This weekend in Canada is Thanksgiving! In just 6 weeks our neighbours to south will be celebrating this holiday as well. Across North America millions of people will be consuming turkey, mashed potatoes, cranberries and whatever else families eat for their...
73 years ago this week, Igor Gouzenko, a cipher clerk for the Soviet Embassy to Canada defected from the USSR and revealed their secret agenda to the Canadian Government. His defection caused the arrest and conviction of 18 spies, broke up the alliance between...
This week we introduced a new member to our team: Teigan!She’s our new Marketing and Communications Coordinator! Here’s a few words about her first week.“My first week has been really inspiring! Everyone has been warm and welcoming and I’m feeling right at home...
Written by Guest Blogger: Brett Leigh DicksThree people. 62 photographs. Twelve days. 3,550 miles. Santa Barbara to Ottawa. We’re here … Diefenbunker: Canada’s Cold War Museum. [gallery type="rectangular"...
Written by Guest Blogger: Brett Leigh DicksAs a photography-obsessed teenage I used to covet the small selection of monographs the high school library dedicated to the medium. It was there in the sterile scholastic surrounds under the dull glow of neon light that I...
Written by Guest Blogger: Brett Leigh DicksMinuteman Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles were not the only nuclear-armed rockets lurking below the prairies of North Dakota. Watching over the state’s extensive cluster of Minutemans was the Stanley R. Mickelsen...
Written by Guest Blogger: Brett Leigh DicksIt might be the slowest elevator in North Dakota, but as you inch down below the North Dakota prairie, the destination is certainly worth the drawn-out ride.When the concertinaed gate retracts you are delivered into a...
Written by Guest Blogger: Brett Leigh DicksStanding on the observation patio and staring out at Mt. Rushmore solicits an array of emotions. My grandfather’s family first came to North America in 1607. My...
Written by Guest Blogger: Brett Leigh DicksSitting in the middle of Idaho’s high desert is large amorphous brick building. While there is no questioning the building’s lofty presence as it rises out of the flat surrounds of the central Idaho landscape, the...
Bond: I already have a dinner jacket.Vesper: There are dinner jackets and then there are dinner jackets; this is the latter. And I need you to look like a man who belongs at that table.Bond: How... it's tailored?Vesper: I sized you up the moment we met... We’re...
