My grandparents' house in New Brunswick is in the countryside, in the midst of land that seems like it hasn't changed all that much in centuries, and walking a couple of minutes back into the bush will isolate you from all the evidence of civilization. Here, amid this stand of partially submerged treees, a family of beavers built a dam - you can see it in the center of the photo, though somewhat obscured by the trees - and it's because of their dikes that the area is flooded to the extent that it is. Not only the calmness and clarity of the water, but the fact that there's no refuse there - no abandoned tires, no chocolate bar wrappers, no discarded Tim Horton's cups - make it almost feel like not part of the world.Which really goes to show what the situation is, when something doesn't feel normal because there isn't litter around.
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Visit any Canadian community that already existed in 1914, and you're practically assured to find a war memorial there - carved with names upon names of the fallen, no matter how few people called that place home when the soldiers went Over There. Photographed below is a representative sample: the war memorial in Minto, New Brunswick. They help, I think, teach us respect, and demonstrate that slowly but surely, we might be getting a lesson through our thick heads after all. Consider what would have been going on a hundred years ago - would there have been protests in the streets over invading Iraq in 1903, of shoring up rebels against an unpalatable dictator in 1911, or spending ten years in Afghanistan from 1901?They didn't have the experience back then - that was when war was still "glorious." There is such a thing as progress... now we know better. Somewhat.
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Forget what I wrote a couple of weeks ago about how Air Canada doesn't run a flight monopoly - in some cities, this actually is the case. Case in point: Fredericton International Airport in Fredericton, New Brunswick, where all regularly scheduled flights are run by Air Canada Express, connecting it to Toronto, Montreal, and Halifax. I was through there this weekend, arriving and departing in the deep darkness. Pictured here is C-FFJA, a CRJ200 regional jet that ran the 5:30 AM flight to Toronto Pearson, the airport's first flight of the day - and aside from a completely dark Dash 8 at the other end of the field, it was the sole and solitary aircraft there.Been a while since I've boarded a plane without going by jetway.
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Seven years ago my travels took me east to the Maritimes, specifically New Brunswick, and one of the places I ended up while there was a country fair in Gagetown - the sort, I imagine, you can find across rural North America. I know that beer isn't delivered by horse-drawn carriage anymore outside of special occasions, but really, how often would you see something like this in the Greater Toronto Area or the Lower Mainland? Aside from riots or demonstrations that bring out the mounted police, how often do you see horses in cities, period?
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