Monday, June 14, 2010

Régina, Saskatchewan




Régina
Long: 50 degrees 26

'NorthLat: 104 degrees 37

'WestPopulation: 199.000

Population Density: 462.4 inhabitants per square kilometer.

Landforms: Northern Saskatchewan: is the forest, marshes, lakes, riversand the southeastern region is mainly grassland with some hills and valleys

Climate: Winter is about -8 degrees C to -19 C degrees. In the summer it is about 10 degrees C to 43 C degrees.

Ecozone: The Prairie Ecozone.

National Park: Victoria Park, Prince Albert Park, Grass Lands Menissawok Natinal Park and National Park.

Primary Industries Co-op Heavy Oil upgraders, Kalium Chemicals (potash mining), Bayer CropScience (agricultural chemicals), Degelman Industries (Agricultural Implements Manufacturing), Brandt Industries (industrial and farm equipment manufacturing), Viterra (Grain Handling) and ADP.

Day 1


Today, was a good day. I woke up to birds singing. The sun was bright and I thought it would be a great start for my morning! It had rained last night, but it was warm now. During my research I came across a website. If you download the program it gave you a hourly update of the weather in Régina, so if we were out and didn't have the T.V. on we could just use my laptop. June is said to be the wettest month of all. THe average it rains in June is 75 millimetres of precipitation. It will probably be hot today since it rained last night. My mom said to wear alot of sunscreen just incase the sun was to hot. back in St.Kitts on hot days you feel the sun really hot on your skin and my mom says its probably no different here.

Like our last stop we had beakfast in the hotel. I was so full, me and my brothers ate a lot of fruit and we had muffins and other filling items. While we were eating my mother was reading the news paper and she came across a site she thought we might be interested in. It was the Government house. I decided to google it to see what people had to say about the place before we went. It read 'Now open to visitors, this was once home to lieutenant-governors of Canada's Northwest Territories.' It was a free tour of the whole house. It was located on 4607 Dewdney Ave Regina, Saskatchewan S4P 3V7 Canada. A lot of people had left their reviews on the website, so I took a second to scan through a couple of them. Everybody had great thing to sasy about the place. they said it was fun and interesting, different then a lot of places. So we decided to go. I told my mom it woudn't hurt to go for a little while then do something else. It was really interesting. We got to go into each of the rooms, and see paintings and really old things. The guides even told us about ghost stories that gave me the chillss.....
But it was a great experience. We goto take a lot of oictures of the house and also with the guides who were dressed up according to the time.I even caught a glimpse of the Lieutenant Governor entering his offices. Every staff person I met from the cleaners to the Commissioniare were fantastic! They provided my family with a lot of extra tid bits that were not included on the tour. The gift shop was a refreshing place, unlike other museum gift shops. The clerk was very helpful and knowledgable about every item in the shop. There was a lot of Canadian made items as well as knick nacks and tea sets. I was impressed with the uniqueness of items they carried. Everything from $1.00 postcards to $500 origami art work. The only things that were lacking are a place to have a drink, and more victorian tea times. They are only once a month and you have to make reservations. We were really dissappointed to miss out on it.





After we left my mother as ready to go to our new stop. My brother remembered that his friend had previously visited Régina and told him that there was a sports hall of fame there. The sports hall of fame is a passion for sports runs deep in Canada, and Saskatchewan is no exception. This upbeat museum offers a diverse collection of memorabilia from a variety of sporting pursuits and teams, as well as profiles of athletes who have been inducted into the province's Hall of Fame. Football, hockey, alpine skiing, speed skating, curling, boxing and fencing are just a few of the sports represented here. Free admission. There was to much to see. there were alot of sports and athlets. My brother new alot of them and their names but i didn't because i don't really watch alot of sports.




We spent almost the rest of the entire day there and we were starting to get hungry so we went to a grocery store because my parents weren't in the mood of eating a at resturant they said that there would be plenty of other days we could go to resturantson our trip. We went to 'Eat healthy foods' grocery store. It was a fair trade foods store and they recylce 99 % of thier waste!!! We bought alot of fruits and vegies. We got cheeses and bread to and ate it and then fell asleep.

Day 2
Wow day 2 already, i was really tiered and i didn't no what we wanted to do. So my dad thought that we could go golfing. My mum was kind of against it because we could gofl anywhere but my dad insisted. So we went to the Long Creek Golf & Country Club. It was a 18-hole championship course, bent grass driving range, CPGA Pro shop and lessons. Modern 11,000 square foot clubhouse, lounge, licensed restaurant and corporate meeting rooms. Public play and tournaments welcome. Excellent banquet facilities.
It was great. We golfed the whole day it was so much fun. there was alot of green grass and it smelt great!!!


Saturday, June 12, 2010

Montreal, Quebec






















Montreal
Latitude = 45.5089, Longitude = -73.5542
Lat = 45 degrees, 30.5 minutes North
Long = 73 degrees, 33.3 minutes West
http://www.satsig.net/maps/lat-long-finder.htm

The population of Montreal on June 7th 2010 is approximately 1,620,698.
http://www.trueknowledge.com/q/population_of_montreal_2010

4,439 per square kilometre http://www.trueknowledge.com/q/population_density_of_montreal_in_2010

Density 4439 km2 (2006)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal

The average temperature in Montreal, Quebec, Canada is 7.0 °C (45 °F).
The average temperature range is 31 °C.
The highest monthly average high temperature is 26 °C (79 °F) in July.
The lowest monthly average low temperature is -13 °C (9 °F) in January.
http://www.climatetemp.info/canada/montreal-quebec.html

Ecozone: Boreal Shield
Montreal Botanical Garden http://www.tripwolf.com/en/guide/show/14066/Canada/Montreal/Montreal-Botanical-GardenMontreal-Botanical-Garden

Capitol Industries Inc.
www.capitolindustriesinc.com - (514) 273-0451 -

Genesport Industries Tatamis Ltd
www.genesport.net - (800) 361-6173 -

MARTIN INDUSTRIES
www.martinindustries.ca - (514) 486-4635 -

Dorel Industries Inc
www.dorel.com - (514) 934-3034 -

Transco Plastic Industries
www.transco.net - (514) 733-9951 -


Guaranteed Industries Limited
www.guaranteedindustries.com - (514) 342-3400 -


Industries Poly Inc Les
www.poly.qc.ca - (514) 526-2508 -
http://www.google.ca/images?um=1&hl=en&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=map+of+montreal&aq=f&aqi=g3&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=


http://www.montreal.com/top/index.html

lampoon.wordpress.com
staronetickets.com
gocanada.about.com

Quebec, Canada's largest province, occupies a vast territory (nearly three times the size of France), most of which is very sparsely populated. More than 90 percent of Quebec's area lies within the Canadian Shield, and includes the greater part of the Labrador Peninsula. Quebec's highest mountain is Mont D'Iberville, which is located on the border with Newfoundland and Labrador in the northeastern part of the province in the Torngat Mountains.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081123133842AAwLnjV


Day 1




Today was a good day. I was stuffed. On our way here we stopped at a few gas stations and we got so much beef jerkey. thats basically all my family eats when traveling in cars on raod trips. i thnk thats why my little brother throws up so much when were traveling. My dad just tells my mum he gets car sick because he loves beef jurkey and deosn't want my mum telling us not to eat it anymore. Its liek my dads and brothers favourite food.



This time the city was beautiful. I was familliar with the city considering we come every year. But we haven't been here in a year because now that we are in high school we can't afford to miss two weeks of school. I didn' want top fall behind but my parents insisted on going before school ends so not as many tourists will be there because of school and stuff.




Our hotel was so much better. It was called the Intercontinental hotel. It has a big pool and they had nice big beds. The landscape was beautiful. It had lots of trees and natural things to see. Everybody spoke french and my mommy was pushing me speak it to improve my french laguage.

We got to go to the childrens museum. Inside them there was pictures, money, clothing. foods, and writing of different countries from the world. there was alot of toys and kids running every where. My parents were boared and wanted to leave but we stayed there almost the whole day. There was this resturant that had fake foods in it and we got to pretend to be cheifs and serve people food. I felt like a little kid playing there it was kind of embarrasing but hey i didn't now any one there and there was no kids my age to make fun of me. There were just liitle kids and parents supervising there kids so it was all good!!


At around five my had had enough and left. So my dad had to drag us out of the museum. My little brother cried and my mum asked why and he just siad he wanted beef jurkey. So we all ended up eating beef jurkey and my little brother threw up again my dad said it was the water. He says it differs from St.Kitts and again my mum fell for it and just gave him more beef jurkey. In montreal there was alot of water. At night we went out for icecream at the Plus Que Parfait. The icecream was three dollars. I got a stawberry flavoured one. It was so yummy buti didn't want to know how much calories were in it. :P we then just simply walked around. Saw some small shops bought some earings and neckleces i was planning on buying for my friend in St,kitts. they weren't expensive just a dollar or two so my mum bought alot of them. We walked on the bridge by montreal and in the downtown area but my little bbrother was tired since it was getting late so my parent took us home.

It was about midnight when got I was so happy I got to see they gorgeus view in real life and not in pictures like back in St.Kitts. We all slpet soundly and woke the next day tiered since it was a long night. We got to eat breakfast in the hotel. I went down in my jamies My dad had alot of coffee and so did my mum except she put sugar in hers.

Day 2

We had to get our day started so we showered and got dressed and came downstairs ans soon as possible. We went to the Notre-Dame Basilica.Notre-Dame is noted for its lavish and beautiful interior – stained glass windows, paintings, statues, gold-tipped polychrome carvings, rich altarpiece. It also has a notable Casavant organ and its largest bell, le Gros Bourdon, is the biggest on the continent.
Céline Dion got married at Notre-Dame, it's typically the site of funerals of significant people such as
Pierre Trudeau and Maurice Richard, and classical and choral concerts are held there. There's a son et lumière that tells about the church's history.
Notre-Dame shares Place d'Armes with the
Vieux Séminaire, dating from 1685, the red sandstone New York Life building (1888) – Montreal's first skyscraper – the elegant deco Aldred Building (1931), the imposing Roman-style Bank of Montreal building, and the central monument to de Maisonneuve, founder of the original settlement of Ville-Marie. Place d'Armes is currently undergoing something of a renovation.
Notre-Dame is only one of
many beautiful churches in the city.

Then we went to The Olympic Stadium and environsThe Olympic Stadium was built for Montreal's 1976 Summer Olympics and is used today for some sports events and major concerts. An elevator ascends the world's tallest inclined tower to a lookout on top; tickets are for sale at the base. The stadium is one of Montreal's most curious pieces of architecture and is accompanied by the Biodome (a building originally used for cycle racing during the 1976 games, now a kind of indoor zoo), shown at left above.

Then we came back to the hotel watched some television. We watched reruns of hockey games then fell asleep. Our parents said we have to sleep well because we have a long trip infront of us tomorrow when we go to Régina.



C ya ;)













Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Halifax
Lat: 56 ° 0 'NorthLong: 113 ° 55 '

WestPopualtion: 578,000

Population density: 400 people per square kilometer.

Terrain: There are mountains, forests, hills.

Climate: The average in the winter of -9.7 degrees C in the summer of an average of 22 degrees

Ecozone: Pacific Maritime.

National Park: Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, Gulf Islands National Park Reserve, Yoho National Park, Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve, Glacier National Park and Kootenay National Park.Primary Industries: Lumber and paper products, shipbuilding.

Day 1

We are now currently in Halifax and are unpacking our luggage in to the Halifax Marriott Harbourfront Hotel. the hotel was beautiful! We got a great deal on the hotel since my dad new the owner our nightly rate was 189.00 (CAD)for two days. But I had no time to look around I had to start researching on halifax. Where I was, the weather, places I could go, things I could see population and stuff I might want to know.
So I started I found out that halifax is exactly Latitude = 53.7244, Longitude = -1.8616 on the map. They have 940,917 people not that much but its not much considering Nova Scotia isn't that big. Halifax has an eastern-maritime climate, with a short, warm summer and a cold winter. Disturbed, changeable weather is common throughout the year. We even had a weather channel to update us on the weather so we new what to wear.
My mother says we wont be shopping hear because when we go Edmonton thats all we are going to be doing at the Edmonton Mall.
Then my bother announced that his PSP had died and he was so boared he wanted us to take him thwe best resturant in town "BURGER KING"
My mom rolled her eyes and it made my little brother die of laughter. then my dad came and yelled at everybody to get ready. So all of us quickly and quietly had showered, dressed up and went into the car.
So all of us (well my parents) had decied to go to a nice Italian resturant not to far from the hotel.
I ate a cheese tortillini with chicken and creamy pesto for 21.95. I was so hungery i didn't even notce what everybody else had eaten. After we got desert I got ice cream I told them to put every kind they had to satisfy me and they lady just smiled and walked away and came back with the biggest plate of icecream ever. Me and my brother were so full full we came home and just slept they whole night till ten the next morning and my parents were very impressed. it was so quiet my parents could't sleep beccause they are so used to hearing us talking!

Day 2

The next day was the day to discover halifax. We were all going to get to see the interesting things to see in halifax. We diecided to go to Pier 21. It is a historical site. Over 1.5 million immigrants, war brides, displaced people, evacuee children, and Canadian military personnel passed through this famous building between 1928 and 1971. It is a place where we can see the people that helped build our nation.

We had spent the whole day there seeing exciting stuff. We even had people tour us around and explain about it. After that we went to go eat ice cream my mum was craving seafood since nova scta is famous for there seafood. but we got ice cream i mean they chose the dinner the night before it was our turn to choose what to snack on. <3>



















The start of every road trip



Monday

Hello my name is Alia. I'm fourteen years old and i have two brothers who keep my life pretty interesting. My geography mark hasn't been to well so my dad came up with a crazy idea about traveling across Canada. My mom said she would make write a whole blog on everything I learn to impress Mme. Bourque my geography teacher. Mme. Bourque is a great teacher she so smart and has a wide knowledge of everything so hopefully she'll be pleased that her number one student has taken time to do homework on vacation.

Saturday

Today I didn't set my alarm on purpose, I thought that if I did I would get a couple of extra minutes of sleep. But instead my alarm was my little brother screaming and shoving icecubes down my shirt from my mother. What a perfect morning!!

I went to the bathroom when I remembered the road trip me and my whole family were going on ....

I took a second to remember the last road trip and all I could remember was my little brother thowing up and the sound of my twin brothers PSP. i felt like crying, so I decided to think about the happier parts of the trip like coming home :)

Now its about 12:00 and we are on our way from St.Kitts to Halifax. We have everything we can possibly need water, food, bandaids, music, games, parents, portable DVD player, a watch, a camera, cell phones and a laptop. We stopped at a couple of gas stations for gas, the bathroom and for a couple of fast food resturants. We got a new van so it was really big and i got the back all to myself. I slept threw most of the trip and there was about ten minutes left till we reached our hotel and i couldn't wait to see the inside.


(For mme bourque : kay mme bourue um the stuff i researched after you told me to put the websites. i put them under the information. Bu for the ones i didn't I kinda mixed them there was a whole punch. there was some form the history and some that were I already put and some that I didnt from before so yea there is alot buti want to be happy cuz u were mad cuz the first aprt i didnt do my research roght so i put like every website I could have possibly been to so yea :) )

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www.mytravelguide.com › ... › National ParksCanadaQuebec
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