Canadian Travel
Canada offers a vast land of sweeping vistas, rugged landscapes, fascinating cultures, and sophisticated cities. From the urban landscapes of Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal to the soaring mountains, clear cold rivers, and awe-inspiring light show of the Aurora Borealis in the north, Canada is a land of contrasts. It is also a land of delicious authentic foods.
Here, we bring you stories about Canada's cuisine, her opportunities for adventure, her great places to stay, and her lovely people.
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Dog Sledding in Qutaouais, Quebec: Don’t Trust Red-headed Strangers and Other Life Lessons
Dog sledding in the Outaouais region of Quebec proves both thrilling, bruising, and a bit funny for our intrepid editor.
Castle Mountain, Alberta: Skier Heaven
Knee-deep powder, no lift lines, pristine ski runs — what’s not to love at Alberta’s Castle Mountain.
Sun Peaks Wine Festival: Wine Wisdom and Powder Skiing
Sun Peaks Wine Festival in British Columbia offers terrific wine seminars and perfect skiing conditions.
A Chinese Food Marathon in Richmond, BC
With Asian stores and shopping malls and Chinese food that rivals any you’ll find outside of China, Richmond, B.C. is Canada’s Asian capital.
Tla-ook Tours, Tofino, BC: A Passage Through Time
The day dawns grey, sea and sky pewter, as the big canoe slips easily through the water. We are in Tofino on British Columbia’s Vancouver Island with Gisele Martin, a First Nations guide and co-owner of Tla-ook Cultural Tours.
Jacques Legros: Quebec’s Father Goose
At A Taste of Yesterday (Au goût d’autrefois) Farm and Restaurant on bucolic Orleans Island just outside Quebec City, Jacques Legros produces some of the best, humanely-raised foie gras in Canada.
Orleans Island: Quebec City’s Authentic “Pantry”
Imagine giant cranberries the size of nickels, intensely-flavored black currant liquor, silky sweet apple syrup, and rich foie gras produced from happy geese. This is just a fraction of the culinary bounty that comes from Île d’Orléans (Orleans Island), Quebec.
A Passion for Roses: a Tasty Business
At Rose des Champs, a garden filled with 2000 rosebushes that’s located on a hillside in the green rolling hills of the Eastern Townships of Quebec, it’s all about roses – their beauty, their history, their fragrance, and, yes, even their taste.
A Taste of the Garden
At Maritime Quebec’s Reford Garden (Mont Joli Jarden de Métis), it’s all about the flowers – growing them, cooking with them, eating them.
A Voyage into History
It was 2:00 a.m. on May 29, 1914 and the fog off Pointe-au-Père, Quebec, had settled like a thick woolen blanket over the St. Lawrence River. The mate on lookout aboard the RMS Empress of Ireland scanned the murky water, straining to see through the gauzy haze. Suddenly it was there, a ship steaming directly toward them on a collision course…
Swimming — and Making Friends — with the Belugas
Face down in the 42 degree water of Churchill River off Hudson Bay in arctic Canada, I’ve got company — a 16 foot, stark white beluga whale is staring at me, sly little grin on his face. I stare back and squeak into my snorkel.
Yukon Quest: The Toughest Sled Dog Race in the World
Its -15 Celsius (about 8 Fahrenheit) and the sled dogs are happy. This crisp weather is just how they like it to run the Yukon Quest, a grueling 1,000-mile race from Whitehorse, Yukon to Fairbanks, Alaska.
