Winter 2006

In January 2006 I drove to Ottawa to visit family and friends and then flew onto Vancouver and Victoria for more of the same.

The Empress Hotel's quasi-medieval architecture sit majestically on the banks of Victoria 's inner harbour. This Vancouver Island landmark captures the grandeur and elegance of a bygone era

One of my most pleasurable winter activities is skiing with my adult children. Here Tania and I share this 20 year old tradition at Mount Washington on Vancouver Island. This ski resort's claim to fame is it's 9 meters of annual snow fall.

Ottawa's Rideau Canal ‚– This rink (7.8KM) is being recognized by the Guinness Book of Records as the world's largest natural frozen ice rink. Each year more than one million visitors flock to skate the canal and I was fortunate enough to be one of them.

This frozen ice surface the Rideau Canal Waterway which links the lakes and rivers between Ottawa and Kingston is the oldest continuously operated canal in North America. In summer the locks on this waterway are operated today much as they were when first opened in 1832.