Category Archives: Canada

Contain your enthusiasm

14 Monday Aug 2017

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East Village, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

A pop-up retail space made up of stores in covered shipping containers at 4 St. and 7 Ave. S.E. in Calgary’s East Village, just steps away from the National Music Centre. (The space used to be occupied by a gas station.)

Exotic flying animal

12 Saturday Aug 2017

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Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Some of the fanciful art adorning temporary construction hoarding near Calgary city hall.

Straight lines and curves

11 Friday Aug 2017

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Calgary, Alberta, Canada

This public space connects, from left, the 4th Street S.W. LRT station, the gleaming-new 707 Fifth St. S.W. building, the Calgary Courts Centre and Harley Hotchkiss Gardens.

Listen

09 Wednesday Aug 2017

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National Music Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

One of the many instruments on display (and playable!) at the National Music Centre in Calgary.

Telus Sky rising

08 Tuesday Aug 2017

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Sky rising

Telus Sky under construction, seen from the arcade outside of Hudson’s Bay department store in downtown Calgary.

Intoxicating smells

03 Thursday Aug 2017

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Calgary, Alberta, Canada

This warning about intoxicating odours is truth in advertising for this food truck, spotted at the Calgary Folk Music Festival this weekend.

Watching the sun go down

02 Wednesday Aug 2017

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Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Here are a few folks taking a short break from the music at the Calgary folk festival this weekend, watching a smoke-tinged sunset at Prince’s Island Park.

Saddle up!

19 Wednesday Jul 2017

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Calgary, Alberta, Canada

This sign marks the eastern end of the pedestrian-cyclist shared zone on Stephen Avenue, just across from Calgary city hall.

Owing nothing

18 Tuesday Jul 2017

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Owing nothing

Some intriguing street art on an unused building on Macleod Tr. in Calgary, across from Stampede Park.

Rouleauville

17 Monday Jul 2017

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Calgary, Alberta, Canada

One of the more fascinating things for me at the recently wrapped Calgary Stampede was to hang out at the historical exhibits in the Western Oasis at the BMO Centre. Tucked away in the far corner of the exhibition hall was a display of historical photos and old maps, including this one showing Rouleauville, which we know today as Calgary’s Mission neighbourhood.