Our Canada – August-September 2019
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M y Grandma Norah had a pro- found and everlasting e ect on the lives of all who knew her, most of all mine. Grand- ma often kne ...
Grandma Norah with Tara’s two sons, Ryan (left) in 1993 and Chris (below) in 1995. The anticipation of getting to spend time wit ...
Son of a Preacher Man For a teenage boy in the ’60s, visiting rural churches with Dad was an education in itself by Gordon Renfr ...
toolgter ipd the river was flowing quite quickly. At the beginning of the service, Dad walked timidly out to the designated area ...
BOUNTIFUL HARVEST “I am from the Prairies, and here, many people make their living from farming,” writes Allie Smorodin of Saska ...
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(clockwise from far left) BIG BALES! “While travelling to Winnipeg last summer, we saw some wheat fields in Manitoba where the b ...
A RURAL WORK OF ART “How much more Canadian can you get than an inukshuk made from hay bales standing beneath the North Star?” a ...
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F LY AWAY HOME What if you wished you were a bird—and it came true? by Delia McCrae, Victoria WRITER’S BLOCK A lmost every day w ...
smile, dressed in a bright red T-shirt, jeans and white runners, he began to run to- wards their home. Rosanna had never seen hi ...
MY HOMETOWN W ith backdrops of Co- bourg’s heritage har- bour and the historic Grafton Inn, the Ontario Provin- cial Town Criers ...
to times when most people in towns and villages were illiter- ate. The criers, many of whom were women, were the latter-day news ...
I travelled to Percé, Que., in June 2018 to attend a three- day workshop on photograph- ing northern gannets, as I have been fas ...
M y family likes to travel, and they like to play baseball. I always bring my camera along, as there is nev- er a shortage of in ...
SAFARI BOUND A family wedding in Cape To w n set adventurous plans in motion by Sandy Chinski,Red Deer, Alta. M ytriptoAfricasta ...
Encounters with wildlife and other wonders of nature, such as Victoria Falls (above), were a real highlight of Sandy’s trip. fro ...
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