Footloose: Canada’s Abandoned Bata Shoe Factory
The former Bata shoe factory in "Batawa" – a company town located in southern Ontario – forged fine footwear for footloose Canucks from 1939 to the year 2000. Kickoff The Bata Shoe ...
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New Network of Ice Age Caves Found Beneath the Streets of Montreal
Manually chipping away at rock for hours, two cave explorers have discovered a massive, previously unknown system of prehistoric caves beneath the streets of Montreal. Estimated to be around ...
Angling for Warmth in Winter: 21 Ice Fishing Hut Designs
Not just cold comfort, these portable shacks designed to be towed out onto frozen lakes come in a variety of forms, from the practical and resourceful to the funny and artistic. These ice ...
Trail Blazing: ‘Freezeway’ Path for Ice Skaters Opens in Canada
The new Freezeway pilot project now live in Edmonton aims to draw residents out of hibernation, encouraging them to skate along an iced trail system slated to double as a seven-mile commuting ...
Floating Island: Self-Sufficient Home Produces Food & Power
Powered by solar panels and sustained by a half-acre plot of farmland, these 12 connected buoyant platforms together form an autonomous off-the-grid dwelling for the couple that built ...
From the Dead: Businessman Resurrecting Canadian Ghost Town
Built in the late 1970s, this mining village housed 1,200 people at its peak and was left effectively intact for over twenty years before being sold as a whole for $5,000,000 to an entrepreneur ...
Dirty Camp 30: Canadian POW Camp Battles Neglect & Decay
Camp 30, located east of Toronto, was one of Canada's main World War II POW camps and although named a National Historic Site, continues to be neglected. ...
Clever Land Artist Copyrighted Earth to Beat an Oil Pipeline
Canadian land artist and sculptor Peter von Tiesenhausen occupies a stretch of land in Alberta covered with his artworks, but it was not until he turned the top six layers of the soil on his 800 ...
Hanging Hotel: Camp in a Trunk-Friendly Tree House Retreat
Without harming the forest that supports it, this streamlined tree house design is stabilized by a central trunk but ultimately suspended from the branches above to minimize negative ...
Great Blight North: 7 Abandoned Wonders of Canada
Canada's abandoned wonders include greying neoclassical banks in downtown Toronto, forgotten asylums, beautiful Beaux Arts hydro power stations and a ghost town so eerily well-preserved it feels ...
