More of Our Canada – July 2019

OUR COUNTRY, OUR STORIES JULY 2019 ourcanada.ca READER’S DIGEST A Passion for Fashion Cruising the Rideau Saddle Up! B.C.’s Exci ...

Lydia Troc of Prince George, B.C., snapped this scenic shot of Mount Assiniboine from a nearby lodge. To read all about Lydia’s ...

26 42 IN THIS ISSUE 8 COWBOY COUNTRY Photographer Mike Lane of Saanichton, B.C., takes us along as he captures the fast and furi ...

LYDIA TROC Originally from Ontario, Lydia moved to Prince George, B.C., in She says it was a great move as she prefers quiet co ...

Spreading the Word As a subscriber to Our Canada,I can hardly wait to receive each issue in the mail. I read them all from cover ...

EDITOR’S LETTER A REFLECTION OF CANADA During my years withOur Canada to date, I’ve come to realize that many Canadians tend to ...

Merritt Richardson THE BLACK WATCH OF CANADA, HIGHLAND REGIMENT Merritt was born in South Bar, near Sydney, N.S., on March 22, 1 ...

A cowboy at the Williams Lake stampede tries one of the toughest events—bull riding! ...

I had been taking photos for almost an hour before I decided to look at them on the monitor on the back of my camera. Oh no! The ...

they never bagged anything, but they came back full of stories about “cowboy country.” So my favourite book when I was 12 years ...

The mighty Fraser River (top) meanders below Mike as he takes in the view from Cougar Point lookout. Later, he tried to capture ...

fixed in no time. “All the boys in the coun- tryside around here come into the town on the weekend and they all get flat tires a ...

Although most were tossed to the ground, a few of the hardiest bronco riders managed to stay in the saddle for the required time ...

BULLETIN BOARD THE ART OF THE ‘DAD JOKE’ A text came through from my sister one afternoon. It read, “Why does a bird have feathe ...

“This is not what I meant when I asked for mow allowance...” Thanks toB.J. Kirouac of Brandon, Man., for sharing this adorable p ...

CAUSE FOR APPLAUSE ‘Will Swim for Food’ Having raised $4,000 and 165 kilos of food last year for his local food bank, this teena ...

end I blew that goal out of the water with a total of $4, dollars and 301 food items— almost 165 kilograms of food. While I was ...

OUR TRAVELS A group of nine women, who met on Facebook, found adventure and friendship on a four-day hiking trip to Mount Assini ...

I amamemberofaFacebookgroup called PG Backcountry Babes, which is a group of like-minded women who en- joy the outdoors. It is a ...

There are three different trails you can take to get to Mt. Assiniboine; we decided to take the route that begins in Sunshine Vi ...