What should I visit and see in Canada?

Question

I am going to Canada for a month this summer and I want some information about places I can visit or other things to do and see!

Answer 1

Well Canada is HUGE I`ve lived there for all my life (22 years) and have only seen a small portion of it. Here are my suggestions:

1. The West (BC / Alberta)

BC is really beutiful if you like out door stuff. There are tons of forests and beutiful beaches. If your heading to BC in the summer I recommend Victoria Island. There are tons of nice schenic places here and the capital city of BC (Victoria) is also there. In Victoria there are tons of things to do like the Wax Museum and Whale watching. The beaches are nice but can be a bit cold especially in the winter.

If your in BC during the winter I recommend the center, there are tons of nice ski resorts for you to check out (do a google search for "British Columbia +skiing" for the best locations)

As for Alberta in the summer there are lots of rodeos and festivals. I recommend the city of Edmonton, where you can visit the worlds largest mall (West Edmonton Mall) and check out some of the really kewl festivals like the fringe festival.

If you there in the winter the rocky mountains are a must see. There is Banff which has arguably the best mountins for skiing and very nice hot springs but its really touristy and can be a bit crowded and over priced. I would recommend Jasper its a smaller city, less touresty with a nice mountain for skiing as well as glaciers that you can check out.

2. The Center (Sask. / Manitoba / Western Ontario)

Unfortunatly these provinces are extremly flat and boring. I was born in Sask and lived there for 18 years and still am not sure what is worth seeing. The city of Moosejaw has a number of tunnels that the mob used to store drugs and such but its not that interesting. In the winter it gets really really cold here so I is worth avoiding.

3. The East (Ontario / Quebec / Newfound Land / PEI / Nova Scotia / New Brundswhick)

I`m not as fermilyar with the east but it is supposed to be very beutiful. Check out the Montreal which is a very amazing and artsy city which alot of english speakers but be warned if you travel very far into Quebec make sure to know a little french. In Ontraio Niagra Falls is worth seeing as well as the CN tower in Toronto. The far east is beutiful and full of many fishing cities with very frendly people and nice beaches. The bridge to P.E.I. is one of the worlds largest (if not the largest)

4. The North (NW Territories)

Lots of wilderness most of it uninhabited. Very beutiful in the summer but its costly to get around. Yellowknife is apparntly very nice in the summer.

Hope that helps, the best suggestion I have though is to pick up a travel guide. I like lonely planet but there are all pretty much the same. Take a browse through them to see if they suggest places that suite your budget and things that intrest you.

Hope you enjoy yourself!

( note: couldn`t get the spell check to work...sorry :( )

Answer 2

The others gave great answers. Just be aware that if you are an international student and you go to a publicly owned school in Canada you will pay about triple what a Canadian student will pay. For the price you could to a lower end private school in the USA. As the parent of a student who was gone to both Canadian and US universities, that you are just as well off to stay in the USA. As well, she has found that because Canadian students get a better K-12 education, unless you are a really top, top US student that the Canadian kids will eat you alive academically at a Canadian university. My daughter and I moved to LA when she was 14. She did not do until grade 12 in the USA the science she did in grade 8 in Canada. She just tore through the US high school system compared to the other kids and finished a year early. Now she is on a full ride PhD in engineering at a top US university.

Answer 3

Atlantic Canada - check out: 1) the beaches on Prince Edward Island, 2) Halifax city, 3) the Cabot Trail in Cape Breton, 4) Fundy Park in New Brunswick

Central Canada - Check out: 1) Quebec City - very European!!, 2) Montreal - the city of Love and other XXX stuff, 3) Toronto area for shopping, the CN Tower, the waterfront. 4) Ottawa - Canada's capital!!

Western Canada - check out: 1) the vast ields of Saskatchewan and Mantioba, 2) Calgary Stampede (August timeframe), 3) the Rocky Mountains for sure - Stunning views and unmatched nature, 4) Vancouver's Stanley park

Northern Canada (Way North)- check out: Polar ice caps, 20-24 hours of sun on summer days, polar bears, grizzlies, iceflows, etc.

Answer 4

Canada is the 2nd largest county in landmass. It would take several months to see all of it.
Each province and territory has some things that are really trippy.
The Cabot Trail in Nova Scotia; the tidal bore in Fundy Bay; Magnetic Hill in New Brunswick; Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City, Quebec; many things in Toronto, Ontario. The list goes on and on all the way to British Columbia.
May I suggest that you take a cross-country train trip.
Hope you enjoy it here. :) :) :)

Answer 5

Please visit the City of Ottawa. Beautiful city of all the four seasons and we get absolute fantastic rating when we have a festival in the National Capital of Ottawa.

We have the best & finest festivals like Tulip Festival, Canada Day, Winterlude, Chamber's Music Festival, Bell Hockey Cup, etc.

Answer 6

Be sure to spend some time in Sudbury, ON - "The Palm Springs of Canada". Lots of posh resorts and golf courses, and the landscape is exquisite. Warm sunny days, cool evenings. Take a gondola ride on Sudbury's canal system with a singing gondolier.

Answer 7

Umm...I live in Victoria, and yes it's beautiful but it's on Vancouver Island, not Victoria Island. You'll have a hard time finding it if you don't know what it's called.