We looked up from the base of Niagara, looked down from the top of the Peace Tower, and out seaward from the lighthouse at Peggy’s Cove. We patted the statue of Winnie the Pooh at the zoo in Winnipeg, and added one more Inukshuk to the thousands lining highway 17 running over the top of Lake Superior. We whooped it up at the Calgary Stampede, cheered on the Chuck Wagons at Ponoka, explored the tunnels in Moose Jaw, and the RCMP academy at Regina. During the summer holidays, when we could travel further afield, we visited Revelstoke, celebrated Canada day with free cake and cordial at Chemainus on Vancouver Island. We went to a play at the amazing Rosebud theatre, and hunting for dinosaurs in Drumheller. Back in southern Alberta we tried dog-sledding, snow-shoeing, and Nordic skiing. Ski-dooing, ice-fishing, sledding, curling, and a barbeque featuring moose smokies and s’mores. ![]() They took us for adventures that we’d never even dreamed of. ![]() We were billeted there with a Canadian family –A park ranger, his wife and son. We journeyed to Lac la Biche for a round dance, where our boys were invited to join the drumming circle –we only found out afterwards how rare an honour that was. Our home country is so old and worn down that our mountains wouldn’t even rate as foothills here. ![]() We immediately fell in love with the small towns of Jasper and Canmore in the Rockies. We knew that we would only have a year to experience as much of Canadian life as we could, so we tried to make sure that we used every weekend to travel and explore. My wife had accepted an exchange teaching position in Edmonton AB. My wife and I, and out two boys arrived in Canada in January of 2006.
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