A highlight of my Remembrance weekend in London this November was when I stumbled across what I soon learned to be Speakers’ Corner, located at the northeast corner of Hyde Park near Marble Arch. Speakers’ Corner gained unofficial status as a “right to speak” area in 1872 and has since been considered a special free […]
Year: 2017
An autumn uOttawa Gee-Gees track practice
One early autumn day in late October I accompanied my good friend and uOttawa Gee-Gees track coach, Normand Séguin, at Strathcona Park (next to the Rideau River in Sandy Hill, Ottawa) for his routine Saturday coaching session. Normand himself was a track athlete in his early days and now enjoys volunteering on a regular basis […]
A man and his dog at the Dominion Arboretum
My friend Dave recently adopted Lilly, a Jack Russell mix (possibly a mix with chihuahua or dachshund, 7 years old), and approached me for a photo shoot out at the Dominion Arboretum near Dow’s Lake, Ottawa. Of course I said yes, what a perfect opportunity to promote the SPCA and at the same time spend […]
My first visit to Omega Park
My closest recollection to an animal park was the Vancouver Game Farm (now the Greater Vancouver Game Farm) that I visited in 1971 at 8 years of age when I was living in Vancouver, BC. Would there be elephants at Omega Park? That’s me up front, with my cousin Billy not holding on. Omega Park […]