Have you Hugged a Tree Lately?
It was back about 20 years ago while interviewing a pioneer of a remote northern Ontario railway town, that I first heard of someone talking...
Elle Andra-Warner
The Legacy of Grand Portage’s George Morrison
Born in Chippewa City in 1919, George Morrison went on to become one of America’s most distinguished and renowned abstract expressionist artists with his landscape...
Chief Blackstone and the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-20
The world seems somewhat surreal these days. Everything looks normal—home, streets, stores, Lake Superior, lake freighters, cars—yet there’s been a dramatic shift in our day-to-day...
The Omars and Yooperlites of Northern Wilds
During your travels in Northern Wilds, have you come across a distinctive rock with an almost perfectly circular hole in it? Well, chances are you...
Luxury condo living on Thunder Bay’s waterfront
Many of us have heard the phrase “home is where you hang your hat.” And if home is in one of the two buildings of...
Red Snow, Ice Discs and Ice Worms
White snow that turns red, really? A few months ago, while reading the non-fiction book Barrow’s Boys: The Original Extreme Adventurers by Fergus Fleming, I came across...
Special Olympics Canada comes to Thunder Bay
National media attention will be on sports in Thunder Bay from February 25-29, when more than 1,200 athletes, managers and mission staff from across Canada...
The First Female Lawyers: Legal Trailblazers
Back 150-100 years ago, becoming a lawyer and practicing law was closed to women pretty well around the world. But breaking barriers is something women...
