Gellaty Nut Farm Park on Okanogan Lake in the Winter
Okanogan Lake is very moody in the winter. The historic Gellatly Nut Farm is a BC Regional Park set on the lake near West Kelowna, BC. A man carved from […]
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Lighting Up the Winter at Yaletown Illuminations in Vancouver
Originally posted on Albatz Travel Adventures:
Illuminate Yaletown was one of my favourite events to light up the dark days of winter. There were all manner of lights, fire dancers…
Saskatchewan in the Winter Time, 1949
From a journal of memories my dad gave me; this story of when he first arrived in Canada after being recruited as a worker in Denmark. I was sent to […]
A Train Ride through Ontario in mid-December 1949
My dad’s memories of the train ride he took through Ontario in mid-December 1949. After splitting up with the refugees in Montreal and seeing Harold vanish into the crowd at […]
Danish Winter Emergency, 1940
Dad’s memories of Denmark in the winter of 1940. I guess I suffered from wanderlust so I looked for another job and found that on a potato farm 15 miles […]
Ice Winter on Sio Farm in Denmark, 1936-37
Dad’s memories of his first winter on his uncle Peter’s farm on Siø, an island off of Langeland in Denmark. The first winter I was on the island the strait […]
Winter Logging in Sweden, 1947
From my Dad’s memories of spending a winter felling trees north of Stockholm (1947). I longed to get back into the clean air and went to the labour office that […]
Travel Theme: Snowy BC
It mostly rains in Vancouver in the winter so if I want snow I have to go up into the mountains or into the interior of the province. Here are […]
Weekly Photo Challenge: Seasons Around the City
Seasons in the city of Vancouver… Spring green leaves at Pacific Spirit Park up by UBC. Summer is beach time.Autumn on Commercial Drive. We don’t usually get snow but when we […]
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: The Colour of Water in the Winter
Even though it was spring when we were flying over the Arctic Circle on our way home from Belgium the frozen wastes below us screamed ‘Winter’. For more on Cee’s Fun […]
