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Top places to visit Canada-add to this list fellow Canadians

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23-Feb-2009 09:10
by: geofferyca

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Top places to visit Canada-add to this list fellow Canadians

1. Okay Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Banff, Jasper, Calgary, Ottawa, Quebec City, Halifax are the usual places people think about when they visit Canada. Now that these destinations are out of the way, there are many more wonderful gems to visit in our beautiful country.

2. One of the best places to hike is along the Bruce Trail in Ontario along Georgian Bay. Incredible cliffs to climb and expansive views of Georgian Bay, breathtaking in the fall with the leaves in their brilliant colours. No cost to use the trail, and camping, very cheap along the way. Excellent maps to guide your way. Just google the Bruce pennisula trail.

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I have noticed that Canada does not have that many threads compared to the rest of the world, too bad, because Canada is a very beautiflul, safe, inexpensive and modern country. Any fellow Canadians could add to this list and is not in any particular order.

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23-Feb-2009 12:37
by: MurMan

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Cypress Hills in SE Alberta, SW Saskatchewan ..... you'd never know you were in the prairies ......

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24-Feb-2009 02:36
by: Ogie_Ogilthorpe

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"I have noticed that Canada does not have that many threads compared to the rest of the world, too bad"

I'm not Canadian but I'd view that as a good thing. I suppose the money would be nice but careful what you wish for.

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24-Feb-2009 02:39
by: lotuslanding

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Gaspesie!

I absolutely think the Gaspesie peninsula is so underrated (or unknown?). When we traveled there, we rarely saw any license plates from anywhere other than Quebec, but it was an astonishingly beautiful, unique, easy place to travel. The landscape is almost a more dramatic, rugged version of Cape Breton, with fewer RVs and tourists. The towns and villages offer plenty of opportunities to buy fresh bread, local cheeses, and delicious coffee. I have to admit that we also hadn't known much about Gaspesie, and ended up there almost by accident, but it was the highlight of our trip around the Maritimes, and I've been raving about it to everyone I can since...but I have yet to hear of anyone going. So here's my post...I hope it inspires someone to take the out-of-the-way off-the-beaten-path trip to one of the most beautiful spots in CA that I've visited.

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24-Feb-2009 03:24
by: tarotreader3

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Victoria Harbour
the Badlands in Calgary
The Rain Forest on Vancouver Island
Huntsville Ontario
Moraine Lake (Icefields Parkway)
Winnipeg
Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump
PEI is beautiful
Lunenburg (UNESCO site where the Blue Nose II moors up.)

... this list could go on forever, but i'll stop it here.

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24-Feb-2009 03:24
by: tarotreader3

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ohh wait - I'll also throw down Newfoundland (it's the most beautiful place in the country, hands down.)

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24-Feb-2009 04:47
by: thoughtpolice

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Nahanni NP, NWT
Tombstone Valley, Yukon
Stewart BC area.

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24-Feb-2009 05:05
by: roremc

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For skiers which there are plenty of at this time of the year I would say Revelstoke. Awesome. No crowds, good snow. Most vertical in North America and loads of different terrain as long as your not a beginner.

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24-Feb-2009 05:09
by: JRS

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Lunenburg, Nova Scotia = my town. Its lovely.
PEI, the whole place is beautiful, but only in spring, summer, and a very little bit of the fall.

tarotreader3; You website/blogspot is good and well put together. Just one question, do you work for the "Departures" show, or are you friends with the hosts of that show? You went on and on about it so much. Does the show really inspire you, or are you just doing some advertising/promoting for them? (I do enjoy the show too)

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24-Feb-2009 08:27
by: gcanuck

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Gulf Islands, BC

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24-Feb-2009 10:12
by: mikeinmagog

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I will second the Red Deer River Badlands near Drumheller, Alberta. Great for canoeing or rafting. World-class paleontology museum there, too.

The Eastern Townships region of Quebec gets under-recommended outside the province. The small mountain region centered near Lac Memphremagog offers a wealth of cold-weather pastimes in winter and is like a little Provence during summer, with market farms on winding roads selling cheeses, ciders, fresh-grown fruits and vegetables. Many lakes around for swimming and boating.

One might consider also the Kootenays of Southeastern British Columbia.

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24-Feb-2009 10:46
by: detroitjim

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Maybe it would get pushed out of the top ten list , but it will certainly be in the top 25.

Quetico Provincial Park

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24-Feb-2009 11:40
by: wollersheim

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Close to my home town is Writing On Stone Provincial Park in Southern Alberta and my vote for one of the best places to visit in Canada.

One other thing that I am a bit amazed about is, that from the 11 previous posts, 4 of places are on the praires, an area of Canad that is put down a whole lot on this board. Especially in response to posts about travelling across Canada. It is really not so bad.

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24-Feb-2009 12:34
by: living

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In north-western BC the BC town of Stewart adjoins the US town of Hyder. Go through the border crossing to Hyder then about 10 km up the road past Fish Creek, you will come on a sign that says, "Welcome to BC". Keep going another 10 km or so. Very few people do. The road is gravel and in parts its rough but entirely doable in a 2WD. You will be driving into the most astonishing wilderness. The road hugs the mountainside, overlooking ancient glaciers calving into lakes below. It's a wonderful place, period.

In that same part of the world, take the Stewart Cassiar Hwy north from Prince Rupert till you get to Dease Lake where you hang a left (west) to Telegraph Creek in the Stikine River Valley. Some call it BC's Grand Canyon. That's a tad overstating it, but beautiful and wild and isolated it is for sure. Some 97 km down a road of intensely steep grades and tracks hanging off the sides of the canyon you come to Telegraph Creek itself - a quaint and funky little community with a great B&B and cafe.

In BC's Kootenay region my vote goe to Kaslo, another funky little town with the world's best coffee and fresh cinnamon buns. I love that whole Arrow Lakes / Slocan Lake loop that Hwy 6 makes through there - all great small towns and plenty of places to camp on the lakefront.

Icefields Parkway from Lake Louise to Jasper is a given - one the best mountain drives in the world. Have done it numerous times in the summer but one March we had cabin fever and a new 4WD so did it in the snow - more than spectacular.

In the east I love both Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland. PEI in the summer has to be the "prettiest" place in the world with its flower banked red earth roads, green meadows sloping into turquoise seas, gingerbread houses, lobster-trap-laden fishboats. Just so pretty. Newfoundland is the exact opposite - rugged and passionate and burly and gnarly and heartbreakingly raw.

What am I forgetting? Oh, so many places - the cafes in Montreal, the smoked meat in Ottawa, Rennell Sound at the end of a long logging road in the Queen Charlotte Islands; Atlin - home of the world's greatest music festival so far north in BC you have to approach it through the Yukon. Or what about Whitehorse in the Yukon or the Dempster Hwy through the Northwest Territories to Inuvik. Sitting in the hills watching the sun go down over Kamloops or a campfire crackling in a provincial campground ANYWHERE in Canada.

There is NO end to the wonderful places.

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24-Feb-2009 14:37
by: psgeorge79

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Thanks all. I've just moved to Canada (Calgary) and needed a list of places to visit in the spring/summer.

This lot will keep me busy for a few years...........

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