Being a “classical composer” today means more or less what it meant a hundred years ago; that is, writing symphonies, concertos and sonatas for performance by orchestras, string quartets and solo [...]
The drive from Edmonton to Medicine Hat takes a little under six hours. It’s early January, and a chinook is blowing as I pass through Calgary and turn east on the Trans-Canada. The sunrise marks [...]
Outside the town of Jasper sits Lake Edith, a stunning of natural jewel. Tasteful cabins ring the lake; the owners tend to be families who have held the lease rights for generations. They also [...]
As we crawl outside our tent, the golden glow of an autumn sunrise makes its way over towering coal slags and toward a distant hillside on the site of Mountain Park, a ghost town since 1950. The [...]
At the Banff Springs Hotel, Peter ran into a man he knew who was sharing a room with a slim, youthful looking woman who protested, when someone remarked how much like a kid she seemed, “Oh, but [...]
