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Hello From Nova Scotia – Enjoying Halifax’s Harbour walk and Pier 21 – Canada’s Immigration Museum
Jul 21st
My Halifax City Tour, expertly narrated by Allen Mackenzie, a passionate Haligonian in a kilt, had provided me with a great overview of this city, and my visit to the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic had added to my knowledge of Halifax, particularly of its connection to the Titanic and the 1917 Explosion. Still mulling over the historic significance of this city, the largest population centre on Canada’s East Coast, I sat down close to the waterfront to finally have lunch and strengthen myself after an intense introduction to the city.
On this sunny, fairly warm day I had a seat More >
False promises finally fulfilled
Feb 5th
Canada has ambitious targets of immigration aimed at raising its population from 25 to 40 million by 2020. Behind every immigrant’s statistics, however, is a personal tale. Martin Smith tells his…
It was autumn 2004 and, after three years in North East, the marketing job, Number Two to the managing director, just wasn’t working out. And, it wasn’t the first time.
It was clear, I had to change jobs — the long hours with little or no reward were just getting me down.
I seriously started to think about my options. What did the region offer in terms of job prospects? Very little. More >
Buying a second home in Canada
Feb 1st
There is no doubt that the number of Brits buying and moving abroad has been increasing markedly. It is estimated that more than 2.2 million currently own property abroad and that, in the past six years, more than a million have emigrated permanently. Between 2000 and 2004, there was a 250 per cent increase in the number of British residents buying property abroad solely for investment purposes, and more than one and a quarter million Brits own second homes in Spain and France already.
Many people dream of a second home in Canada
While near neighbours Spain, France, Greece, Italy, Cyprus and More >
Win one of 10 subscriptions to Canada Magazine
Jan 13th
Canada Magazine is a great new magazine about the country that offers the world’s most exciting range of holiday and adventure opportunities. Whether it’s family vacations lazing by languid lakes, pampering yourself in a luxury spa, testing your endurance in the Arctic tundra, or sampling the best single vineyard wines, Canada offers it all.
But no-one has previously tried to capture this rich diversity within the pages of a single high-quality lifestyle and travel magazine. Now that’s changing, with the launch of the brand new Canada Magazine.
Our mission is to capture Canada’s rich diversity of landscape, people and culture More >
Vancouver makes Lonely Planet’s list of top 2010 destinations.
Jan 8th
Vancouver is just that kind of a ‘zen koan’—exotic yet familiar, challenging yet affirming. And this winter, during the 2010 Winter Games, is the time to visit.
The high rise towers of Vancouver
News from the Canadian Tourism Commission
| Search for images of Canada at our Digital Asset Management site.Vancouver, BC, February 2010: be there! Unless you’re, you know, planning on jetting to India for eye surgery.
That’s the advice of the good folks at Lonely Planet. In its Best of Travel 2010, the travel-guide publisher has tabbed Vancouver among the cities you simply have to see this year. Why? Those 2010 Winter Games, More >
DVD and Book Reviews
Jan 7th
When British adventurer Ed Wardle fulfilled a lifetime’s ambition by being left to fend for himself for three months in wilds of Yukon, the resultant TV show on the UK’s channel 4 and National Geographic channels (backed by Twitter and live blogs) proved something of a fiasco. Wardle cracked up, nearly starved, and was brought home after 50 days… Some, however, get on better with the Canadian wilderness. We review a couple of examples…
Northern Wilderness
The latest exploits of the remarkable Ray Mears
The book of survivalist Ray Mears’s journey through Canada’s vast northern landscapes tells the story of the fur trade, More >
Native Peoples – Siksika
Jan 7th
A visit to the Siksika Nation — the Blackfoot of Alberta – is a journey that tells us much about how the “sense of place” of the Aboriginal, or First Nation, peoples of Canada.
The event was a community affair; we had been invited to attend the unofficial inauguration of the magnificent Siksika Nation-Blackfoot Crossing Historical Park Interpretive Centre. In many respects it was like an enormous family picnic during which a great deal of inter-generational bonding was going on.
On another level, it was a soft-spoken but triumphant celebration of thousands of years of Siksika history; a validation and reconfirmation of More >
Toronto – My Kind of Town
Jan 4th
Bob Fisher invites us to spend a long weekend in his home city, Toronto…
How does a travel journalist describe the city in which he has spent most of his life?
A Latin professor of mine at university many years ago insisted that we speak certain rather arcane sentences. I remember especially:
Strepitum odi urbium; rus est semper mihi gratissium (I hate the din of cities; the country is most pleasing to me.)
There is the perennial love-hate relationship with cities and their cultures of “the rush”. As poor angst-ridden Woody Allen once said in a documentary, “I like everywhere I go; I just More >
Go West to Cortes
Dec 23rd
While other 20-year-olds were heading for the all-night discos of the Mediterranean, Hannah Abbott chose to Go West…
Cortes
A Mecca for East-coast Canadian travellers partial to a bit of peace and love, the islands off the West coast of British Columbia would have remained undiscovered for me were it not for a friend of a friend of a friend. Well, one island in particular: Cortes.
I spent a month there, variously staying with old friends, crashing at new friends’, sleeping under the stars, and living in a refurbished 1955 school bus. It’s just that kind of place.
We certainly got there in style. More >
Interview – Rufus Wainwright
Dec 23rd
Rufus Wainwright - Image by Sharat Ganapati
Much as we’re loathe to appeal to the baser instincts of people who like to stereotype their pop and rock stars, it behoves us to report that we are talking to Montréal-raised Rufus Wainwright in a pink tent. He is dressed in a suit that defines the word dapper. He is one of rock’s smartest and classiest, openly gay, the owner of a knowing wink and the creator of some of the most operatically inclined pop music of the past ten years. He is firm in the belief that his music must be of More >
