(Port) Coquitlam Odysseus

The Bell Tower at the University of Toronto–scroll down for many thumbnails This post is dedicated to all my friends and loved ones, and to my favourite city in the world: Toronto. This is the fifth and final post in my series on my Washington DC-Toronto trip. A real highlight for me of that trip [...]

This little plain jewel of a church–originally an Anglican church, in fact–is the closest thing I have to a spiritual home, for it was here that I converted to Roman Catholicism just a year or so before I would permanently apostatize. Ironically, my conversion is something I do not regret. A lot of this lack [...]

Hiding inside typical Torontonian red bricks, St. Thomas’s on the secluded Huron Street is one of Toronto’s best kept secrets. “Smoky Tom’s,” as it is affectionately known to many, on account of the thick incense in the air, is, along with “St. Mary Mag’s,” one of the two very High Anglican churches in the city. [...]

St. Mary’s on Bathurst and Adelaide–scroll down for the other thumbnail photographs This post is dedicated to my wonderful friend Brian Mullins. This is the second of several posts on the Toronto half of my Washington DC-Toronto trip, and shows one of my most favourite churches. As the picture above reveals, this historic church–which nowadays [...]

CN Tower in the evening–scroll down for the thumbnails This post is dedicated to my wonderful friends Brian and Ian, both of whom I met in Toronto back in 2000. This is the first of several posts on the Toronto half of my Washington-DC Toronto trip. While in Toronto, I was delighted to have the [...]

Ginevra de’ Benci, by Leonardo da Vinci This post is dedicated to Lee, a gentleman, scholar, friend, and museum lover. This post, the fourth and final post of my pictorial updates from the Washington DC half of my Toronto-Washington DC trip, concerns the National Gallery of Art. My host and friend, Lee, very kindly and [...]

The Capitol; scroll below for all the thumbnail pictures This third of four posts on the Washington DC half of my Toronto-Washington DC trip shows a few of the most important places along the “National Mall.” This is a very broad area, lined with building after building–Smithsonian museums, all. Alas, the time of day and [...]

Subway Station in Washington DC This is the second post from my Washington DC-Toronto trip; two more on the DC half of the trip will follow: the first will cover the gigantic monuments along the National Mall, and the second the National Gallery of Art. There will also be several posts from my time in [...]

National Cathedral in Washington DC–scroll down for all the thumbnails. This post is dedicated to two inspiring friends: Kevin (warning: R-rated blog!), who is from the general area DC is in and who has a strong interest in inter-religious dialogue, and Lee, who lives there now. (Note: This is the first of several photoblogging posts [...]

Canadian Penny The CBC has a very good feature article on the government’s possible intentions of doing away with the penny. The article points out that the Dominion of Canada had never minted coins of less value than one cent. (Note: there are colonial half-cent “semi-regal” issues and half-penny legal-tender bank tokens.) With inflation factored [...]