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…
Tag Archives: winter
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 […]
