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Vancouver Aquarium
Stanley Parks biggest draw, the aquarium is home to 9000 water-loving critters – including sharks, wolf eels and a somewhat shy octopus. Theres also a small, walk-through rainforest area of birds, turtles and a statue-still sloth. The aquarium also keeps captive whales and dolphins
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Meewasin Valley
The Meewasin Valley, formed by the South Saskatchewans wide swath through the center of town, is named for the Cree word for beautiful. Mature trees populate the riverbanks, while sections of the 60km Meewasin Trail , extend from downtown paths, winding through forests and along th
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Athabasca Falls
A deafening combination of sound, spray and water, Athabasca Falls is Jasper’s most dramatic and voluminous waterfall. Copious visitors crowd the large parking lot and short access trail to catch a glimpse of this enduring park emblem, which is just off the Icefields Pkwy, 28km (17
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Forks National Historic Site
In a beautiful riverside setting, modern amenities for performances and interpretive exhibits outline the areas history. Footpaths line the riverbank; plaques offer historical context.The rivers routinely overflow during spring runoff and flooded pathways are not uncommon, an event
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Le Château Frontenac
Reputedly the worlds most photographed hotel, this audaciously elegant structure was built in 1893 by the Canadian Pacific Railway as part of its chain of luxury hotels. Its fabulous turrets, winding hallways and imposing wings graciously complement its dramatic location atop Cap D
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Royal Alberta Museum
Since getting its royal prefix in 2005 when Queen Liz II dropped by, Edmonton’s leading museum has successfully received funding – a cool $340 million – for a new downtown home which should be complete by 2015. For the time being, you can call in to these long-standing digs, on a b
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Distillery District
Centered around the 1832 Gooderham and Worts distillery – once the British Empires largest – the 5-hectare Distillery District is one of Torontos best downtown attractions. Its Victorian industrial warehouses have been converted into soaring galleries, artists studios, design bouti
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Elgin & Winter Garden Theatre
A restored masterpiece, the Elgin & Winter Garden Theatre is the worlds last operating double-decker theater. Celebrating its centennial in 2013, the Winter Garden was built as the flagship for a vaudeville chain that never really took off, while the downstairs Elgin was conver
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Art Gallery of Alberta
With the opening of this maverick art gallery in 2010, Edmonton at last gained a modern signature building to counter the ubiquitous boxy skyscrapers. Looking like a giant glass-and-metal space helmet, the futuristic structure in Churchill Sq is an exhibit in its own right. Its col
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Musée des Beaux
A must for art lovers, the Museum of Fine Arts has amassed several millennia worth of paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, furniture, prints, drawings and photographs. European heavyweights include Rembrandt, Picasso and Monet, but the museum really shines when it comes to Canadi
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Casa Loma
Torontos only castle may have never housed royalty, but it certainly has grandeur, lording over The Annex on a cliff that was once the shoreline of the glacial Lake Iroquois, from which Lake Ontario derived. Climb the 27m Baldwin Steps up the slope from Spadina Ave, north of Davenp
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St Lawrence Market
Old Yorks sensational St Lawrence Market has been a neighborhood meeting place for over two centuries. The restored, high-trussed 1845 South Market houses more than 50 specialty food stalls: cheese vendors, fishmongers, butchers, bakers and pasta makers. Inside the old council cham
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High Park
Torontos favorite and best-known park is a wonderful place to unfurl a picnic blanket, swim, play tennis, bike around, skate on the Grenadier Pond in the winter, or in the spring meander through the groves of cherry blossoms donated to the park by the Japanese ambassador in 1959. T
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Musée de la Civilisation
This museum wows you even before you’ve clapped your eyes on the exhibitions. It is a fascinating mix of modern design that incorporates pre-existing buildings with contemporary architecture. The permanent exhibits, such as the one on the cultures of Québec’s Aboriginals and the on
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Basilique Notre
Montréals famous landmark, Notre-Dame Basilica, is a visually pleasing if slightly gaudy symphony of carved wood, paintings, gilded sculptures and stained-glass windows. Built in 1829 on the site of an older and smaller church, it also sports a famous Casavant organ and the Gros Bo
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Canadian Museum of Civilization
Allow plenty of time to experience this high-tech, must-see museum across the river, in Hull, Québec. Documenting the history of Canada through a range of spectacular exhibits, its an objective recounting of the nations timeline from the perspectives of its aboriginal peoples, its
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Battlefields Park
One of Québec City’s must-sees, this verdant cliff-top park contains the Plains of Abraham , site of the infamous 1759 battle between British General James Wolfe and French General Louis-Joseph Montcalm that determined the fate of the North American continent. Packed with old canno
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Columbia Icefield
About halfway between Lake Louise Village and Jasper Town is the only accessible section of the vast Columbia Icefield, which covers an area the size of the city of Vancouver and feeds eight glaciers. This remnant of the last ice age which is up to 350m thick in places stetches acr
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La Citadelle
Covering 2.3 sq km, North Americas largest fort was begun by the French in the 1750s and completed by the British in 1850, intended to defend against an American invasion that never came. A one-hour guided tour takes in the regimental museum and numerous historical sites. Summer-on
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LAnse aux Meadows National Historic Site
Leif Eriksson and his Viking friends lived here circa AD 1000. The remains of their waterside settlement – eight wood-and-sod buildings, now just vague outlines left in the spongy ground – are what visitors can see, plus three replica buildings inhabited by costumed docents. The la
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