Left Coast Mumblings by Colin T. Paterson

  In our living room on Harvard Avenue in Montreal in the 1950s there was a dark rectangular veneered coffee table. On it sat a brass be...

We picked up our new golden retriever puppy 3 weeks ago. He was born on August 15th, the day before our golden retriever Copper died. We are...

Planting trees is probably the hardest thing I ever did for a buck in my life. It is totally exhausting. In the early 1970s I made an atte...

Monkland Ave. between Wilson and Harvard. Note the streetcar tracks. Late 40s or early 50s. One of the main thoroughfares in the dist...

      When I was a kid growing up in Montreal we would occasionally have hot dogs at home for a meal. My mother always boiled the w...

There is a little town on Vancouver Island about a 45 minute drive north of Nanaimo called Bowser. Not a lot goes on there. Many of the pe...