Unapologetically Canadian Podcast

14/08/2024

Bicycles have been on my mind this month. I'm trying to ride 1000 km to raise money for the Great Cycle Challenge in memory of my mom. One of the photos I used to describe her is of her on her bike with her little brother. The photograph is dated 1956 and there are some unusual elements about the bike, beyond how easily my uncle fits in the basket....

Bicycles have been on my mind this month. I’m trying to ride 1000 km to raise money for the Great Cycle Challenge in memory of my mom. One of the photos I used to describe her is of her on her bike with her little brother. The photograph is dated 1956 and there are some […]

07/02/2024

Some of the most interesting information about my ancestors comes from documents detailing what they ate. The 1686 Acadian Census, for example, shows my ancestor Alexis Doucet at four years old living in Port Royal with his parents and seven brothers and sisters on “5 arpents of cultivable land with 9 cattle, 10 sheep and eight pigs.”1 The census detailed our ancestors’ cattle and livestock along with the cultivated land because those elements were the primary elements of wealth in North America at that time....

My Acadian ancestors ate well by raising cattle, sheep and pigs and by cultivating vegetables on land reclaimed from the Bay of Fundy.

03/02/2024

Les baies de Québec chez

03/02/2024

Les rutabas sont arrivés chez

03/02/2024

Les brocolis sont arrivés!

02/02/2024

Les vins de ont arrivés!

01/02/2024

Le pain frais de est arrivée!

24/01/2024

Update: January 24, 2024 Since this story was originally published, the City of Montreal has added a poster next to Metro Champs de Mars to make it clear that Marie-Josèphe Angélique’s park will be within the Place de Montrealais! Thanks to Annie for letting me know, and thanks for everyone who made sure that her story is not forgotten! Original Story, Dec....

Marie-Josèphe Angélique, the enslaved woman blamed for the fire of 1734, will be remembered within the Place de Montrealais.

24/01/2024

For the first time, I successfully completed the National Novel Writing Month challenge of completing 50,000 words towards a new novel in a month. And before the month was even over! Previous years were not so successful, although I've always felt that it's more than useful to participate in the challenge even when you fail, as I wrote the first time I participated in 2020…...

I successfully completed the National Novel Writing Month challenge of completing 50,000 words towards a new novel in a month. Whoo hoo!

08/12/2023

Les pains sans glutens viennent d'arriver !!

07/12/2023

Livraison par

01/09/2023

Just finished riding 1000 km to raise money for cancer. The challenge ends today, but I believe my page remains open for another month if you didn't get a chance to make a donation and you'd like to. It's at https://greatcyclechallenge.ca/Riders/TraceyArial. Thanks to all the friends and family who donated, offered drinks and gave lots of encouragement and to team mates Melissa A. Simard and Laura Howardyoudo who helped raise the bar on making this month fun. It was super tough but we did it!