I still have those skis – all wood, antique-looking now, the kind of thing hipsters pronounce “authentic.”
Tag: Canada150
My Canada, 12/150: Parka People
Canada doesn’t have an official “costume” the way Germans have lederhosen and dirndl or Scots have kilts. But I’m puttin’ it out there: a parka comes close.
My Canada, 11/150: Down on the farm
Canada began as a rural nation: more than 80 per cent of people lived in rural areas in the 1870s.
My Canada, 10/150: Ski-doo to you too
In Canada, Bombardier’s Ski-doo became king, the term a generic equivalent to “snowmobile”.
My Canada, 9/150: Snow bound
Snow in winter is ingrained in our Canadian ways.
My Canada, 8/150: The St. Lawrence River
Of course every Canadian kid learns about the St. Lawrence River.
My Canada, 7/150: The Great Lakes, sunset at Port Franks
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.
My Canada, 6/150: The little rivers
Canada has big lakes, little lakes, marshes, wetlands: a complicated web of rivers connect them all.
