Happy Canada Day
Time to do some flag-waving! Tomorrow is July 1st, Canada Day, and also the birthday of a dear friend Patricia Taylor. For years we thought the national holiday was in her honour! Then we found that it wasn’t that at all, it was Canada’s birthday, an opportunity to wave our maple leaf flags, something we don’t do enough of these days. Ride ‘em Cowboy
The World-Famous Williams Lake Stampede is scheduled to run this year from Friday, June 28th to Monday, July 1st. It’s an annual event that put the city of Williams Lake on the map. Some of you might be saying, exactly where on the map is Williams Lake? It’s in the heart of the B.C. Interior. If you’re driving, take the Trans Canada highway to Cache Creek and keep going north through Clinton and 100 Mile House and the next stop is Williams Lake. It’s a city of 11,000 residents but serves a large trading area of over 50,000 people. Ranching is the major industry in the area that stretches north to Quesnel, east to Horsefly, yes Horsefly, south to Clinton, and west to Bella Coola on the B.C. coast. North of 60
You would think it would be easy for golfers to get a tee time at midnight. Not if it’s the longest day of the year and you’re in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories! The longest day this year falls on June 20th. The sun never really sets on that day north of the 60th parallel, and the tee sheet will probably be packed for the 76th annual Midnight Classic. |
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