Canada Travel Stories Articles

Winter Getaway to Highfields Country Inn and Spa – Zephyr, Ontario, Canada

Looking for a quick getaway from Toronto? Neilia Sherman has the place for you.

The Icelands Parkway and the Num-Ti-Jah Lodge – Alberta, Canada

You ain’t seen nuthing until you’ve seen the Icela

A Stay in Not Just an Ordinary B&B In Banff, Alberta – Banff, Alberta

It took 35 years of traveling before Norm Goldman

The Canadian Badlands: Some Places Surpass One’s Expectations! – Alberta, Canada

Despite being overshadowed by its famous neighbor,

Alberta’s David Thomson Explorer’s Trail – Alberta, Canada

Norm Goldman thinks this stretch of road is Albert

Marvelous Miette – Alberta, Canada

For years Deb Smith had dreamed of visiting Miette

The End of the Americas (August 2004) – North America

If the end of Africa was an unexpected and exultant victory over a fierce opponent, the end of the Americas was becoming a sad drawn-out goodbye to a friend.

Victoria, BC – January 2000

Winter in Victoria usually means rain and cloudy skies with an all-pervasive grayness to the weather. Hours of daylight are short, and the city does seem to lose its ambiance. However, there are advantages to off-season travel. Room rates can be almost half the high season ones – and there’s still lots to see and [...]

Ontario, Canada – August 1999

Kings of Blue Mountain
After a restless night of eager anticipation, getting up at the
crack of dawn wasn’t hard since I had scarcely slept. Today my fiancée, my mother, my aunt and I were making the first of what will undoubtedly be an annual pilgrimage.
Our destination was a Mecca of our own design. [...]

Ontario, Canada – April 1999

Ontario Awakens from Hibernation
Every February 2 Wiarton, Ontario’s own albino gopher, Wiarton Willie predicates the weather for the next 6 weeks. This year he died before his big day, but his last words reportedly (I’m not making this up) were that we were getting an early spring.
Well, he was wrong! [...]