School's Out, Let's Go.

22/11/2020

My latest story has been a few years in the making. But finally I am able to tell the story of the "Queen's Pack"

As a kid growing up at North Pacific Cannery on the north coast of British Columbia, I ate a lot of fish. It came served in many forms on my plate at lunch and dinner, from smoked salmon and black cod to my favourite Halibut and Witches. Photo Credit: Philippson family collection. |(Gillnetters bein...

02/08/2019

Part 3

We are up early in Ginglox and say our goodbyes to Lavina. It has been a wonderful and emotional visit to a place that I only knew of in stories. But now 3 gen

01/08/2019

Our family's adventure along the Nisga'a highway

We have arrived in Gingolx. The twisting road that brought us here has diminished the appetite of some of our group of 5. But the first thing we see is a Seafo

01/08/2019

It never fails, the best things in life are sometimes right in our own backyard. I grew up in Prince Rupert hearing stories about Kincolith, Greenville, a

02/04/2018

17 checked off 3 more to go

The Cliffs of Étretat in Normandy. The lavender fields of Provence. Paris. So much of Paris. If you're looking for inspiration for your next trip, look no further this than collection of 20 of the most beautiful places in France.

30/01/2018

24/01/2018

The summer of 1971 was great we had a lot of fun but we were happy to return to our home in Prince Rupert. So when my parents sat us down in January of 1972 to ...

29/08/2017

I wanted to share this next story of the Cannery Kid series with you

When the Herring season started a new Assistant Manager arrived . Mr. Winter came with his young family in the spring of 1972. The parents were originally from ...

13/06/2017

here is # 5 of my Cannery Kid series

Working at the cannery was not a Monday to Friday kind of job It was more 24/7. However on Sunday my dad did his best to come up with an adventure while Mum was...

11/06/2017

Our first summer out at the cannery was the year I turned 9.  As luck would have it there were lots of girls my age that lived out there and they  were seasoned...

11/06/2017

Our visits to the cannery would change in the years to follow as Dad would take us out for adventures in the off season. One of my favourite things to do was di...

11/06/2017

Not many of us get to see the home we lived in as a child become a museum, North Pacific Cannery, where I spent much of my childhood, however, has become a muse...

06/06/2017

Hannah's time in Tuk is drawing to a close. She is trying all kinda of new foods

Part of travelling is eating the local cuisine. Maybe things you've never even heard of or thought you would/could ever eat.  Since I've come up to Tuk, I have ...

22/05/2017

Hannah and I are excited to have two guest bloggers join our site. Their stories of adventure from the past and present are coming up. Stay tuned

As spring turns to summer and I start counting down to Portugal, we've got some more exciting stories coming up.  My high school chum Camille Gladstone is in Va...

22/05/2017

latest post from Tuktoyaktuk

Sorry I've been so MIA. I did this great hike around Tuk and up to the DEW line and then proceeded to get a flu bug and spend the next week in bed. Or trying to...

15/04/2017

Hannah's latest post. It is a long one you might want to grab a cup of tea

Ooh boy has it been a wild ride…. I’m trying to find a way to write about the last two months in a positive uplifting way without oversharing. There has certain...

15/03/2017

Part 3 of Hannah's Adventures in the Great White North. Time to make her way back to Tuk and put her life together as a homeless couch surfing teacher

The road has been closed for a week now. The blizzards have been wild. The winds got up to 90km/hr in Tuk. Today (Monday) I was finally able to get a temp burne...

12/03/2017

The Northern Lights in all their splendor

Hello! I have had quite the adventure. So to start things off, I am effectively homeless! Super fun right? Sunday I was home, my house was chilly and I wasn’t g...

12/03/2017

Canada's North is an amazing. Hannah and the rest of the teachers learn about some traditional modes of transport for Pro D day

So yesterday was amazing. We left the initial cabins and half of us went dog sledding and half snowmobiling on little Bravos. I started with dog sledding, I wan...

11/02/2017

Hannah has taken to making her own warm mittens

My phone broke so I don't have any pictures to share. And I'm sick so I don't really have any stories to share that aren't school related. Which are dull to non...

28/01/2017

Long ago I lived in the mountains. It was beautiful and I never knew how beautiful the skies could be. When I moved to Alberta, specifically Drayton, a world of...

22/01/2017

Went out for a walk with Jana today who is a volunteer at the school through Cuso International  and facilitates the e-learning programs at the school. She's fr...

21/01/2017

When I leave the house, I put on my snow pants, then my boots. My hat, sometimes goggles, neckwarmer, parka and gloves. It looks a little like this monster: I c...

13/01/2017

Stopped by the sunrise festival today! We all stood in a big man-made pingo for a photo op, and then wandered around and took pictures and such.   Sunrise over ...

09/01/2017

I'm not very exciting you guys. You're all like, WOW ADVENTURE and I'm like WOW I SPENT TOO MUCH ONLINE SHOPPING.  So Blizzards are bad. It got up to 101 km/hr ...

06/01/2017

I finally have internet so I can update and talk to all you lovely people. I've been writing my blog in a word document until I could post it. So here are yeste...

05/01/2017

Hannah's 5th installment about life in the north

So I have no internet or phone service at my house. Today I also had no internet service at school. So I  felt pretty cut off. This morning I was up and cheery ...

01/01/2017

-31 today? No biggie. I'm at the B&B and so are two Germans (well one lives in Calmar, but the other is from Munich) They're photographers /videographers and th...

01/01/2017

No fun updates today. I'm still in the B&B.  I planned to go out for a walk, get a post box, mail a letter, get some stamps, get utilities transferred, all sort...

29/12/2016

The most important lesson I would like to impart from my flight today is that one should never have a pressurized sealed water bottle on a plane. Once you are i...