Natural features
Bay of Fundy and Hopewell Rocks
Sackville, New Brunswick
The Bay of Fundy has the highest tides in the world, up to 16 m.
Travel tips in Canada
Tours and activities
Cabot Trail, Cape Breton
Nova Scotia
A 298 km loop road around northern Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, through the Cape Breton Highlands National Park, with ocean cliffs, Acadian and…
Natural features
Churchill polar bears
Manitoba
A small town on Hudson Bay, the 'polar bear capital of the world', where bears gather each October and November waiting for the sea to freeze.
Tours and activities
Icefields Parkway
Alberta
A 232 km road through the Rockies between Lake Louise and Jasper, past more than 100 glaciers, turquoise lakes such as Peyto and Bow, and waterfalls.
Natural features
Moraine Lake and Lake Louise, Banff
Banff, Alberta
Two glacier-fed lakes of brilliant turquoise in Banff National Park, Canada's oldest national park.
Natural features
Niagara Falls (Canadian side)
Niagara Falls, Ontario
The Canadian side has the best view of all three falls, especially the Horseshoe Falls, with water thundering 57 m over a curved edge.
Historic sites
Old Quebec
Québec, Quebec
The only walled city north of Mexico, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, with cobbled streets, stone houses and the Château Frontenac hotel towering over …
Natural features
Pacific Rim and Tofino, Vancouver Island
Tofino, British Columbia
Wild Pacific beaches, old-growth rainforest and surf on the west coast of Vancouver Island.
Tours and activities
Rideau Canal Skateway, Ottawa
Ottawa, Ontario
In winter the Rideau Canal through the middle of Ottawa freezes into the Rideau Canal Skateway, 7.8 km of ice from the National Arts Centre, next to …
Natural features
Stanley Park, Vancouver
West End, British Columbia
A park of 400 hectares of rainforest on a peninsula next to downtown Vancouver, with the 10 km Seawall path for walking and cycling, beaches, totem p…
Tours and activities
Algonquin Provincial Park
Ontario
A huge park of forests, lakes and rivers in Ontario, ideal for canoe trips, with more than 2,000 km of canoe routes.
Buildings
CN Tower, Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
A 553 m tower, the tallest free-standing structure in the Western Hemisphere until 2009, with a glass floor and the EdgeWalk, where you walk around t…
Natural features
Gros Morne National Park
Newfoundland and Labrador
A UNESCO-listed park on Newfoundland's west coast with fjords, mountains and the Tablelands, where the Earth's mantle is exposed.
Natural features
Jasper National Park
Alberta
The largest national park in the Canadian Rockies, wilder than Banff, with Maligne Lake and the boat trip to Spirit Island, the Maligne Canyon, and t…
Historic sites
Old Montreal
Montréal, Quebec
The historic quarter of Montreal by the St Lawrence, with cobbled streets, the Notre-Dame Basilica with its deep blue starry ceiling and the 'Aura' l…
Natural features
Peggy's Cove
Nova Scotia
A small fishing village with a lighthouse on smooth granite rocks by the Atlantic, one of the most photographed places in Canada.
Tours and activities
Whistler
Whistler, British Columbia
One of North America's largest ski resorts, two mountains linked by the Peak 2 Peak gondola.
Historic sites
Dawson City and the Yukon
Dawson City, Yukon
The heart of the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898, with wooden boardwalks, saloons and a casino.
Buildings
Parliament Hill, Ottawa
Ottawa, Ontario
The Gothic Revival home of Canada's Parliament, above the Ottawa River.
Natural features
Prince Edward Island
Prince Edward Island
A small island province of red cliffs, sandy beaches and farmland, the setting for Anne of Green Gables; visit the Green Gables Heritage Place in Cav…
Natural features
Thousand Islands
Gananoque, Ontario
Nearly 1,900 islands in the St Lawrence River on the border with the USA, many with summer houses and castles such as Boldt Castle (on the US side).