Category: Industry

I finally got out yesterday for some photography – a 2-hour wandering drive with no plan except to take pictures of whatever caught my attention. It felt great, and I’ve posted 24 of the photos here as well as 3 short videos. I’ve been pecking away at the 3...

I always enjoy my time in Dawson Creek, and the more time I spend here, the more I like it. I never feel like I’ve seen all there is to see, and the people are consistently wonderful. Saturday, September 12th, day 4 of the trip, was our day to...

Following Wednesday’s touring of Dawson Creek, I spent about 1/2 an hour taking more photos around Dawson Creek on Thursday morning, then headed for Hinton, 462 km to the southeast. By 08:40 I had crossed the border into Alberta and was well into the flat country on Highway 43....

Today is the 20th anniversary of one of the blackest days in the history of the Canadian North, and in Canadian labour history. On September 18, 1992, an explosion at the Giant gold mine at Yellowknife, Northwest Territories killed 9 men – it turned out to be not an...

Yesterday was our day to explore Fairbanks. This was my 1-bedroom apartment at the Wedgewood Resort. This was the view from my apartment yesterday at 03:29, half an hour before sunrise. There’s lots of interesting stuff to look at on the walk over to the restaurant, which is at...

As I start writing this, it’s a few minutes before sunrise, which will be at 4:02. It’s only 47°F (8.3°C) right now but it’s forecast to be mostly sunny with a high of 69 (20C) – a perfect day to explore Fairbanks! Much of yesterday was cold and wet,...

There was an interesting bird at the Whitehorse airport yesterday that may well be the start of serious money funnelling through this town. C-GIPI is a 1980 Dehavilland DHC-7-102 (commonly known as a Dash 7) conducting geotechnical surveys. My guess, due to the size of the aircraft, is that...