Glenbow Archives Blackflies hung around her in the damp air, as branches tore at her clothes. The mosquitoes engorging themselves on her blood were mere annoyances as she navigated through the northern bush, She was only focused on one thing. Her...
Photo from John Moses She held the soldier’s hand. Only months earlier, he had been full of life as he longed to serve his country. Now he was on his deathbed in a front-line hospital in France. He had a gruesome wound but over the next few weeks...
Paramount “Space… the final frontier.” Before there was warp drive, before there was the Enterprise, before millions of fans around the world heard the words “Beam me up, Scotty” … A Canadian lieutenant was on a watercraft in the English Channel...
Everett Collection The man in the witness stand fidgeted in his seat. In front of him was a six feet tall imposing figure that looked better fit for the gridiron than the courtroom. For the witness, it felt like the criminal defense lawyer’s...
Wiki Commons – Public Domain A woman’s scream is heard as a giant ape’s hand bursts through a window. As he attempts to grab her a man with her valiantly grabs a chair and swings at the hand. He fails to make an impact and with a smack the ape...
The Canadian Press From jet black, to a view of the International Space Station, there’s no stage, no dramatic lighting. The backdrop is the blue coloured jewel of the planet we call home. Inside. a man floats weightlessly in the cramped module lit...
City of Toronto Archives During the summer of 2025, I drove 6,000 kilometres around western Canada. I visited the World’s Largest Beaver in Beaverlodge, stood on the Canada-US border at the International Peace Garden, walked along The Great Wall of...
British Columbia Archives March 1935. Despite the cool night of early spring, the windows were open in the sitting room of a villa in a quiet seaside town in southern England. The fresh air and slight breeze gently billowed the curtains as a man in...
Glenbow Archives The stars glistened above him, only slightly overshadowed by the glare of the moon. In the distance, he could hear the coyotes howl but the sound was drowned out by thousands of cattle wandering north. His plan was to return to the...
I still remember the way the cold bit at my cheeks as I stepped off the bus. I was in high school, and winter in Alberta meant darkness clinging to the morning and the crunch of snow under every boot. Our high school had organized a ski day, and...