Tag: First Nation

• Road Trip continues….Bay of Fundy…..Magic on the Rocks

  

  The final stretch of the Maritime road trip and somehow the most magical segment. The poet Kahlil Gibran’s words resonate as I share the previously published blog ‘Bay of Fundy’. Gibran muses… ‘The appearance of things change according to the emotions, and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty […]

  Travtrails

  August 31, 2021

  2021, Accidental Expat, responsible tourism, Sense of Place

  Bay Of Fundy, Canada Tourism, Destination Maritimes, First Nation, Fundy National Park, Hopewell or Flower Pot Rocks, New Brunswick, Road Trips

• Head-Smashed-in Buffalo Jump…..It’s a wonderful world

  Re-posting our mini adventure for Lens-Artists Challenge #153: It’s a wonderful world Head-Smashed-in Buffalo Jump…. for a minute you wonder who is smashing whose head and that too over jumping Buffalo or Bison and then you realize that this is one of the ‘world’s oldest, largest, and best preserved buffalo jumps’. It is not literally a […]

  Travtrails

  June 23, 2021

  2021, Accidental Expat, Sense of Place

  Adventure, Alberta, Bison, Blackfoot, Buffalo, buffalo jumps, Call to Place, First Nation, Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, Interactive Centre, Lens-Artists Challenge #153: It’s a wonderful world, Prairies

• #3 Four Cities and an Island…. Ottawa, Kingston

  Our timing was slightly skewed, a few days ahead of Canada elections, a lost opportunity to watch Justin Trudeau stride into Rideau Hall as Canada’s 23rd Prime Minister. The imposing Parliament buildings, the East, West and Central wings straddling the Autumnal landscape compensate for lost opportunities. We are in Ottawa, a city demarcated into two […]

  Travtrails

  November 19, 2015

  Accidental Expat

  Bellevue House, Canadian Museum of History, Centennial Flame, First Nation, Grand Hall, Justin Trudeau, Kingston, Limestone City, Maman by Louise Bourgeois, Mary Anne Barkhouse, NAMAXSALA, Ottawa, Parliament Hill, Queen Victoria, Queen’s University, Rideau Hall, Sir John A. Macdonald, totem poles, Wall of Windows