I grew up, and spent a good chunk of my adult life, in the peninsula-shaped dangle of Ontario surrounded by three of the five Great Lakes.
Category: My Canada
My Canada, 6/150: The little rivers
Canada has big lakes, little lakes, marshes, wetlands: a complicated web of rivers connect them all.
My Canada, 5/150: The Pacific Ocean
The sunsets gobsmack me. Each one is different, caressing the ocean, playing in clouds, illuminating island and coastal mountains.
My Canada, 4/150: The Atlantic Ocean
It was the first hot week of the year and the Atlantic Ocean had some catching up to do.
My Canada, 3/150: Fish Point, Pelee Island, ON
A couple years ago I stood on what’s the south-most point you can reach in Canada.
My Canada, 2/150: Niagara Falls
Canadians are, truth be told, a bit smug about Niagara Falls.
My Canada, 1/150: The Elora Gorge, ON
I grew up near Elora, in the town of Elmira. “Ooooh,” people would say when I told them my hometown. “That’s so pretty! I love the gorge.” Ah no, I’d auto-correct. Elora. That’s the pretty place.
