Month: January 2013

When I was a child in the 1940s, for obvious reasons, no one referred to Toronto streetcars as “red-rockets. However, despite their sedate speed, our

The postage stamp seen above was issued by Canada Post in 1949 to commemorate the entry of Newfoundland into the Canadian Confederation. My father was

                                  On 31 December 2012, when the ten-second count-down began prior to midnight, the CN Tower flashed ten consecutive beams of bright light that shot