Nestled on the St. Lawrence River in Eastern Ontario, Upper Canada Village represents a busy community in the 1860’s. We visit it every few years with a whole group of homeschoolers, and each year something else stands out. One year it was the ripe pears falling from the trees, one year it was being handed […]
Ottawa Outings
Pro-Life: Resource Links and Ottawa March
On Thursday, well over 20,000 people of all ages filled Parliament Hill in Ottawa to march in support of life and to protest female gendercide which occurs in Canada as well as throughout the world. As homeschoolers, we are privileged to make political activity part of our learning. Our children are part of the protest […]
Field Trip: Heritage Mica Festival
We visited a mine. The Silver Queen Mica Mine was just as in all those wonderful story books, but, fortunately, not so deep. The walls were oozing wet and it was very cold and dark and exciting and full of puddles. This mine, at Murphy’s Point Provincial Park, produced a lot of mica. Because the crystals form […]
Whales Tohora: Thoughts about Whales and Ultimate Reality
No photography, no eating, no drinking, and no swearing. That notice was posted throughout the Whales Tohora exhibit which included skeletons of stranded whales donated by the Maori of New Zealand. The Maori had requested that, in keeping with their spiritual practices, there would be no photography or swearing in the exhibition. I had not ever […]
Field Trip: Van Gogh Up Close
One rainy day last week, we visited the Van Gogh Up Close exhibit at the National Gallery of Canada. What a treat! Even though we have books with reproductions of Van Gogh’s paintings, and even though every single one of his works is available online, there is nothing like actually seeing the real paintings. We […]