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Water Alert Bay
"Living Kwakwaka'wakw culture and a harbour boardwalk meet on small Cormorant Island."
Wilderness Algonquin Park
"Loon calls cross mirror lakes at dawn in the park that taught Canada to canoe."
Mountain Athabasca Glacier
"A tongue of the Columbia Icefield lies close enough to touch, and visibly leaving."
Water Atlin
"A gold-rush lake town drowses beside jade water beneath far-northern peaks."
Mountain Auyuittuq National Park
"Granite walls a kilometre high line an Arctic pass between two Inuit communities."
Wilderness Baker Lake
"Nunavut's only inland community makes bold art near the exact centre of Canada."
Mountain Banff
"Canada's first national park began as a bathhouse, and you can still take the waters."
City Barkerville
"A Cariboo gold-rush town runs whole, bakery to Chinatown to theatre, deep in working preservation."
Water Battle Harbour
"A restored salt-fish capital waits on a Labrador island, reached only by boat past drifting ice."
Water Bay of Fundy
"The world's highest tides drain whole bays twice daily, uncovering sea caves and flowerpot rocks."
Mountain Bella Coola
"A glacier-walled valley drops from the Chilcotin to a Nuxalk river town at tidewater."
Water Bonavista
"Sea cliffs, saltbox colours and a working headland face the open North Atlantic."
Mountain Cape Breton Highlands
"From the Skyline Trail's cliff decks you watch for whales; moose live on the plateau behind."
City Cape Dorset (Kinngait)
"The Arctic's printmaking capital works stone and paper in a bay of granite light."
Wilderness Cathedral Grove
"Douglas firs eight centuries old stand within steps of the island highway."
Wilderness Churchill
"Polar bears walk into town so often it runs a 24-hour bear hotline."
Water Churchill River
"A voyageur highway of lakes and granite still runs its canoe routes through the boreal north."
Wilderness Clayoquot Sound
"Whales work island channels below forest that has never been cut."
Water Clearwater River
"A wilderness river of glass-clear water runs the old voyageur road through roadless boreal forest."
City Dawson City
"A permafrost boomtown still serves whisky garnished with a real human toe."
Wilderness Dempster Highway
"Canada's only all-season Arctic road runs 740 unpaved kilometres to the Mackenzie Delta."
Wilderness Dinosaur Provincial Park
"One river bend has yielded dinosaurs by the species, the richest Cretaceous ground on Earth."
Wilderness Drumheller
"Hoodoos, coulees and the world's dinosaur museum share a badlands valley cut through wheat country."
Water Fathom Five National Marine Park
"Shipwrecks show through Georgian Bay water clear enough to read their decks from the surface."
Water Ferryland
"A picnic arrives at an 1870s lighthouse while icebergs and whales pass the headland below."
City Flin Flon
"A mining town named for a pulp sci-fi hero clings to Precambrian rock at Manitoba's border."
Wilderness Grasslands National Park
"Unploughed prairie runs to the horizon where bison graze beneath some of Canada's darkest skies."
Mountain Gros Morne
"Earth's mantle lies exposed as a rust-orange plateau beside fjords cut through ancient rock."
Wilderness Gwaii Haanas
"A roadless archipelago of Haida village sites is entered only by sea, air and consent."
Wilderness Gwichʼin Settlement Region
"Caribou country and delta channels spread across the western Arctic's Gwich'in homeland."
Wilderness Haida Gwaii
"Rainforest islands hold Haida art, memory and a table fed entirely by their own waters."
Wilderness Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
"A prairie cliff holds six thousand years of Blackfoot bison hunting in its layered earth."
Water Herschel Island
"An Arctic island of whalers' relics and Inuvialuit continuity rides the Beaufort Sea."
Water Hornby Island
"Warm shallows, sandstone shelves and a creative community ring a small Gulf Island."
Mountain Icefields Parkway
"Two hundred and thirty glacier-hung kilometres link Banff to Jasper along the spine of the Rockies."
Wilderness Île d'Anticosti
"Waterfalls, canyons and fossil-rich shores spread across a Gulf island with one village and few humans."
Water Îles de la Madeleine
"Red cliffs crumble into turquoise shallows around an Acadian archipelago of dunes and fishing ports."
City Inuvik
"A Mackenzie Delta town grows gardens under midnight sun inside an old hockey arena."
City Iqaluit
"Nunavut's young capital rides tundra ridges above a bay that empties twice a day."
Mountain Jasper
"The whole town sits inside the world's second-largest dark-sky preserve."
Mountain Kananaskis Country
"Alberta keeps a whole working mountain playground one range over from Banff's coaches."
Wilderness Kejimkujik National Park
"Dark lakes and old portage routes carry Mi'kmaw history beneath star-rich skies."
Mountain Kluane National Park
"The world's largest non-polar icefields hide behind front ranges that only flights reveal."
Water L'Anse aux Meadows
"The Americas' only confirmed Norse settlement lies as low green earthworks on a windswept shore."
Mountain Lake Louise
"A turquoise lake ends at a glacier wall, with century-old teahouses hidden up its trails."
City Louisbourg
"An 18th-century French fortress town rises again in fog, musket smoke and fresh-baked soldiers' bread."
City Lunenburg
"A UNESCO port of painted clapboard climbs from a harbour that still rigs tall ships."
Water Manitou Springs
"A prairie lake so mineral-dense that floating is involuntary fronts a small resort town."
Water Manitoulin Island
"The world's largest lake island holds lakes of its own, limestone trails and living Anishinaabe country."
Mountain Mount Robson
"The Rockies' highest wall rises nearly three vertical kilometres above its own visitor centre."
Mountain Nááts'ihch'oh National Park Reserve
"Fly-in headwaters country protects the Nahanni's upper reaches in near-total solitude."
Wilderness Nahanni Butte
"A small Dene community keeps the gate where the Nahanni meets the lowlands."
City Niagara Falls
"A river the size of a sea pours over the Horseshoe metres from the promenade rail."
Wilderness Osoyoos
"Canada's warmest lake meets its only semi-desert in a valley of vines and orchards."
Water Pacific Rim National Park Reserve
"Cold surf, cedar rainforest and kilometres of open sand line Vancouver Island's exposed shore."
Mountain Pangnirtung
"A fiord hamlet of world-famous weavers ships Arctic turbot from a community-owned plant."
Water Percé
"A pierced limestone rock the size of a cathedral stands offshore from a Gaspésian fishing town."
Wilderness Port Renfrew
"Giant trees and giant surf bracket a fishing town at the west coast road's end."
City Québec City
"North America's only walled city folds four centuries of French life into cliff-top stone lanes."
Water Red Bay
"A 16th-century Basque whaling station sleeps under a sheltered Labrador harbour."
Water Saguenay Fjord
"Dark water runs between towering forested walls where an inland sea empties toward the St Lawrence."
Water Shubenacadie River
"The Fundy tide charges upriver twice daily, turning a calm brown river into surfable waves."
Water Tadoussac
"Whales feed where the cold Saguenay meets the St Lawrence beneath a village of red roofs."
Water Telegraph Cove
"A boardwalk village on stilts faces water where orcas pass close enough to hear."
Mountain The Burgess Shale
"Half-billion-year-old creatures lie pressed in mountain shale above a tiny railway town."
Water The Thousand Islands
"Castles, cottages and channels scatter through a granite archipelago where the St Lawrence widens."
City Thetford Mines
"Mine terraces the size of amphitheatres frame a Québec town facing its asbestos century head-on."
Water Tofino
"A fishing village became Canada's cold-water surf capital without losing its working harbour."
Mountain Tombstone Territorial Park
"Black granite teeth rise over tundra that turns crimson in the brief Arctic autumn."
Water Twillingate
"Iceberg Alley delivers its giants past cliff paths, lighthouses and harbour villages."
Water Ucluelet
"Each season the town's aquarium empties itself back into the harbour."
Wilderness Val-Jalbert Ghost Town
"A seventy-metre waterfall thunders over a mill village stopped in 1927 and carefully woken again."
Wilderness Wanuskewin Heritage Park
"Six thousand years of Northern Plains life gather in one prairie coulee where bison walk again."
Mountain Waterton Lakes
"Prairie runs straight into mountain walls beside a deep, wind-bright lake."
Wilderness Wells Gray Provincial Park
"Waterfalls on a volcanic scale pour through a park most itineraries still miss."
Water Witless Bay
"Puffins crowd offshore islands by the hundred thousand while whales feed beneath the boats."
Wilderness Wood Buffalo National Park
"Canada's largest park spreads salt plains, boreal wetlands and free-ranging bison toward the sixtieth parallel."
Wilderness Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park
"Hoodoos guard the Great Plains' largest concentration of rock art above the Milk River."
Water Yellowknife
"Houseboats, aurora and a fish shack of national reputation share a Shield-rock capital."
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Ice drifts past the shore. Art has found a home on land.
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Among the dark trees, a bear may wear white.
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Before bones and shells, life left its shape on this shore.
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The water takes a mighty leap. No road comes to meet it.
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Carved figures face the ocean where a village once stood.
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A crescent of sand in the Atlantic, written over with hoofprints.
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Ancient rock drops into fjords. Inuit knowledge guides the way.
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