought for their culture. The french Canadians are truly one of Canada’s brighter shades of colours, with decadent food, a thriving arts scene, a passion for history, and all things fun. While tensions between the french and the english have seen waves in…

  • The Giant Flowerpots at Hopewell Rocks

    The Giant Flowerpots at Hopewell Rocks

    Straining your neck upwards it’s hard to grasp the immensity of these massive boulders. Carved out of the landscape by thousands of years of erosion from the largest tides in the world, with the assistance of the hot heat of summer in New Brunswick and its frigid temperatures in the winter (known formally as “Freeze…

  • The Haunted Jail Hostel of Ottawa

    The Haunted Jail Hostel of Ottawa

    I walk gently down the creaking skinny corridors, grazing the smooth black iron bars of the jail cells that once housed the guilty, the innocent, the crazy, the murderous, and the drunk. Some of these cellars would have been the final form of accommodations as several of the detainees in these cells were put to their…

  • Panning for Gold at Claim 33

    Panning for Gold at Claim 33

    The Yukon, home of the largest gold rush in history. 100,000 stampeders from across the world invaded the region in search of riches. While only 30,000 to 40,000 actually made it across the treacherous terrain, and only a few thousand even struck gold, people continued to flock. Gold fever they call it! It’s a game of chance…

  • Remembering the Victims of the Titanic in Halifax Nova Scotia

    Remembering the Victims of the Titanic in Halifax Nova Scotia

    100 Years ago the Titanic hit an iceberg that caused the deaths of  over 1,500 lives. While many seem to only remember the event through the romantic movie, friends and family of victims, survivors, and rescuers continue to honour the event, and with it being the 100th anniversary many history lovers found themselves in a…