Your 'must visit' places in Canada
Apr 10th 2008, 12:30 am
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Re: Your 'must visit' places in Canada
Has anyone mentioned the North Shore yet ?
Apr 10th 2008, 12:30 am
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Apr 10th 2008, 12:51 am
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Re: Your 'must visit' places in Canada
Yep but Cabot Trail - Cape Breton Island is a wonder of the world
Apr 10th 2008, 12:55 am
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Apr 10th 2008, 1:32 am
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Re: Your 'must visit' places in Canada
Doh!
Apr 10th 2008, 1:50 am
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Re: Your 'must visit' places in Canada
IMO, I wouldn't suggest 'visiting places'... instead, go do stuff.
1 - drive the Dempster Highway
http://www.iti.gov.nt.ca/parks/highw...s/dempster.htm
2 - go on a week long camping river trip
http://www.canoe-trips-ontario-canada.com/pukaskwa.htm
3 - hike the west coast trail
http://www.vancouverislandoutdoors.c...ail/views.html
4 - attend a powwow
http://powwows.com/
5 - go on a cattle drive
http://www.saddle-peak.com/index.html
Apr 10th 2008, 10:31 am
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Re: Your 'must visit' places in Canada
Cabot trail, Cape breton May 2007- tick ! 
New Brunswick this year, I've heard that Fundy National park is beautiful, any where else I should plan in for ?
New Brunswick this year, I've heard that Fundy National park is beautiful, any where else I should plan in for ?
Apr 10th 2008, 2:06 pm
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Re: Your 'must visit' places in Canada
Be aware that the Cabot Trail is very heavily traveled and the National Park campsites pack people in very tightly. There's much detailed signage telling one where to place one's feet and how best to bond with the flora. The views are spectacular but it's all very tame and controlled compared with, say, Newfoundland; it's nice but the experience is more Sussex coast than Cornwall coast.
Apr 10th 2008, 2:59 pm
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Re: Your 'must visit' places in Canada
some great replies/suggestions thanks, my shortlist gets longer
Apr 10th 2008, 3:06 pm
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Re: Your 'must visit' places in Canada
whitewater rafting in Clearwater , the national park is amazing and the day was a true memory.
oh and have a burger and glass of something special in the watermark restaurant on the beach in Kits Vancouver.
oh and have a burger and glass of something special in the watermark restaurant on the beach in Kits Vancouver.
Apr 10th 2008, 6:25 pm
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Re: Your 'must visit' places in Canada
Getting some ideas myself from this thread but I'll echo some previous sentiment.
:: Quebec City - Stay inside the walls if you can, makes the journey to the great restaurants easy and very pleasant. Le Lapin **** (I dunno french for burned rabbit I think) came highly recommended.
:: Niagara Falls - when you get bored of the water head up towards Niagara-on-the-Falls and try out some of the Canadian vineyard tours. Free icewine. Nice.
:: Quebec City - Stay inside the walls if you can, makes the journey to the great restaurants easy and very pleasant. Le Lapin **** (I dunno french for burned rabbit I think) came highly recommended.
:: Niagara Falls - when you get bored of the water head up towards Niagara-on-the-Falls and try out some of the Canadian vineyard tours. Free icewine. Nice.
Apr 10th 2008, 6:26 pm
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Re: Your 'must visit' places in Canada
I'd agree, with the exception of Montreal.
Apr 10th 2008, 6:59 pm
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Apr 10th 2008, 7:03 pm
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Re: Your 'must visit' places in Canada
Beg to differ: Lived in Montreal for 28 years and Vancouver is definitely scarier and wilder; you really have to scour Mtl to find junkies shootin' in the street. Sure it has it's strip clubs and drenching bars, but they are mostly regulated now by Gouvernement du Quebec.Vancouver's Chinatown is . . . well, forget it Jake. It's just Chinatown.
Apr 10th 2008, 7:21 pm
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Re: Your 'must visit' places in Canada
Muskoka, in Ontario! Its soooo pretty!