January 2021

Beer Here

Posted on Jan 16, 2021

When I was growing up on the North Shore, it was the land of pubs. Mind you these were not the great, generally high quality operations one would experience walking down any street in England with a brilliant selection of proper beers and a gastro-quality food menu.
We're talking the type of pub where your choice was Labatt Blue, Molson Canadian or...

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Cleveland Dam

Posted on Jan 03, 2021

Have you ever wondered what Clark Kent and Vancouver have in common? Well wonder no longer!
This spectacular feat of concrete forming sits just below Grouse Mountain in The District of North Vancouver.
When it was built in the early 1950's under the direction of, and named after, Ernest Cleveland. As the first Commissioner of the Greater Vancouver Wa...

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