Tag Archives: Bringing the General Home
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Home at last
Accompanied by the skirl of a piper and a crowd of more than a thousand cheering people, mainly students hooting and clanging bells, the striking bronze sculpture of Maj.-Gen. Sir Isaac Brock (…) Continue reading
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The General has landed
He’s home. Late Sunday afternoon, a truck pulled into St. Catharines bearing the double-life-sized bronze sculpture of Maj.-Gen. Sir Isaac Brock. The General — all 1.5 metric tons of him — is getting (…) Continue reading
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Dodging those pesky overpasses
DEFIANCE, Ohio — Rather than take a direct route toward a Canada-US border crossing, The General has been getting off the big US highways to check out towns like Napoleon, Ohio; Fort Wayne, (…) Continue reading
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Day 5: into the Great Lakes basin
Heading toward Davenport, Iowa this morning, then on to Chicago and points east. After that we’ll go through the upper reach of Indiana, but then have to do a bit of strategic (…) Continue reading
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Day 4: half way home
Think Nebraska and it’s likely one of the following come to mind (a) corn; (b) college football (they seem to perennially be in one bowl game or another); (c) the Springsteen album; (…) Continue reading
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Love it or leave it
There’s something about American culture that Canadians — heck, people all over the world — find absolutely compelling. The USA is Canada’s biggest and most important ally, and not just because of (…) Continue reading
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The General battles the wind of the plains
The sculpture of Maj.-Gen Sir Isaac Brock pulled into North Platte, Nebraska by Thursday night, knocking off another 930 kilometres of his ride home, even as the Great Plains wind lived up (…) Continue reading
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Under big skies, The General keeps moving
EVANSTON, Wyoming — Even a general has to obey the law. The large bronze sculpture of Maj.-Gen. Sir Isaac Brock started the day’s travels pulling into an Oregon truck stop, where driver (…) Continue reading
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A gritty western town gives birth to beautiful art
In sparsely-populated eastern Oregon, the town of Joseph, pop. 1,054, is the end of the line. To get there from the I-84, drive 100 kilometres along the Wallowa River, past occasional cattle and (…) Continue reading