Canadian Provinces and Territories Described in 10 Words

Prince Edward Island
Red Sand. Potatoes.  Beaches.  Anne of Green Gables (enough already!)

Newfoundland
Rock.  North Atlantic.  Fog.  Cod.  Unemployed.  Friendly.  Screech. Tunderin’ Jesus!

New Brunswick
Next to Maine.  Moncton.  Bay of Fundy.  Drive-thru Province.

Nova Scotia.
Halifax. Lobster. Bluenose. Rain. Cape Breton. Fiddle Music. Rita McNeil.

Quebec
Poutine.  Depaneur. Habs.  Labatts 50.  Smoked Meat.  Montreal.  Politics.  Tabernac.

Ontario
Toronto.  Non-Toronto.  Blackflies. Walleye. Lakes.  Cottages.  Big.  Boring.

Manitoba
Prairies.  Winter-peg.  Flat.   Churchill. Polar Bears.  Above North Dakota.

Saskatechewan
Flat.  Yawn.  Wheat.  Flat.  Close to Alberta.  Peaked in 1912.

Alberta
Prairies.  Tar Sands.  Rockies.  Beef.  No sales tax.  Yee-Haw.

British Columbia
Lotus Land. Hippies.  Asians.  Mountains.  Logging.  Spruce-beetles.  Ontario refugees.

Yukon Territory
Bugs.  Klondike Tourists.  Glaciers.  Bugs.  North of 60.  Arctic cold.

NorthWest Territories
Like Yukon, but bigger, more remote, no glaciers, no tourists.

Nunavut
Same as Northwest Territories.  Used to be part of them.

Travels with the Bear: Where the buffalo roam (or fly).

Any guesses as to how they traditionally hunted buffalo hundreds of years ago?

I think the sign pretty much explains it.

For more information, check out www.head-smashed-in.com.

It’s a UNESCO World Heritage Site, no less.

(Regardless of what happened to the poor buffalo, it’s still a pretty cool name for a web page, you gotta admit).

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Never let it be said, that I don’t take the Bear to “interesting” places.

(Can you spot him?)

Travels with the Bear: On the Island

The Bear has travelled to many exotic places.

Cow Head (Newfoundland) wasn’t one of them.

Especially in November.

(Well, at least we weren’t in Dildo !)

Travels with the Bear: Denali National Park

If you’re ever in the town of Talkeetna, Alaska, for a few hundred bucks a pilot will take you on a scenic flight around Denali.  

It’s well-worth the cost.  You’ll soar over endless icefields,  and circle around towering spires of ice and rock that seem to pierce the very fabric of the sky…

 

 

They’ll even land you on a glacier, where you can get out and walk around in your shorts and T-Shirt.

Sure, it’s touristy, but so what?  Unless you’re a serious moutaineer, when else would you ever get to do something like this?  

This had to be one of the most beautiful days of my life. 

 The Bear tends to agree.

Random Bear Photo

Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah.

The racing season must have been over, all the cars were gone…