Photos of the Canadian Landscape
After two weeks of spending some quality time with my family and some friends in Cranbrook, British Columbia, I have finally gotten around to processing and uploading all of the photos from my recent cross-Canada road trip that I took on my Nikon D5000, onto my Flickr account. You can view the entire collection of photos here.
On that note, the photos below have emerged as some of my favourite photos of the Canadian landscape, the landscape of a country that I have fallen completely in love with. Throughout my week-long journey at the end of July from Toronto, ON to Cranbrook, BC, I maintained a regular blog over at renjie.posterous.com that tracked and documented my progress, as well as allowed friends and family to stay in touch.
To everyone who came out to the farewell parties in Waterloo and Toronto, as well as emailed, sent facebook messages and twitter mentions as I made my way across the country, THANK YOU! And a huge THANKS as well to Stacia, Ashley and Chris, Kristle, the Maranita family, and Matt for hosting my stay in all my stopover cities as I made my way to BC.
Enjoy the photos below!
Location: French River, Ontario
This rest stop by the French River located 60 kms from Sudbury, was the first of many rest stops to come on my road trip. This is also where I had blogged that something told me I was headed in the right direction…
The Big Nickel in Sudbury, Ontario
Giant goose sculpture in Wawa, Ontario overlooking Highway 17
Terry Fox Memorial in Thunder Bay, Ontario overlooking the Trans Canada Highway
I had first heard of Canadian Terry Fox back in the early 1990′s when I participated in the annual Terry Fox Run organized by the Hilton Hotel Al Ain in Al Ain, UAE. His courage and determination to run across the country to raise money and awareness for cancer research is definitely something to be admired.
Location: Kakabeka Falls located in the municipality of Oliver Paipoonge, Ontario, 30 km west of the city of Thunder Bay.
As I was driving out of Thunder Bay on the Trans Canada highway on day 3 of my road trip, I saw signs pointing towards the Kakabeka Falls. I’m glad that I did so as the falls were absolutely stunning. You can see more photos of the falls here.
Location: Along the Trans Canada Highway between Thunder Bay and Kenora in northern Ontario
As I made my way to Kenora, ON, I thought I had spotted a group of moose in a field by a farmhouse. So I did the only sensible thing and did a u-turn on the two-lane highway (when it was safe to do so), to take the picture above. As it turns out, what I had seen were statues of moose, instead of the real thing. Perhaps this is the reason why the barn has a big smile on its face?
Location: Along the Trans Canada Highway between Thunder Bay and Kenora in northern Ontario
Location: Along the Trans Canada Highway between Thunder Bay and Kenora in northern Ontario
Location: Kenora, Ontario
The city of Kenora is located approximately 200 kms east of Winnipeg in northwestern Ontario, situated on the Lake of the Woods. You can tell that the lake is an integral part of the city and the surrounding community, when businesses have dedicated boat docks for their customers.
Graffiti street art in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Arts & culture definitely had a presence in the city.
More photos of street art in Winnipeg can be found here.
The Trappist Monastery Provincial Heritage Park in Winnpeg, better known “The Ruins”, is absolutely breathtaking at night.
Driving to Calgary, Alberta through the prairies. Nothing but big sky, and open wide fields for miles on end. Literally.
More photos of big sky can be found here.
Photo taken at the Saskatchewan-Alberta border. Since the prairies are so flat, you can see impending rainstorms way off in the distance. The dark clouds are rain clouds over the city of Medicine Hat, Alberta.
The faces of Alberta beef. Photo taken along the Trans Canada Highway on my way to Calgary, Alberta.
At the Alberta-British Columbia border, looking back into the distance.
Radium in beautiful British Columbia
At a rest stop approximately 100 kms away from Cranbrook, BC on the final leg of my journey.
After 7 days, 5 provinces, 2 time zones and 3,955.40 kms later, I finally made it to Cranbrook, BC
Vancouver in September 2010
As for what my tentative plans are now moving forward, it looks like I will be making my way to Vancouver at the beginning of September for a period of two/three weeks to see what’s going on. There are no definite plans as of yet, I’m hoping to confirm some dates in the next couple of days as well. During this time in September, I’m hoping to meet with some really cool people involved with the social entrepreneurship/social innovation community, and to see where I could possibly fit in.
So if you are in Vancouver in September and would like to grab a coffee or a drink or two, please let me know by getting in touch via email (renjiebutalid at gmail dot com) or hit me up on Twitter/Facebook. Would love to hear from you!
Looking forward to the next step in this adventure.
Your friend,
Renjie
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