Tim Giese of the Cochrane Environmental Action Committee travelled to little Rogersville, near Miramichi, NB, to experience the total eclipise on April 8.
The weather was gorgeous with barely a cloud in the sky.
“It was quite the experience with the light dimming slowly until about 95 per cent coverage and then as the eclipse moved to totality watching a ‘wall’ of darkened sky zoom in from the west," he said. "While the sky above us was dark all around us on the horizon a sky like a sunset or sunrise. Venus and Jupiter were clearly visible.”
Meanwhile in Southern, Alberta, people were treated to a partial solar eclipse when the moon passed in front of the sun for a few hours.
In southern Alberta, including Rocky View County and Cochrane, the partial eclipse started at 11:47 a.m., reached its maximum at 12:42 p.m. and finished at 1:39 p.m.