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Vancouver: Christ Church Cathedral

November 3, 2022 By Guy St. Clair

Perhaps a New Way of Thinking about Organized Religion While I’m not much of a religious fellow, one of my favorite things is just to go and sit in churches. I don’t know why, and there’s no sense in trying to “dig too deeply” (perhaps it’s all that church music I sang in choirs over …

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Filed Under: Art & Architecture, History, Journal, Personal History, Travel Tagged With: Anglican Church of Canada, Art (Stained-Glass), Christ Church Cathedral (Vancouver), Diversity (Spiritual), Inclusion (Religious), Religion (Established), Religious mission, Social mission, War Memorials

Vancouver: A Very Welcoming City

October 29, 2022 By Guy St. Clair

A New Favorite Hotel and Perhaps a New Favorite City When we made our plans for visiting this lovely city (which we had visited in 2014 for a professional conference), we chose the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, falling in with the Fairmont chain just as we had done for Toronto and Victoria. And as I say, …

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Filed Under: Art & Architecture, Journal, Personal History, Travel Tagged With: Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver, Vancouver (Architecture)

Crossing Canada by Train (4)

October 19, 2022 By Guy St. Clair

Day Four (Saturday): On to Vancouver, With a Festive (And Very Personal) Final Evening Oddly enough, not much to write about as The Canadian rolled through British Columbia and made its way to Vancouver. At this point, the journey was not particularly visual, so no photographs. But we all had a good time talking and …

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Filed Under: Journal, Music, Personal History, Travel Tagged With: Caro mio ben (song), Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, Giordani (Giuseppe), The Roadside Fire (song), Vaughan Williams (Ralph)

Crossing Canada by Train (3)

October 19, 2022 By Guy St. Clair

Day Three (Friday): The Canadian Rockies For anyone thinking about the cross-country journey on The Canadian, a primary consideration probably has to do with the Canadian Rockies. And that goes together with – hopefully – an opportunity to bring home some images (mental or, if travelling with a talented photographer, nice photographs that will keep …

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Filed Under: Journal, Nature, Personal History, Travel Tagged With: Canada, Canadian Rockies, Fog, Fraser (Simon), Fraser River, Jasper (Alberta), Mount Robson, Pyramid Creek Falls, Robinson (Colin), Robson (John), Simpson (George)

Crossing Canada by Train (2)

October 18, 2022 By Guy St. Clair

Day Two (Thursday): West and North On the trip out of Toronto and into the city suburbs (It’s a big city, with a population of nearly three million), there wasn’t a lot to see. Ontario has varied topography and we realized that looking out the window or even ascending to the observation car didn’t initially …

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Filed Under: Journal, Personal History, Travel Tagged With: Canada, Canada (farmland), Railway travel, Toronto, Travellers, VIA Rail (The Canadian)

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