We have three national historic sites in Churchill. Cape Merry is the site of the gun battery on this side, the east peninsula, built to protect the fort on the west peninsula, just across the mouth of the river from here.Our third national historic site is called Sloop Cove, also across river, and somewhat inaccessible. Many men who came here back in the 1700s, dealing with the construction of the Prince of Wales Fort left their names behind in the rocks there.
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"My personal favourite location of Forillon National Park is the Cap-des-Rosiers. It’s in the northern area of the park. It’s a great to visit any time in summer. People can see the cliff. On the early morning you’ll see the sun rise above the sea. The light that hits the cliff makes it golden or orange. It’s very beautiful — unique," says park ranger Eric le Blanc.
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“We used what we know about bison’s preference for food and forage to develop predictive a model for habitat. The Panther Valley is kind of the bull’s eye in terms of the best quality habitat we have in the park…once we release them and they step out of the gate they don’t have to go looking for their first good meals. For people there may be some discomfort getting reacquainted with these animals that have been missing for 150 years…you need a bit of a warm-up period. We felt we needed to start slowly, with just a few people at a time interacting with the bison, so it was better to start in the back country rather than next to a highway or one of the towns,” explains Carsten, who grew up in Alberta.
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This With a Local supplies insider tips on things to do and see while visiting Edmonton in Alberta, Canada. Disclosure: Some of the links and banners below are affiliate links, meaning, at no additional cost to you, I will earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase. Kendall Barber has lived in
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Stuart Forster interviews Theo de Haan, a resident of the city, for a local’s perspective and insider tips on Things to do in Groningen, the Netherlands. Disclosure: Some of the links and banners below are affiliate links, meaning, at no additional cost to you, I will earn a commission if you click through and make
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Members of bobsleigh teams in the Winter Olympics tend to be muscular sprinters who push their sled then jump aboard once it’s moving. We, by contrast, get comfy before being given a helping hand by the man who just explained we must keep our hands inside of the soft bob as we travel along the track.
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Scheveningen is one of the locations across the Netherlands that mark the onset of the new herring season, each June, with celebratory feasts. Known as flag day — Vlaggetjesdag in Dutch — it sees people donning traditional attire while the country’s red, white and blue horizontal tricolour flaps from flagpoles and pokes in miniature from wooden cocktail sticks stuck into succulent slices of herring.
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Listen into conversations as you take a coffee break and you may well overhear Dubliners joking about their politicians failings, life’s everyday challenges and the differences between their city’s north- and south sides. Just one of the must do activities when on a Dublin weekend break.
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The National Music Centre is home to the world’s only complete Rob Wave electromechanical organ. Dating from 1937, the instrument was at the forefront of electronic sound production — the first to go into commercial production. The depressed economic climate of the 1930s is regarded a factor in why just 16 units were made.
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If you enjoy the dinosaur exhibits at London’s Natural History Museum, you’re likely to love the Royal Tyrell Museum in Drumheller. The palaeontology museum stands in Alberta’s Badlands, a dramatic eroded landscape with exposed rock stratification, coulees and mushroom-like formations known as hoodoos.
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