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Castor’s Letters

“I travel small Canadian towns. The kind most people drive past. I send a letter every Monday about what I notice.”

PEOPLE of small towns

The people who put small towns on the map

Olympic champions, literary legends, artists, and trailblazers — all from towns you can visit today

Dutch Mason | ‘Prime Minister of the Blues’
📍 Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
Dutch Mason | ‘Prime Minister of the Blues’
From Lunenburg, Nova Scotia Kentville, Nova Scotia Truro, Nova Scotia Dutch (b Norman) Mason was a blues singer from Nova Scotia. Mason was appointed the…
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Robert-Ralph Carmichael | Loonie Creator
📍 Echo Bay, Ontario
Robert-Ralph Carmichael | Loonie Creator
From Echo Bay, Ontario The northern Ontario artist who painted a loon at his studio in the Sylvan Valley — and watched it become the…
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Izaak Walton Killam | 1950s’ Richest Canadian
📍 Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
Izaak Walton Killam | 1950s’ Richest Canadian
From Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Izaak Walton Killam was one of Canada’s most eminent financiers. He was known as “the mystery man” of Canadian finance because…
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Jim Carrey | Comedian
📍 Georgina, Ontario
Jim Carrey | Comedian
From Newmarket, Aldershot, Georgina, Ontario James Eugene “Jim” Carrey is a Canadian-American actor, comedian, impressionist, screenwriter, and producer. He is known for his highly energetic…
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Ron Joyce | Tim Hortons Co-Founder
📍 Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia
Ron Joyce | Tim Hortons Co-Founder
From: Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia Ronald V. Joyce is best known as the entrepreneur who, in 1964, invested in the first Tim Hortons donut shop in…
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Joni Mitchell | Songwriter
📍 Fort Macleod, Alberta
Joni Mitchell | Songwriter
Grew up in Fort Macleod before becoming an iconic singer-songwriter of the 20th century — and never forgot the prairie town that shaped her.
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The trips you can't plan from a search engine. One painter's Ontario. A waterway traced lock by lock. The birthplace of Cirque du Soleil. Curated Canadian stories, mapped for the modern road-tripper — with interactive routes, stop-by-stop plans, and the places search engines miss.

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Cirque du Soleil’s Quebec
The places that painted Canada’s landscape painter — Claremont to Canoe Lake, one small town at a time.

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Trent-Severn Waterway
A lock-by-lock guide to Ontario’s 386 km National Historic waterway — by boat, or visited town-by-town by car.

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Tom Thomson’s Ontario
The places that painted Canada’s landscape painter — Claremont to Canoe Lake, one small town at a time.

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