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"Roads and highways in the Yukon, including the Alaska Highway are subject to delays and possible closures due to forest fires {in summer and due to winter conditions in winter}. Travelers should check with their nearest Visitor Information Centre or tourism outlet and listen to local radio for updated information. For updated information on highway closures, call 1-867-667-3710 or 1-877-456-7623.
Get a map or use Mapquest. Distances in Western Canada are deceiving. Road travel can involve crossing water on a ferry or driving in mountainous areas. Many visitors to Vancouver want to see Victoria and return to Vancouver for dinner. In reality, it's a minimum three and a half hour trip each way by road/ferry - on a good day. In many areas highways can be one lane in each direction with few passing opportunities. Your average speed could be far below the posted limit. And high mountain passes can experience winter conditions at any time of the year.
Here are some sites that I used a lot while looking for work and accomodation. I thoguht it might save some people some time searching - most of the other stuff apart from these sites out there are junk.
Work:
JobBoom
Monster Canada
Job Bank Canada
Accommodation
Sublet.com - You have to pay to register, but its well worth it.
McGill University Classifieds - Best source for second hand furniture, rent, tv/audio equipment.
Hope this helps someone!
Edited by: Zabba
A webcam for those wondering what the weather is like around town:
Telemark (Kat Kam) - scroll down a bit and you'll get a nice view of the Burrard Street Bridge from the (downtown's) West End
Enjoy!
Edited by: Zabba
Polynya Arctic Adventures is a tour company based out of Iqaluit, Nunavut. The arctic is NOT a place that you can easily wander off into the wilderness without a fair bit of experience and equipment, although you can certainly do somethings readily enough.
The link offers a fair bit of information that may help you in planning, and in dreaming.
Edited by: Zabba
In addition to the national carriers you'll know about, there are two alternatives...
Return fares from various UK airports can be found for under £200
Canadian Affair
...who sell seats on charters operated by Thomas Cook and MyTravel Airlines. Download the pdf brochures on Canadian Affair's website and check which route/aircraft you're flying - Boeing 757 flights out of MAN have over 36" of legroom in economy (which you have to pay a premium for even on Zoom) - sometimes for half the price of an equivilent route in Air Canada/BMI/British Airways economy.
j
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This question about a visitor to BC buying a car, has been asked a few times, and here is the official answer from ICBC. (Insurance Corporation of British Columbia)
The e-mail address to find out if you can qualify is feedback@icbc.com
The maximum time is 3 Months.
You will need a mailing address, (a friends address is preferable but a post office box maybe excepted) not the address on your driving licence.
Provincial Tourism Website
Cities
Saint John
Moncton
Cool Festivals
Hot Air Balloons, Sep 9-11, Sussex
Fundy National Park
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Tourism website (in 6 languages): bonjourquebec
Cool festivals, among the hundreds taking place every year:
Quebec City Summer Fest - bilingual site
Montreal Jazz Festival - officially the world's biggest (Guinness book of records) - bilingual site
Drummondville's Mondial des cultures - dancers from around the world (Drummondville is located halfway between Montreal and Quebec City, on Hwy 20, south shore of the river
What's going' on in Montreal - clickable yearly calendar for access to events - bilingual site
Montreal's GREAT Youth Hostel
Map of Montreal's subway
Note that you may transfer from subway to bus or the opposite within 1 1/2 hour without paying a 2nd time - just ask for a transfer.
Need to know which bus to take or bus schedule in Montreal or Greater Montreal ? Call : A-U-T-O-B-U-S for free, bilingual answer
Kaleidoscope offers guided walking tours in Montreal (site in French - visits in English possible for groups only)
Guidatour offers walking tours also. Bilingual site, links
B&B networks in Montreal:
here and this one is focused on Platreau Mont-Royal's area - bilingual sites
Quebec City:
Official Tourism and Convention site - bilingual site
Tourism and Travel Guide - bilingual, plenty of links
Great city guide here - bilingual, plenty of links, pics, maps, road conditions, etc
Ferry between Quebec City and Levis - bilingual - schedule, pic, basic map
Weather:
Quebec City
for everywhere in Canada - bilingual; clickable map
Daily pic of sunset from Kamouraska, and Le Bic areas (bilingual, but who cares when it comes to pics ?)
Enjoy your stay here (and, for the posterity: we DO like foreigners, as long as they don't make a career out of "Quebec Bashing" ... )
Saskja
Edited by: Zabba
-One way to cut back on costs during the summer in Montreal is to stay at the McGill University Residence Halls.. The program is not online, but a call ahead to Douglas Hall (follow link) will do the trick. The program runs from May to August, and costs approximately $45 CAD for a student and $50 CAD for a non-student. You get a single room with towels and bed linens, shared bathroom, free internet access (both in-room hookup and downstairs computer lab) and free continental (dining-hall) breakfast. The halls are all located at the top of Mont Royal, which is a very short (albeit all-downhill) walk to centre ville and Rue Ste-Catherine.
-The Montreal Youth Hostel is another option. It is a member of Hostelling International.
-You can often get very nice hotel rooms last-minute on Priceline.. I once paid $70 USD for an enormous room with a balcony at the Delta Montreal, a hotel which is otherwise upwards of $179 CAD per night.
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Yukon road conditions"Roads and highways in the Yukon, including the Alaska Highway are subject to delays and possible closures due to forest fires {in summer and due to winter conditions in winter}. Travelers should check with their nearest Visitor Information Centre or tourism outlet and listen to local radio for updated information. For updated information on highway closures, call 1-867-667-3710 or 1-877-456-7623.
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For #3. British Columbia.Get a map or use Mapquest. Distances in Western Canada are deceiving. Road travel can involve crossing water on a ferry or driving in mountainous areas. Many visitors to Vancouver want to see Victoria and return to Vancouver for dinner. In reality, it's a minimum three and a half hour trip each way by road/ferry - on a good day. In many areas highways can be one lane in each direction with few passing opportunities. Your average speed could be far below the posted limit. And high mountain passes can experience winter conditions at any time of the year.
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For those settling in Montreal (Working Holiday for example):Here are some sites that I used a lot while looking for work and accomodation. I thoguht it might save some people some time searching - most of the other stuff apart from these sites out there are junk.
Work:
JobBoom
Monster Canada
Job Bank Canada
Accommodation
Sublet.com - You have to pay to register, but its well worth it.
McGill University Classifieds - Best source for second hand furniture, rent, tv/audio equipment.
Hope this helps someone!
Edited by: Zabba
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V A N C O U V E RA webcam for those wondering what the weather is like around town:
Telemark (Kat Kam) - scroll down a bit and you'll get a nice view of the Burrard Street Bridge from the (downtown's) West End
Enjoy!
Edited by: Zabba
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Also NunavutPolynya Arctic Adventures is a tour company based out of Iqaluit, Nunavut. The arctic is NOT a place that you can easily wander off into the wilderness without a fair bit of experience and equipment, although you can certainly do somethings readily enough.
The link offers a fair bit of information that may help you in planning, and in dreaming.
Edited by: Zabba
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LOW-COST FLIGHTS FROM UKIn addition to the national carriers you'll know about, there are two alternatives...
Return fares from various UK airports can be found for under £200
Canadian Affair
...who sell seats on charters operated by Thomas Cook and MyTravel Airlines. Download the pdf brochures on Canadian Affair's website and check which route/aircraft you're flying - Boeing 757 flights out of MAN have over 36" of legroom in economy (which you have to pay a premium for even on Zoom) - sometimes for half the price of an equivilent route in Air Canada/BMI/British Airways economy.
j
Edited by: Zabba
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Vacation Visitors to B.C. ONLY...buying a car & getting insuranceThis question about a visitor to BC buying a car, has been asked a few times, and here is the official answer from ICBC. (Insurance Corporation of British Columbia)
The e-mail address to find out if you can qualify is feedback@icbc.com
The maximum time is 3 Months.
You will need a mailing address, (a friends address is preferable but a post office box maybe excepted) not the address on your driving licence.
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New BrunswickProvincial Tourism Website
Cities
Saint John
Moncton
Cool Festivals
Hot Air Balloons, Sep 9-11, Sussex
Fundy National Park
Edited by: Zabba
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QuebecTourism website (in 6 languages): bonjourquebec
Cool festivals, among the hundreds taking place every year:
Quebec City Summer Fest - bilingual site
Montreal Jazz Festival - officially the world's biggest (Guinness book of records) - bilingual site
Drummondville's Mondial des cultures - dancers from around the world (Drummondville is located halfway between Montreal and Quebec City, on Hwy 20, south shore of the river
What's going' on in Montreal - clickable yearly calendar for access to events - bilingual site
Montreal's GREAT Youth Hostel
Map of Montreal's subway
Note that you may transfer from subway to bus or the opposite within 1 1/2 hour without paying a 2nd time - just ask for a transfer.
Need to know which bus to take or bus schedule in Montreal or Greater Montreal ? Call : A-U-T-O-B-U-S for free, bilingual answer
Kaleidoscope offers guided walking tours in Montreal (site in French - visits in English possible for groups only)
Guidatour offers walking tours also. Bilingual site, links
B&B networks in Montreal:
here and this one is focused on Platreau Mont-Royal's area - bilingual sites
Quebec City:
Official Tourism and Convention site - bilingual site
Tourism and Travel Guide - bilingual, plenty of links
Great city guide here - bilingual, plenty of links, pics, maps, road conditions, etc
Ferry between Quebec City and Levis - bilingual - schedule, pic, basic map
Weather:
Quebec City
for everywhere in Canada - bilingual; clickable map
Daily pic of sunset from Kamouraska, and Le Bic areas (bilingual, but who cares when it comes to pics ?)
Enjoy your stay here (and, for the posterity: we DO like foreigners, as long as they don't make a career out of "Quebec Bashing" ... )
Saskja
Edited by: Zabba
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Staying on the cheap in Montreal:-One way to cut back on costs during the summer in Montreal is to stay at the McGill University Residence Halls.. The program is not online, but a call ahead to Douglas Hall (follow link) will do the trick. The program runs from May to August, and costs approximately $45 CAD for a student and $50 CAD for a non-student. You get a single room with towels and bed linens, shared bathroom, free internet access (both in-room hookup and downstairs computer lab) and free continental (dining-hall) breakfast. The halls are all located at the top of Mont Royal, which is a very short (albeit all-downhill) walk to centre ville and Rue Ste-Catherine.
-The Montreal Youth Hostel is another option. It is a member of Hostelling International.
-You can often get very nice hotel rooms last-minute on Priceline.. I once paid $70 USD for an enormous room with a balcony at the Delta Montreal, a hotel which is otherwise upwards of $179 CAD per night.
