CALGARY In the world of mechanical tower clocks, it’s considered good form if you can keep a clock running within three minutes per month. The clock at Calgary s historic city hall is currently running within less than one minute per month. That’s great news for Eric Brolund, the project manager for the rehabilitation of historic city hall. Brolund has become somewhat of an expert on the large timepiece. That’s because there are only a handful of experts in the world who know how to repair them and the specialist the city used is in his 70s and lives in New York.
With around 250 parks to go through, they decided to try going to a few parks each time, with the hope of going to all of them before the end of 2020.
Thanks to Vancouver’s biking paths, the couple often managed to visit more than a dozen parks on a single ride, bringing them closer to their goal.
Smethurst also created a Google map of all the parks of the city, which allowed him to check every time he had to leave the house and pick up something to see if there were any parks nearby.
Each trip outside of the house, regardless of its purpose, became a part of their project.
The Canadian Island with Irish accents
A trip to Fogo Island off Newfoundland will leave you thinking that you haven t left Ireland at all.
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Did you know that an island off Newfoundland in Canada is home to one of the most authentic Irish accents in the world?Â
More than 3,000 kilometers separate Fogo Island, the largest of Newfoundland and Labrador s offshore islands, and the island of Ireland, but the small island is probably the most Irish island in the world outside of Ireland.Â
Boasting a population of just 2,706 in 2016, Fogo Island has a long and storied connection with Ireland, with the first Irish settlers arriving on the island in the mid-18th century, long before the Great Hunger spawned widespread emigration to Canada.Â