This is a censored post related to the novel TETHERED by Vaughn Ashby. If you want to learn more about how this post relates to the Aurora Wasteland you’ll just…

A limnic eruption, also referred to as a lake overturn, is a rare type of natural disaster in which dissolved carbon dioxide (CO2) suddenly erupts from deep lake waters, forming…

The major attraction on the ice field parkway between Jasper and Banff is the Athabasca Glacier, known locally as the Columbia Ice Fields. The Athabasca Glacier is actually only one of the six principal ‘toes’ of…

The Tunguska event was a large explosion that occurred near the Stony Tunguska River, in Yeniseysk Governorate, Russia, on the morning of 30 June 1908. The explosion over the sparsely populated Eastern Siberian Taiga flattened 2,000 km2 of forest yet…

Blue River is a small community in British Columbia, situated on British Columbia Highway 5 about halfway between Kamloops and Jasper, Alberta, located at the confluence of the Blue and…

The Athabasca “oil sands” or “tar sands” are large deposits of bitumen or extremely heavy crude oil, located in northeastern Alberta. In early 1848 the oil sands expeditions expanded to…

In 2014 the Potomac Tower in Vancouver, BC was slated to be completed. Construction finished four months after the scheduled completion date because of fog & rain delays during the…

Cadomin Cave is located within Leyland Mountain at an elevation of 1890m, and was formed within the thickly bedded limestones of the Palliser Formation. The cave consists of an upper…

The Edmonton Corn Maze is a popular attraction west of Edmonton, Alberta. It is a giant maze cut into a field of corn approximately 15 acres (61,000 m2). It is…

The Pembina Valley Railway grew out of pressure placed on the Government of Alberta by early settlers of the area between present day Busby and Fort Assiniboine. In the early…