Blogs from Canada, North America - page 1230

Today we took a tour of Ottawa's Parliament building. The building was created in the gothic style and incorporates a lot of very interesting architecture. (Sorry...still no pictures.) The most interesting part of the day was listening to a presentation by Amelita Armit. Ms. Armit is the Vice President of the Programs of the Parliamentary Centre. She has lived in Canada, in the Phillippines, and in the U.S. and has participated in the Canadian government as an Assistant Deputy Minister in Alberta. Ms. Armit basically gave an overview of the Canadian government, while contrasting it with the U.S. system. She also addressed many current issues and challenges in Canada. Canada is a representative democracy, but their governing system is different than the U.S. It is a constitutional monarchy with Queen Elizabeth II serving as head of ... read more

We made our way from Port Hardy to the ferry terminal to jump on the BC ferrys to head to Prince Rupert. We stayed in Prince Rubert which is just south off the Alaskan boarder for 2 nights. We meet some really nice people who we went drinking with for 2 days in the bar that over looked the harbour and met some really friendly fishermen who bought us shots, another fisherman was going to pick up a boat in Petersburg and asked us to join him in a free trip to Russia as thats where he was sailing to after. Unfortunately we couldnt go as we had to stick to our plans as it would have messed up our flights. We ended up blocked the day that we were leaving and had to go through ... read more

'Tis Farewell to Canada North America » Canada » New Brunswick » Moncton By Intrepid MumsieJuly 2nd 2007 This will be the last entry from Canada. I leave tonight on the bus for Montreal then over the border to Albany, NY to see my other American/Aussie cousin. Mel and I parted company in Toronto; she to move on to Montreal and moi to come over here to Moncton to vist my niece who decided to fall in love with a Canadian!! Before we parted company the two of us headed down to Niagara Falls and spent a day and a half tramping the falls circuit. It really is a beautiful place to visit and well wor... read more

Well, it's our 4th day of rain (at least by late afternoon it finally quit) - felt great to be outdoors and not dripping wet! We're in Whitehorse - it was a beautiful drive with lots of lakes and rivers. Yesterday was a also a great drive - we saw lots of wildlife - stone sheep (similar to our big horn sheep), lots of wild buffalo, red fox, deer, elk (Alvin said all he needs to see is carribou and bear & he'll be happy). Sorry I haven't been answering emails - I haven't been able to get into it. Tonight it at least gave me an error message (Kim, I did some checking with AOL - but didn't get to a spot I could report the error) - It was error code COFE180D; report ID ... read more

Ottawa, CanadaToday was another very busy day. The Fulbright group met a 7:45 a.m. for breakfast, and at 8:30 a.m. we headed off for the Museum of Civilization. Here we were lead on a tour of the museum, where we learned about the history of Canada from pre-contact of Europe to present. The museum had an excellent exhibition of First Nation artifacts and their history. From here we went over to the National Gallery of Canada, where we toured the museum and saw Canada’s permanent art collection of both contemporary and modern art. All of the artists were Canadian. Finally we had high tea at the Chateau Laurier where met with Clare Beckton who spoke on women’s issues in Canada. Hoy era otro dia muy ocupado. El grupo de becarios de Fulbright se juntaron para almorzar ... read more