The Yukon: Dawson City, the Dempster and Tombstone Territorial Park
Whitehorse to Dawson City is 533 km on the Klondike Highway, and for most of it the road has the Yukon River somewhere on its left, … Read more
The Traveller’s Choice Desk
Manitoulin Island and Georgian Bay: Freshwater Coast of Ontario
Georgian Bay is technically a bay of Lake Huron, but nobody who has stood on its shore believes that. It is about 15,000 square kilometres of … Read more
The Icefields Parkway: 232 Kilometres Between Banff and Jasper
There are longer roads in Canada and there are wilder ones, but few pack as much into a single day as the Icefields Parkway. Highway 93 … Read more
Sea to Sky: Vancouver to Whistler and On to Pemberton
The name says it plainly. Highway 99 leaves the salt water of Howe Sound at sea level and, within 120 kilometres, delivers you to a ski … Read more
Lake Superior’s North Shore: The Trans-Canada from Sault Ste. Marie to Thunder Bay
Lake Superior is not really a lake. It behaves like an inland sea, with fog banks, six metre waves and a horizon with nothing on it, … Read more
The Prairies Slowly: Grasslands, Badlands and the Cypress Hills
Most people cross the Prairies as fast as the Trans-Canada allows, eyes on the Rockies, and that is the reason so few of them ever see … Read more
Quebec City in Winter: Walls, Snow and the Carnival Weeks
Quebec City is lovely in every season, but winter is when it makes the most sense. The stone walls, the steep streets and the copper roofs … Read more
Halifax and the South Shore: Harbour, Peggy’s Cove and Lunenburg
Halifax has one of the great natural harbours of the world, and the city has spent the last twenty years turning its face back toward it. … Read more
Ottawa and Kingston Along the Rideau: Canal, Locks and Thousand Islands
The Rideau Canal was dug for a war that never came. Finished in 1832 as a military supply route between Montreal and the Great Lakes that … Read more
Canoeing Algonquin: Your First Backcountry Loop
There is a particular quiet that settles over Canoe Lake at seven in the morning in September. The mist lifts off the water in ropes, a … Read more