Canada150 – Page 7 – Teahen Tales

My Canada, 102/150: Into the woods

Delicacy and respect is required if one’s going to tramp about the woods to gather your vegetables.

Ontario’s McIntosh apple, now produced in greater quantities than any other apple in Canada, was discovered by accident.

Spring brings longer days and the cheerful barrage of colour everywhere as flowers and trees bloom anew.

When I’m hosting visitors to Toronto, one of our top agenda items is a trip to the Maple Leaf Gardens Loblaws.

By 1900, Brantford, Ontario was the third-largest manufacturing centre in Canada, after only Toronto and Montreal.

How on Earth does a flower native to South Africa become so embedded in a Canadian family’s life?

In 1939, Canada’s Parliament decided that Canadian filmmakers needed support to tell the stories they wanted to tell.

Canada’s national public broadcaster since 1936, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation was a big part of my life growing up in this country.