Royal Canadian

I will be traveling to France, Belgium and The Netherlands to visit war memorial sites...cemeteries, battlefields and monuments as part of a "Pilgrimage of Remembrance." I feel honoured to have been selected to represent Ontario on this journey. I hope to ...

... at and photographing the many quaint buildings erected in the late 1700's and early 1800’s.  We stopped at the Royal Bank of Canada to get Canadian money using my Visa.  No problem! We then toured Fort Anne, a fort built in 1629 by the ...

... philosophy until about the 1970s.  The original idea was to raise revenue to offset the cost to the government of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The original hot springs site is now an historic site; you are allowed to visit but not allowed to swim ...

... Parkway. As we left Lake Louise the snow turned to rain.  We eventually got to Banff around 1pm, and checked into the Delta Banff Royal Canadian Lodge.  It's the best room we have had so far on the trip, and we are only here one night!  As ...

... teriyaki sub at Shakes is amazing! I still haven't tried all the restaurants or bars here yet. Check out bingo night at the Royal Canadian Legion (like an RSL) for cheap beer and some intense action. 4. Go sightseeing. Banff is all about tourists so if ...

   Well, we stayed 2 nights in Calgary.  We visited Fort Calgary and learned about the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and then went to the Heritage Center.    We left the next day and drove to Banff.  The weather has improved ...

... the memories we shared together.  The dinner was great and at the end of the meal  we had a retired member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police join us.  He had some interesting stories to tell us about life in the RCMP and then at the end ...

... nbsp;stood around me.) Mania has hit town, the Canadians around me go wild. They love it! Laughing to myself I wander towards the Royal Canadian Mint and the National Gallery of Canada. It's my afternoon plan as both are open late on a Thursday. I start ...

... beautiful, warm and sunny, and we sat on the dock next to the Bluenose II (replica of the ship that appears on the back of the Canadian dime) to eat. Me and JR came up with an evil plan to steal the ship and head off around the world, until he noticed ...

... de deux nuits au chaud ne fait peur à personne, disons même que nous en sommes ravis! Summary: Irricana AB, morning still cold (O Canadian weather, our home in April month...) coffee in the gas station, no Tim Horton's around... let's go further East, ...

... very little cash for the rest of the trip.   We decided to stop in Digby on the way back to do some sightseeing and get some Canadian money at an ATM. Our GPS led us to an ATM at a Wal-Mart, but it wouldn’t take my debit card.   ...

... The last entry is always the hardest..I'm back home, faced with the piled up action items that accumulated during the time away, a virtual Canadian Rockies of laundry, and trying to put 3 meals on the table each day.  It's so much easier to come back ...

... in. We also check in it's the new riverbank in and the rooms were gorgeous room going for about $10 dollars Canadian a night. Sometimes things work out. Julie shares Mo's passion for cats and they began spoiling the 2 cats that hung around ...

... , to Boston, to Banff and were heading back to Texas. A total trip of 10000 Kms they reckoned. I told them that I had met a Canadian at the hostel who had been around the outside of the US starting in Calgary and would have totalled 14000 Kms - and he's ...

... was no problem with the walk but there might be an area we can't get to because of certain dignitaries in at the lodge, i.e. a certain royal couple visiting the area! Also, and this one's for Russell, we were told not to go near one end of the golf course ...

... riding to herbet lake for a picnis, and then around the bow valley trail and back up to lake louise. Celebrated canada with my canadian friends, had a ball also went for a girls night out in banff and stayed at the banff springs hotel and had an awesome ...

... 's beautful alpine lake fed by several glaciers which give it a unique colour (it was orginally called Emerald Lake, but some royal princess, got it named after her instead). The colour comes from the crushed dust that the glacier scrapes from the rocks ...

... I went in to the Pavillion to take a look. Ali and Ben waited outside for me as she had already seen it with past Canadian visitors. It was pretty cool, very gaudy but there were some really interesting features as well. We left Brighton and headed to ...

... , I quickly got dressed and walked briskly in the cool morning air towards my fate. Upon meeting Pavel and Marc at the Mount Royal Hotel, we drove up the never ending highway towards Lake Louise. Thankfully we found a car park as we arrived and fearlessly ...

So this week has been interesting! I finished work on Wednesday morning and met Nico at the Mount Royal hotel to join the Grand Nature Club on their hike to Taylor Lake. Unfortunately, they didn't have enough transportation for us so we decided to go up ...