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 sends...
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...
Alpine Canada Alpin An old farmer living in southern Saskatchewan thought he had seen it all. From monster dust storms that blotted out the sun and turned day to night during the Great Depression. To Aurora Borealis that lit up the winter’s night...
Library and Archives Canada As the slender and lean young man stood on the starting line, no one in the crowd knew who he was. On either side of him were athletes who had spent their lives becoming elite runners. They were the best of the best. The...
WinnipegFalcons.com Frank Frederickson stood on the deck of the ship as it sailed on the Mediterranean Sea. Months ago, he enlisted to fight in the First World War. Now, his home in Winnipeg seemed a world away. Before long, he would be in Egypt to...
Laura Bombier One late night back in the early-2000s, I was flipping through the channels trying to find something to watch. When I landed on The Discovery Channel, I saw something unexpected. A man was standing in the middle of the Canadian Arctic...