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Kingston’s Haunted Fortress

Kingston's Haunted Fortress By Michael Rappaport By day, Fort Henry, a 19th century fortress built on a hilltop overlooking Lake Ontario, is Kingston's most popular museum, where Canada's colonial military past is brought dramatically to life. The world famous Fort Henry Guard, comprised of about 100 university and college students, recreates the music, drills and artillery practices of the 1860s British garrison. By night, after the contingent of costumed interpreters have departed, the ghosts of

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LeBreton Flats: Ottawa’s Field of Dreams

LeBreton Flats: Ottawa's Field of Dreams Of all the monuments, museums, sculptures and edifices in Ottawa, perhaps no landmark better epitomizes the nation's capital than an empty field: LeBreton Flats. Until the early 1960's, LeBreton Flats was a thriving working-class neighbourhood just a few blocks from Parliament Hill. But city planners deemed it an eyesore – a blot on the capital's grand vision of itself.So the government expropriated the land and bulldozed the properties. And

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The Islanders: P.E.I. is the place to be

The Islanders: P.E.I. is the place to be By Michael Rappaport "You'll never be an Islander," joshed Erskine Smith, a native Prince Edward Islander, during an evening of storytelling and music at the Victoria Playhouse, located in a small bayside artist colony. To illustrate his point he recounted this tale: A tourist once asked an Islander about the huge boulders that are scattered across farmers' fields along the north shore of PEI; boulders, that were

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