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How do you experience architecture if you can't see it? In Part 2 of my conversation with Alex Bulmer, we…

Seen any interesting buildings lately? What if you literally couldn’t see them? What if you could only experience buildings through…

By Peter Coffman It’s hard to find two towns in Canada further apart than Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, and Dawson City,…

The Tr’ondek Hwech’in fishing camp of Tr'ochëk once stood on the flat land in the left middle-ground, where the Yukon…

By Peter Coffman Imagine a stream cascading down a mountain, winding through a lush forest of evergreen and deciduous trees,…

Dawson City and the Yukon River. By Peter Coffman During his one and only Klondike winter, writer Jack London (of…

Dawson City, Yukon. By Peter Coffman If I say “Dawson City”, you may think “Gold Rush! Canada’s wild west! The…

St. Anne's Church, Toronto, by Ford Howland (1907). By Peter Coffman I don’t enjoy writing eulogies, and I don’t think…

The Red Brick School, Elgin, Ontario, from the south-east. By Peter Coffman We live in a time when education seems…

(This blog resumes a discussion of 24 Sussex Drive begun here and continued here.) What if, in spite of all…

Last week, I examined the strange (and untenable) claim that 24 Sussex Drive was not a historically important building. Another…

24 Sussex Drive, the currently unused (and semi-derelict) official residence of the Prime Minister of Canada, has been in the…