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You know you’re nearing Meziadin Junction when the more prosaic stretch of spectacular Northern British Columbia highway you’ve been following is brought to life by a rising crown of luminous peaks – and that distant glint grows to become an…
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The Ontario Northland Railway station in Cochrane – a sleepy Franco-Ontarian boreal hamlet and the birthplace of Tim Horton – looked every bit the embarkation point to places off the grid. A mob of passengers waiting to board the 9:00am…
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WHAT BEGINS as a nearly imperceptible feeling of movement turns, surreptitiously, into a heavy seesawing that wobbles my beer in its glass. The dining room servers, going from smiles to poker faces, move to-and-fro like tightrope walkers in peril. Outside,…
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“LEAN FORWARD AND GRAB a handful of mane,” our guide, Esther McGhie, shouts. “The horses won’t feel it.” Following a well-worn trail, our steeds begin the steep climb towards a high, treeless plateau. Doing as Esther says, I stand on…
Continue reading“There’s way too much cloud up ahead,” said our Cessna pilot, betraying an iota of fluster that marred his showy demeanour of unflinching calm. We were on a two-hour glacier flight over Canada’s highest peaks, yet the promised view of…
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