Canadians in Portugal

Hockey's place in Canadian culture is closer to religion than a simple sporting pastime; a unifying force in a country of 33 million peo...

Truly as it always was, your neighbour was your goalie or our goal scorer, but nobody was ever a defensemen. No glamour in defending. It was...

There are those who play and there are those who just like to watch. Here in Portugal we are limited to watching and even that's recent ...

Who among us growing up in Canada didn't grow up on road hockey? Who among us didn't pretend we were 'Rocket' Richard, Guy L...

The term "pond hockey" is often used, especially in Canada, as a synonym to Shinny . It is meant to describe any form of disorgani...

It’s one of those beautifully frigid winter nights that inspire poets. The skies are clear and the light from the moon illuminates the backy...

I recently came across a book called Going Top Shelf An Anthology of Canadian Hockey Poetry edited by Michael P. J Kennedy, a university pr...

For those Portuguese-Canadians who hail from the province of British Columbia, the name Terry Costa is one a lot of people got to know over ...

And yet another year comes to a close, one that was undoubtedly full of great music coming out of the Great White North, aka Canada. And so ...

Today is Boxing Day in pretty much all countries that were once, or still are, part of the British Empire. In Portugal, nobody has faintest ...

Well Christmas is fast approaching and with that, here's our Christmas post with all kinds of interesting facts about Christmas and abou...

As I mentioned before on this blog and on the Facebook page as well, as part of my research on Luso-descendant returnees, I recently put tog...