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Situated in the dry belt that is the southern Okanagan region of British Columbia, the town of Osoyoos is home to Canada’s only desert.

Article content No road trip is complete without roadside attractions. Truth is, though, most of us hurtle past these off-ramp enticements on the way to somewhere else, at best glancing at a billboard (Canada’s first what?) or squinting at a signpost (Home to who?). For those of us who wished they’d stopped — even if just for a photo — following are some random Canadian destinations with weird, offbeat or just plain unusual claims to fame. We apologize, but this video has failed to load...

Article content After more than a year of pulling up the drawbridge, what better time to lower our metaphorical defences, lift our heads above the parapets, open the stable door … and storm a few made-in-Canada castles? We’ll never match Europe for grandiose piles piled high on mountaintops or commanding an empire’s white cliffs, but we can more than hold our own — albeit on a smaller scale — in the realm of ramparts, follies and crenellated towers. We apologize, but this video has fa...

Article content April may well be the cruellest month, but as any Canadian music lover knows, it’s the storms of November that show no mercy. Thanks to folksinger Gordon Lightfoot, the cruel abyss that is Lake Superior and its “never-give-up-its-dead” late-autumn tempests are legend. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Canada’s shipwrecks are tantalizing time capsules Back to video The Ontario-born musician immortalized the lake...

Author of the article: Postmedia News Publishing date: Apr 01, 2021  •  3 days ago  •  4 minute read  •  Anticosti Island is home to some 125,000 deer — and fewer than 250 people. A deer peers from the forest on August 13, 2013 on Anticosti Island, Canada. Between 800 and 1,000 tourists are expected to visit Anticosti in the summer of 2013, but every Fall as many as 4,000 hunters come to the island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The size of the French island of Corsica in the M...

We are not to be found in the virtual racks of Best Beach Holiday Destinations. This, like most sweeping generalizations, does not tell the whole story, however. Canada has a bumper crop of beaches, if not the climate to enjoy them year-round, and the coronavirus that has clobbered those Caribbean sun plans is poised to give our oft-neglected shorelines their moment in the sun. With some 250,000 km of coastline, it’s a geographic given that this country will have beaches worth boasting about....

Article content One-industry towns face a formidable and familiar hurdle when that industry, for reasons of economics or obsolescence, goes kaput. For one soon-to-be fading settlement in the Kootenays region of southeast British Columbia, the answer was schnitzel, schnapps and sauerkraut. In the 1970s, confronting the inevitable conclusion that its mineral resources would soon be spent, the alpine community of Kimberley embarked on an ambitious scheme of downtown renewal. With mock-chalet facad...

Try refreshing your browser, or Todays letters: On 15-minute neighbourhoods, queue-jumpers and Black athletes Back to video Over the past few years, I have been doing very informal surveys of businesses similar to those destroyed by the Beechwood fire in 2011. I told them that we really needed them on Beechwood and asked if they had ever considered locating there. Without fail, I was told that they had looked into Beechwood but that the rents were too high for them to survive. Businesses that...