Showing posts with the label Canada

Project Habakkuk: Britain’s Secret Ship Made of Ice

Feb 24, 2017

Desperate times call for desperate measures, and no time in history was as desperate as the time when the world’s most powerful nations were...

Alert: The Most Northern Settlement in The World

Feb 3, 2017

Located just over eight hundred kilometers away from the North Pole, the community of Alert, on the northeastern tip of Ellesmere Island, in...

The Chemical Valley of Sarnia

Jan 27, 2017

These tall chimneys billowing thick, toxic smoke stand on the banks of the Saint Clair River, on the outskirts of the Canadian city of Sarni...

Kitsault: The Ghost Town Where Lights Are Still On But No One’s Home

Jan 18, 2017

Think ghost town and you’ll probably imagine ruins —roofless houses, dirty broken windows, rotting floors, but at Kitsault, on the North Coa...

The ‘Whiskey War’ of Hans Island

Dec 13, 2016

In the remote north of the Atlantic Ocean, right on the edge of the freezing waters of the Arctic Ocean, lies a tiny speck of an island. Nam...

Cheltenham Badlands in Caledon

Nov 10, 2016

The Cheltenham Badlands is an area in Caledon, Canada, consisting of bare, windswept red hills and gullies displaying spectacular colors tha...

The Half House of St. Patrick Street, Toronto

Sep 8, 2016

This old Victorian-era row house on St. Patrick Street, in the heart of Toronto, Canada, has been cut in half with surgical precision. The h...

The Colored Pebbles of Lake McDonald

Jun 16, 2016

The Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana, on the border with Canada, is home to more than 700 lakes, although only 131 of thes...

The Murals of Sherbrooke

Jun 9, 2016

Over the last fifteen years, the city of Sherbrooke, in southern Quebec, Canada, has been trying to animate its old downtown area by creatin...

John Hooper’s Public Art And Sculptures

May 23, 2016

Located in front of Barbour's General Store on King Street in downtown Saint John, in New Brunswick, Canada, is a set of eleven life-siz...