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Not the mountains, not the prairies. In supplement one for Salt Lake City, I introduced the term physiography and it’s going to be useful again as I write about Calgary and the nearby area. Technically, you can find three of …

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The Winter Games Finally come to Canada. If you’ve read the Lillehammer tales, you already encountered two stories from the Calgary Olympics – the tragedy of Dan Jansen and the triumph of Bonnie Blair. Fortunately, there was more to the …

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It’s probably fair to say that I visited Calgary as something of an accidental tourist. In the introductory post to this series I mentioned the irony that my old expired passport has more entry visa stamps from Germany than any …