August 2023

We started our journey in Halifax because, if we have a successful transit of the Northwest Passage (NWP), we will disembark here. The expedition convenes in Vancouver so we took the opportunity to cross Canada by train. We stayed at the Westin Hotel because this was previously the Canadian Pacific Hotel and the starting point […]

Peggy’s Cove is the home of Canada’s most photographed lighthouse. The rugged, now wave swept outcrops of granite, are the exposed sections of the primeval continent of Pangea which have been sculptured into formations known as roche-moutonneés, similar to those on the Lofoten Islands of Norway. The hamlet has 26 regular inhabitants and from the

We are in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is the country’s largest and busiest port on the Atlantic Coast. Following John Cabot’s finding of the Grand Banks the Portuguese, Spanish and French arrived here from 1502 onwards. Eventually the Portuguese and Spanish pulled out of the cod trade and left it to the French and

We flew to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, the country’s largest and busiest port on the Atlantic Coast. En route we overflew the icebergs in the Labrador Sea.