How a bike ride across Canada restored my belief in people
DOUG FIRBY: Something happened over the past year that changed my view of Canadians and perhaps of human nature itself. We crossed Canada by bike ($)
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by Doug Firby | Jan 3, 2022
DOUG FIRBY: Something happened over the past year that changed my view of Canadians and perhaps of human nature itself. We crossed Canada by bike ($)
by Doug Firby | Oct 4, 2021
by Doug Firby | Sep 28, 2021
by Doug Firby | Sep 15, 2021
CYCLING CANADA: Gilbert Desjardins work is frequently exhibited in and around the Montreal-to-Mont-Laurier region (FREE)
by Doug Firby | Sep 14, 2021
CYCLING CANADA: Richard Briggs eclectic bicycles range from fairly conventional to a variety of Frankenbikes (FREE)
by The Frugal Traveller | Sep 6, 2021
CYCLING ACROSS CANADA: Painting was therapy at first, ‘so I wouldn’t spiral into depression.’ Now she has her own gallery (FREE)
by Doug Firby | Aug 24, 2021
CYCLING CANADA: The homestead is no-frills, but felt cozy as the family bustled about their daily chores (FREE)
by The Frugal Traveller | Aug 20, 2021
CYCLING CANADA: “Disappointment” doesn’t describe the feeling of being sidelined after a broken collarbone (FREE)
by Doug Firby | Aug 17, 2021
CYCLING CANADA: Young’s General Store is there in all its rustic glory, greeting visitors to this northern Ontario town – even if its moose is in storage (FREE)
by Doug Firby | Aug 9, 2021
CYCLING ACROSS CANADA: Damn those dangerous drivers. I wish they could see the world from a bicycle seat. Perhaps it would make them reconsider their recklessness (FREE)
by Doug Firby | Aug 4, 2021
CYCLING CANADA: It would be an insult to say Sheri is a packrat; all of the hundreds of knickknacks she has have a history (FREE)
by Doug Firby | Jul 28, 2021
CYCLING ACROSS CANADA: “We need a plan to fully reopen the border so our businesses can survive” (FREE)
by Doug Firby | Jul 26, 2021
CYCLING ACROSS CANADA: Winnipeg has taken a shine to urban cycling (FREE)
by Doug Firby | Jul 21, 2021
CONNECTOUR CHRONICLES: Members offer a place for touring cyclists to pitch their tents and grab a shower. In exchange: an evening of conversation (FREE)
by Doug Firby | Jul 14, 2021
CONNECTOUR CHRONICLES: The bees came at us like a fleet of enemy fighter planes. ‘They started just hitting me. It was kind of like a cloud of bees’ (FREE)
by Doug Firby | Jul 12, 2021
CONNECTOUR CHRONICLES: ‘I threw down my bike and ran over to her. She was lying still on the pavement, entangled in her bike’ (FREE)
by Doug Firby | Jul 4, 2021
CONNECTOUR CHRONICLES: A couple of us, suffering from physical and heat exhaustion, laid down and passed out for a few minutes of respite. But there was a neighbourly antidote to a heat wave (FREE)
by Doug Firby | Jun 28, 2021
CONNECTOUR CHRONICLES: Tattoo artist Robb Syre moved to the Alberta mountain resort town to chase a dream with his best friend. Instead, he lost his friend to the virus (FREE)
by Doug Firby | Jun 23, 2021
CONNECTOUR CHRONICLES: By the door is an original painting by renowned Indigenous artist Norval Morrisseau, one of dozens of pieces in Wilking’s collection (FREE)