New Brunswick
Parks Canada /
Parcs Canada
Parcs Canada
Gram & Gramp
Walking Sticks
More with Les
100
Formed over thousands of years, these "containers" have names such as Elephant, Bear, Dinosaur, ET, and even Mother-in-Law.
What are the Hopewell Rocks? Flowerpots
100
In 1961, a young engineer flew to Calgary then took a train to Banff, where a friend drove him the rest of the way to this BC town...
What is Field?
100
Belle & Bob Mathie introduced a young teacher from Okotoks and a new engineer from New Brunswick in this mountain town...
What is Banff?
100
$250... the maximum fine for doing this in an Alberta Provincial Park...
What is taking wood?
100
Fore!!! NOT Gramp's usual score at this location, south of Calgary...
What is Turner Valley Golf & CC?
200
The largest of this phenomenon in the world, it rises and falls 12-16m... twice a day...
What is the Fundy Tide?
200
Gramp & Carolyn used a 105mm Howitzer cannon to help keep Rogers Pass safe from avalanches in this mountain park...
What is Glacier National Park?
200
The year Gram & Gramp got married... also the year Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton tied the knot (for the first time)...
What is 1964?
200
This northern boreal resident is named for it's distinctive wood pattern, caused by a fungus...
What is Diamond Willow?
200
The 3rd of four, these are Gramp's older & younger siblings...
Who are Uncle Bus (Barry), Uncle Bill, Auntie Carol?
300
Homaris Americanus... Also one of Gramp's favourite NB marine residents...
What is a lobster?
300
In 1964 Gramp travelled to this European city/county to scout Olympic facilities for Banff's 1968 bid...
What is Innsbruck, Austria?
300
Gram & Gramp walked their way across this south central region of this European country...
What is England?
300
The second largest urban park in Canada, and Gramp's "secret stash"...
What is Fish Creek Provincial Park?
300
Gramp wasn't always destined to be a Civil Engineer, his scholastic journey actually started in this discipline...
What is Mining Engineering?
400
CaSO4 ... Plentiful around Gramp's hometown, homebuilders know it better as the main ingredient in drywall
What is Gypsum?
400
Gramp wasn't given the key to this Territory city, but he did manage to "borrow" the doorknob to the local church...
What is Dawson City, Yukon?
400
This "leafy" street was the location of Gram & Gramp's first house purchase...
What is Willow Park Drive?
400
Gramp's walking sticks were EXCLUSIVELY available at this historic shop...
What is the Banff Trading Post?
400
Gramp played many sports growing up including hockey and baseball, but definitely "loved" this individual effort...
What is Tennis?
500
Originally established around 1700 as "Blanchard's Village" by Acadian farmers, its first permanent settlers would arrive here 60 years later including Heinrich "Steeves"... the first of many
What is Hillsborough?
500
The birthplace of Canada's National Parks, Gramp was invited to it's grand re-opening on the 100th anniversary of Parks Canada for his role in it's restoration...
What is the Cave & Basin?
500
The three dogs (name & breed) that Gramp & Gramp owned together...
What are;
- Peppi (Poodle)
- Muffin (Poodle)
- Daisy (Shitzu/Bijon)
500
Gramp loved the flexibility of this company's tools, developed in 1932 by an Austrian in Racine, WI...
What is Dremel?
500
This "giant" tale was B & C's favourite bedtime story with Gramp...
What is Jack & the Beanstalk?