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Ghost Towns Of Canada

By //  by Katja Wulfers

For those of us who came of age during the Freddy Krueger and “Hollywood Chainsaw Hooker” era - I'm guessing the person who green-lit that movie is now working as the set designer for a musical comedy remake of Hamlet at a backwoods dinner theatre - we see shadows where there aren't any, and hear ghostly car radios playing from abandoned vehicles. Perhaps it’s a fascination with sad and eerie stories, or maybe the romance of exploring derelict ruins, but visits to the ghost towns of Canada have …

Filed Under: Canada, Travel Tagged With: Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, farming, fishing, forestry, ghost towns, horror movies, lumber, Manitoba, mining, Newfoundland, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan

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Dear Millicent: Mustard Stains Harshing My Oktoberfest Mellow

Dear Millicent, October is my favorite time of the year. It's not about falling leaves and pumpkins for me, but rather Beer and Bratwurst. Zigga-zagga, zigga-zagga, hoy, hoy, hoy! Bring on Oktoberfest! So here's my …

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School is starting soon. It’s the time of the year when I have to pull up my organizational bootstraps and prepare for the onslaught of paper that will soon be pouring out of backpacks and onto my kitchen table. I’d like …

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