Aside from its permanent galleries, the Royal BC Museum in Victoria also hosts temporary exhibitions, which are always very interesting. On my last visit there, they had the “Dragon Bones: When Dinosaurs Ruled China.” On this visit, they had “ Titanic : The Artifact Exhibition.” I had been fascinated with the story of the Titanic sinking, even before the Leonardo di Caprio-Kate Winslet movie became a blockbuster. I read about it when I was a child and what stayed in my memor

Located on a rocky inlet on the Atlantic Ocean, Halifax, Nova Scotia’s provincial capital, is defined by its maritime geography. We were welcomed by a bustling waterfront as we arrived. We were made aware of the fact that this is the same waterfront where steamships once anchored to drop off arriving immigrants from the Old World, many, many years ago. In modern times, it has become a central hub for locals and visitors, always buzzing with energy that is fed by a working por