The pass between Pays Plat and Cavers at the top of Lake Superior is nearly 11 km long divided almost evenly between uphill and downhill escarpments with grades approaching 8% on many sections so those who are weak stomached or decide to skimp on new brakes for the car need to turn around and go back to Toronto.
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GRAN’S CANADA HIGHWAY – EPISODE 6: THUNDER BAY TO KENORA by Jaimie Vernon
Posted in Family, life, Opinion, Serialized Book with tags Bob Segarini, Canada, Canadian National Railway, Canadian Pacific Railway, Cavers, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Dryden, Eagle Lake, Elsie MacGill, English River, Fort William, Grand Trunk Railway, Highway 61, Hudson's Bay Company, Hurricane Bomber, Jacques de Noyon, Jaimie Vernon, John Dryden, Kakabeka Falls, Kama, Kaministiquia, Kenora, Lake Superior, Lakehead Region, National Transcontinental Railway, Ojibwe, Pierre de La Vérendrye, Port Arthur, Portage-aux-Rats, road trip, Sir Wilfred Laurier, Sleeping Giant, Thor, Thunder Bay, Trans-Canada Highway, Wannange Lake on August 3, 2020 by segariniGRAN’S CANADA HIGHWAY – EPISODE 5: THE SOO by Jaimie Vernon
Posted in Family, life, Opinion, Serialized Book with tags Algoma Railway, American, Angelina Napolitano, Canadian Motor Hotel, Etienne Brule, Highway 17, Knight's Inn, Lake Superior, Marathon, Montreal River, Ojibwa, RCAF, road trip, Sault Ste. Marie, Soo locks, Terry Fox, Thunder Bay, Trans-Canada Highway, Wawa, Wawa Goose, World War 2 on July 27, 2020 by segarini
The Ojibwa called the area Baawitigong, which roughly translates as place of the rapids, and was used as a central gathering spot during the region’s whitefish season on the St. Mary’s River which has rolling rapids and feeds the city that now stands there.
GRAN’S CANADA HIGHWAY – EPISODE 4: ONTARI-ARI-ARI-O by Jaimie Vernon
Posted in Family, life, Opinion, Review, Serialized Book with tags Big Nickel, Bob Segarini, Canadian Shield, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Gasoline Alley, Gordon Lightfoot, Hwy 17, Hwy 400, Jaimie Vernon, James Worthington, Kenora, NASA, Newmarket, Orillia, pre-Cambrian, Saulta Ste. Marie, Skylark, Sudbury, Temagami, the moon, Thunder Bay, Trans-Canada Highway on July 20, 2020 by segarini
The Province of Ontario has a total area of 9,984,670 km2 of which 9,000,000 km2 is either farmland, forest or impenetrable igneous rock which geologists have affectionately named The Canadian (Precambrian) Shield; Not to be confused with the post-Cambrian, menopausal-Cambrian or bi-Cambrian Shields. In the 1960s, NASA sent astronauts to Sudbury’s nickel mine slag heaps to do practice runs on its hostile terrain because it made for a close approximation of the surface of the Moon. When they actually got to the Moon, much to NASA’s surprise, there were no nickel miners to be found.
GRAN’S CANADA HIGHWAY – EPISODE 1 by Jaimie Vernon
Posted in Family, life, Opinion, Review, Serialized Book with tags 1975, A Motor Tour of Canada, All-Red Route., Banff, Canada, Diefenbaker, Ektakrome, Fernweh, Halifax, Henry Ford, Highway 17, Hudson's Bay Company, Jack Haney, Jasper, Kenora, Kodachrome, Kodak, Lake Superior, Newfoundland, Olds REO, Rogers Pass, Scenic Lookout, Thomas Wilby, Thunder Bay, Trans-Canada Highway, Victoria on June 22, 2020 by segarini
Travelogues can be a matter of personal taste, and I expect that this one is no exception. However, I’d like to think that setting my family’s road trips against the backdrop of Canada’s geographically challenging countryside, and history, will not only entertain but maybe, hopefully, inspire others to do the same. [once we’re free to travel again, of course].
JAIMIE VERNON – MY SUMMER HOLIDAY 1975: Part 3
Posted in Opinion with tags Assiniboine Park Zoo, Bison, Bob Segarini, Buffalo, Canadian Music Trans Canada Highway, Colorado, Crescent Lake, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, elk, Goddo, Greg Godovitz, Hitching Post Motel, Island Park, Jaimie Vernon, Jasper National Park, Manitoba, Miette Hot Springs, Moose, mountain goats, North Battleford, Pike's Peak, Portage La Prairie, Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Skylark, Thunder Bay, Travels With My Amp, Whistler Mountain, Winnipeg, Yellow Quill Motel, Yorkton on June 20, 2015 by segarini
When last we left our intrepid 12 year-old he was leaving the confines of his home Province for the first time ever with his Grandmother Vernon in her 1972 Skylark; excited and inspired to see what was beyond the moon-like terrain of Ontario on the historic Trans-Canada Highway.
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JAIMIE VERNON – MY SUMMER HOLIDAY 1975 – PART 1
Posted in Opinion with tags Big Nickel, Bob Segarini, Canadian Music Trans Canada Highway, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Expo 67, Jaimie Vernon, Kenora, Lake Huron, Lake Superior, moon landing, NASA, North Bay, Ontario, Orillia, Port Arthur, road trip, Route 17, Sault Ste. Marie, Skylark, Sudbury, Summer Holiday, Theselon, Three's A Crowd, Thunder Bay, Travel, WW2 on June 6, 2015 by segarini
For those remotely following along at home you may know that my current day gig is to impersonate a security guard at cemeteries around Toronto. On Sunday and Monday nights I’m usually assigned to Pine Hills in Scarborough. Many of my relatives are buried there as I’ve posted most recently in acknowledging my mother’s mother’s 100th birthday.
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 