Author: JStoness

A Tweedsmuir Lodge River Drift

Tweedsmuir Lodge In the Bella Coola Valley of western British Columbia, at a place called Stuie, rests the relaxing Tweedsmuir Park Lodge. For many years aboriginals came here to fish and hunt and declared it a nice place to rest. It certainly is that. While relaxing may have been on […]

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Silver Strike at Cobalt

A chance reflection from the bottom of Long Lake in the summer of 1903 sparked the greatest silver discovery in Ontario. It wasn’t long before Cobalt was a fiery word spoken around the world wherever potential investors could be found. The silver was first discovered by a couple of foresters […]

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The Scablands are Formed

Not so very long ago we were in the midst of an iceage. About 15,000 years back, Idaho and Washington saw a cycle of huge, instantaneous floods that wiped vast areas clean of vegetation, and even moved the rocks in the canyon walls. Driving into the Coulee If you start […]

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All Aboard the Orford Express

The City of Sherbrooke is located in the beautiful hill country in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. The area is well known for its great scenic driving especially during summer and autumn. This region has attracted tourists for these reasons and for one other very special reason Fountain Jets Sherbrooke […]

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Our Evolving Climate

There is the opinion among many people that the world’s climate is supposed to remain as it has been for the last 100 years. If that were true how do we explain the past climate of the world? Most people accept that there have been several glacial epic ages, the […]

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