| Image from Flickr/Brendan Henry via CC BY NC ND | Simply put, cities do not have a lock on amazing, modern architecture. The raw, sparse tip of an island in the North Atlantic might not be where you expect to see some of the most striking architecture in Canada, but then you probably wouldn’t expect… Read More 365 Canadian Sights | Day 212: Architecture Week – Fogo Island Inn
No all great architecture has to be something built from the ground up. Renovations can sometimes be great sources of creativity. When I first saw the ROM I was confused, to be honest. I wasn’t sure if it was supposed to look like that, or if I was looking at it from a weird angle.… Read More 365 Canadian Sights | Day 211: Architecture Week – The Royal Ontario Museum
Canada has a few iconic buildings, but not all of the country’s most interesting buildings are famous. At one time the most famous building in Vancouver, the Marine Building is one of the finest examples of Art Deco architecture. That’s the whole sentence. Not in B.C., or Canada. In the world. Built in 1930, it… Read More 365 Canadian Sights | Day 210: Architecture Week – Marine Building
Terry Fox would have been 61 today. Instead, he died, of cancer, a month short of his 23 birthday. In just over a year he’d gone from a young man from B.C. with a dream to a national icon to an unintended martyr for his cause. Growing up in B.C. Terry Fox was an iconic… Read More 365 Canadian Sights | Day 209: Terry Fox Memorial
Standing 311 m above the Salish Sea, it may not be the tallest hill in the area, but Mount Galiano offers some of the best views in Canada. That’s right, this isn’t a sight that is a sight OF a thing, but a sight FROM a thing. From the southernmost peak on Galiano Island, one… Read More 365 Canadian Sights | Day 208: Mt. Galiano
The strangest thing I find about this balancing rock is how angular it is. Most balancing rocks look like they’ve been worn down by time and wind and water, but this one, made of basalt, is all right angles and straight lines, relatively speaking. If I had to guess, I think it fell there and… Read More 365 Canadian Sights | Day 207: Digby Balancing Rock
In the middle of a beautiful conservation area lies the ruins of an industrial building closed during the great depression. Built over 120 years ago, production at the Harris Woolen Mill lasted several decades, making items like blankets for the Canadian Army, but as the Great Depression hit Canada, it was one of the victims,… Read More 365 Canadian Sights | Day 206: Harris Woolen Mill
On often touched upon idea in this project and in discussions about Canada is the ‘vastness’ of the land, especially the north. Let’s do that again. This is a relatively easy sight to see in the north, and still it seems relatively unknown. Part of Hay River, Alexandra Falls are massive. Like, photographers can have… Read More 365 Canadian Sights | Day 205: Alexandra Falls
Another classic windmill, this stone structure is over 300 years old which means even though it looks like the set of some French period piece, it’s legit. It may look a lot like Pointe-du-Moulin and that’s for good reason; they’re both around the same age and built in the same style, which was common at the… Read More 365 Canadian Sights | Day 204: Pointe-Claire Windmill
As anyone who knows Canada knows, the gold rushes in the west and northwest of the country were formative to the fabric of the country as a whole. Evidence of those rushes is still around, even when the people and towns aren’t. While the aforementioned Barkerville was the kingpin and its restoration as a historic site… Read More 365 Canadian Sights | Day 203: The Bennett Lake Church
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