100+ Things to do in Regina
A few summers ago I put out a list of 20 things to do in Regina. I thought it was a pretty good list and it got some positive reviews. It came on the heels of a few other similar, ...
Categories: Canada, History, Regina, Saskatchewan
Ice Skating in Downtown Regina
When I was younger, I really loved winter. I loved sledding, snowball fights and building snowmen. One of my favourite pastimes was visiting a little outdoor ice rink a few blocks ...
Categories: Canada, History, Regina, Saskatchewan
150 Facts About Canada
Although the hot summer days of July are long behind us, 2017 is still Canada's 150th year. In honour of Canada's sesquicentennial birthday, I decided to put together a list of 150 ...
Categories: Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, History, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, PEI, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Yukon
Inside Eastern State Penitentiary
Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania shut its doors in 1970. A year later, in 1971, it would briefly reopen and house inmates from Holmesburg Prison after a dev ...
Categories: History, Pennsylvania, USA
What To Do in Historic Philadelphia
A few months ago I entered a contest for a trip for two to visit Philadelphia on Two Bad Tourists. Normally contests like this are limited to United States residents so when I saw ...
Categories: History, Pennsylvania, Travel Tips, USA
100 Facts About Winnipeg
I have been told my entire life that Winnipeg was just like Regina, but slightly larger. This gave the impression that there wasn't much to see in Winnipeg and that it, along with ...
Why The World Probably Won’t End Tomorrow
If you haven't been following the news (or you chose to tune it out ? in which case, I don't blame you) you may have missed the recent rhetoric between North Korea and the United S ...
Categories: History
Regina’s Night of Horror
31 Known Dead; Over 100 Hurt in Disaster Regina Mourns for Scores Killed or Hurt as Tornado Cuts through Heart of City; Casualties and Loss are Terribly Heavy Originally printed ...
Categories: Canada, History, Regina, Saskatchewan
Regina Spanish Flu Memorial Fund
While the newspapers screamed of war overseas, the real war was just beginning back home. After four long years of grueling trench warfare, thousands of Canadian soldiers left E ...
Categories: Canada, History, Regina, Saskatchewan, Spanish Influenza