2026 FIFA World Cup in North America: The venues

11 June 2026 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Sport Reading Time:  23 minutes

© Google Gemini

© Google Gemini

The 2026 FIFA World Cup will be the 23rd FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international men’s soccer championship contested by the national teams of the member associations of FIFA. The tournament will take place from June 11 to July 19, 2026. It will be jointly hosted by sixteen cities—eleven in the United States, three in Mexico, and two in Canada. The tournament will be the first FIFA World Cup to be hosted by three nations, and the first to include 48 teams, an expansion from 32 previously.   read more…

Kensington Market in Toronto

3 June 2026 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Bon appétit, Shopping Reading Time:  11 minutes

© Suwannee.payne/cc-by-sa-3.0

© Suwannee.payne/cc-by-sa-3.0

Kensington Market is a distinctive multicultural neighbourhood in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Market is an older neighbourhood and one of the city’s best-known. In November 2006, it was designated a National Historic Site of Canada. Robert Fulford wrote in 1999 that “Kensington today is as much a legend as a district. The (partly) outdoor market has probably been photographed more often than any other site in Toronto.”   read more…

Gastown in Vancouver

29 April 2026 | Author/Destination: | Category: General Reading Time:  5 minutes

'Gassy Jack' statue © Anthony Maw/cc-by-sa-3.0

‘Gassy Jack’ statue © Anthony Maw/cc-by-sa-3.0

Gastown is the original settlement that became the core of the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and a national historic site and a neighbourhood in the northwest section of the Downtown Eastside, adjacent to Downtown Vancouver.   read more…

The Beaches in Toronto

8 April 2026 | Author/Destination: | Category: General Reading Time:  7 minutes

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© Canmenwalker/cc-by-4.0

The Beaches (also known as “the Beach”) is a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is so named because of its four beaches situated on Lake Ontario. It is located east of downtown within the “Old” City of Toronto. The approximate boundaries of the neighbourhood are from Victoria Park Avenue on the east to Kingston Road on the north, along Dundas Street to Coxwell Avenue on the west, south to Lake Ontario. The Beaches is part of the east-central district of Toronto.   read more…

Butchart Gardens on Vancouver Island

14 March 2026 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Palaces, Castles, Manors, Parks Reading Time:  6 minutes

Entrance © Fletcher6/cc-by-sa-3.0

Entrance © Fletcher6/cc-by-sa-3.0

The Butchart Gardens is a floral display garden in Brentwood Bay, British Columbia, Canada, located near Victoria on Vancouver Island. The gardens receive over a million visitors each year. The gardens have been designated a National Historic Site of Canada.   read more…

Portrait: Architect and designer Frank Gehry

24 December 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: Portrait Reading Time:  7 minutes

Frank Gehry © City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 200, Series 2311, File 2969, Item 89

Frank Gehry
© City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 200, Series 2311, File 2969, Item 89

Frank Owen Gehry was a Canadian and American architect and designer known for his postmodern designs and use of unconventional forms and materials. A number of his buildings, including his private residence in Santa Monica, California, have become attractions. His most famous works include the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, and the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris. These buildings are characterized by their sculptural, often undulating exteriors and innovative use of materials such as titanium and stainless steel.   read more…

Scalopps

12 October 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Bon appétit Reading Time:  6 minutes

Scallops from London, UK © flickr.com - Ewan Munro/cc-by-sa-2.0

Scallops from London, UK © flickr.com – Ewan Munro/cc-by-sa-2.0

Scallops are characterized by offering two flavors and textures in one shell: the meat, called “scallop”, which is firm and white, and the roe, called “coral”, which is soft and often brightly coloured reddish-orange. Sometimes, markets sell scallops already prepared in the shell, with only the meat remaining. Outside the U.S., the scallop is often sold whole. They are available both with and without coral in the UK and Australia.   read more…

Clayoquot Sound Biosphere Reserve in British Columbia

24 June 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Environment, UNESCO World Heritage Reading Time:  6 minutes

Rainforest at work © Billyshiverstick/cc-by-sa-4.0

Rainforest at work © Billyshiverstick/cc-by-sa-4.0

Clayoquot Sound Biosphere Reserve is a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve situated in Clayoquot Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. A diverse range of ecosystems exist within the biosphere reserve boundaries, including temperate coastal rainforest, ocean and rocky coastal shores. The nearest city is Tofino.   read more…

Underground Railroad in the United States and Canada

24 May 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General Reading Time:  8 minutes

Underground Railroad map © lccn.loc.gov

Underground Railroad map © lccn.loc.gov

The Underground Railroad was an organized network of secret routes and safe houses used by freedom seekers to escape to the abolitionist Northern United States and Eastern Canada. Enslaved Africans and African Americans escaped from slavery as early as the 16th century, and many of their escapes were unaided; however, a network of safe houses generally known as the Underground Railroad began to organize in the 1780s among Abolitionist Societies in the North. It ran north and grew steadily until the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863 by President Abraham Lincoln. The escapees sought primarily to escape into Slave states and free states”>free states, and potentially from there to Canada.   read more…

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