My Heart's on the Rail

Adam. 21. Anglophile. Bright. Canadian. Dreamer. Explorer. Florence. Guarded. Historian. Introverted. Joyous. Kind. Literate. Musicial. Naive. Optimistic. Ponderer. Quaint. Romantic. Sherlockian. Traveller. Urbanite. Vulnerable. Writer. Xenophile. Youthful. Zany. This is me in twenty-six words.

August 5, 2010 7:01 pm

Sultans of String in concert playing one of my favourite tunes by this ensemble, the lovely and mysterious Auyuittuq Sunrise from their latest cd, Yalla Yalla!

Enjoy!!

September 8, 2010 1:33 pm
"Older Canadians speak mistily of the train. They talk of its spirit, and how it defined the land. For many who arrived her as immigrants and made their first journeys inland by rail, the train was Canada. They say it taight them pride and respect in their new land, and what it meant to be Canadian. And those same people say they wouldn’t have learned that on an airplane or in a car. They say if we let the passenger train die, something in us will die, too."

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From Tom Allen’s Rolling Home


April 1, 2011 3:41 pm
artgalleryofontario: Franklin Carmichaelborn Orillia, Ontario, 1890; died Toronto, Ontario, 1945 Cameron Lake, 1939 oil on wood, 25.4 x 30.4 cm The Thomson Collection © Art Gallery of Ontario

artgalleryofontario:

Franklin Carmichael
born Orillia, Ontario, 1890; died Toronto, Ontario, 1945

Cameron Lake, 1939
oil on wood, 25.4 x 30.4 cm
The Thomson Collection © Art Gallery of Ontario

June 17, 2011 11:06 pm
Need to see this place for myself so badly!! Or stay here one night!!

Need to see this place for myself so badly!! Or stay here one night!!

(via travelthisworld)

July 15, 2011 11:49 am
Tomorrow is National Parks Day—celebrating 100 years of the Canadian National Parks system—but I thought I would celebrate a little early with this stunning photo of Moraine Lake, located in the first National Park of Canada—Banff.

Tomorrow is National Parks Day—celebrating 100 years of the Canadian National Parks system—but I thought I would celebrate a little early with this stunning photo of Moraine Lake, located in the first National Park of Canada—Banff.

(via theworldwelivein)

July 22, 2011 11:00 am

I love the National Film Board’s little documentaries! And that I figured out how to embed, expect some more to come on this site in the very near future!

July 30, 2011 12:17 pm
travelthisworld: View of Montreal submitted by: juliettel, thanks!

travelthisworld:

View of Montreal

submitted by: juliettel, thanks!

August 2, 2011 6:04 pm
drueisms: Taken by Emmanuel Coupe “This image was taken in winter time in a arid area of the Canadian Rockies. Temperatures where below -30 degrees Celsius yet because there was no snow fall the surface of the lake was uncovered allowing me to see and capture the bubbles (gas release from lake bed) that were trapped in the frozen waters.” This is so neat. And I think we need to give some loving to my Tumblr Radar because it has found two awesome photos today! :-D

drueisms:

Taken by Emmanuel Coupe

“This image was taken in winter time in a arid area of the Canadian Rockies. Temperatures where below -30 degrees Celsius yet because there was no snow fall the surface of the lake was uncovered allowing me to see and capture the bubbles (gas release from lake bed) that were trapped in the frozen waters.”

This is so neat.

And I think we need to give some loving to my Tumblr Radar because it has found two awesome photos today! :-D

August 15, 2011 2:35 pm
architectureandarts: Montreal Biosphere (1967) designed by Sir R. Buckminster Fuller. 

architectureandarts:

Montreal Biosphere (1967) designed by Sir R. Buckminster Fuller. 

August 19, 2011 12:55 am
theworldwelivein: End of the day at François, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada©  Rick Gravelle

theworldwelivein:

End of the day at François, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
©  Rick Gravelle