Tucked away on the lakefront of Canada’s largest city is the Toronto Music Garden. The park, which opened in 1999, was designed to represent the different elements of Bach’s Suites for Unaccompanied Cello and was a partnership between landscape designer…

(It’s the last day of Island Week 2 here at GSS, which means we’re almost done with posting about islands. And it’s lasted about a week.) Manitoulin Island in Ontario, Canada is officially the world’s largest island that is located…

There’s a nice story on Vanity Fair about how the author, Nick Tosches, spent more than a year attempting to track down the shot location of a desktop picture called Autumn that came with his copy of WIndows. Eventually Nick…

Cockburn Island is a ‘ghost’ island in Ontario, which despite the apparent signs of life (there’s a small town and marina) has an official population of zero. The 1996 census listed a population of just two, but both people had…

Here’s a neat trick – this is a satellite photo of the great lakes, the largest fresh water lakes in the world etc, etc. Now if you click to the great lakes and them zoom in step-by-step you’ll arrive here:…

Quick, somebody fetch Neo, as it would appear that The Matrix is leaking into Canada. Thanks to nousagi and Mark.