Witness All the Jasper National Park Has to Offer By Habeeb Salloum and Muna Salloum Packing up the van as we loaded up the children and luggage from our hotel in Edmonton, we embarked on our Canadian Rockies adventure hoping to find snow-capped mountains, turquoise lakes, raging waterfalls, and animals of the area. My daughter Muna […]
Quebec City: City and Country Adventures By Shelley Rotner Quebec City is celebrating its 400thanniversary. A visitor can still imagine what it was like four centuries ago. Remnants of the past are preserved in this tourist-friendly, UNESCO World Heritage site. The wharves, walls, and architecture set the scene. Quebec is a fortified, colonial port city […]
A summer trip to St Andrews by the Sea, New Brunswick Canada was a joy–no crowds, the best seafood, biking along oceanside trails and the Algonquin Resort.
Enjoying the highlights of a beautiful region By Tab Hauser Vancouver, B.C. for many tourists is a starting point for cruises to Alaska giving the city a day’s look before boarding. What travelers should know is that Vancouver and Vancouver Island nearby offers beauty, softadventures, great food, bears, whales, easy nature hikes and more. Our […]
Quebec’s Big Mountain in Tremblant Provides Plenty of Winter Fun By Max Hartshorne One January night, I had a nighttime adventure in the deep dark woods of the Laurentian mountains in Quebec. Our group of 21, ranging in age from 6 to 65, met up at the base lodge of Mont Tremblant and were fitted […]
The SAQ New France Festival in Quebec City, where 30,000 costumed revelers celebrate the first French presence in North America. By Stephen Hartshorne GoNOMAD Associate Editor “Le canard, le saumon, et le couchon Ont donne leur vies Pour provider mon bon petit dejeuner Au Chateau Frontenac.” “The duck, the salmon, and the pig Have given […]
Biking Canada’s 273 kilometer Confederation Trail By Katie Cerezo It was a summer made for a carefree adventure. I would have the longest vacation block – three weeks – in 12 years. In the fall, one brother would enter college and . They’re absolutely delicious but beware they’re guarded by mosquitos another brother would enter […]
Alberta: Ghost towns, dinosaurs and Hoodoos in the strange and wonderful Badlands of Canada.
Quebec City: Eating much more than poutine in this northern Quebec City where French is spoken and festivals, arts and culture goes on all year.
Ride The Peace Train: The Rocky Mountaineer A spectacular way to see Canada by train By Janis Turk When springtime hits the Canadian Rockies and winter ice cracks, beauty is laid bare. The sky turns the color of a sharp clear sapphire, snow-dusted mountain peaks sparkle and eagles soar. And perhaps nowhere on earth can […]
Discovering the region of Charlevoix: A Rock Climber’s Playground By Jeff Rutherford I was 100 meters up a steep, sheer rock face, secured to a metal cable via two carabiners on the harness secured to my waist. The goal was to climb across rock walls, cliffs and ledges of the Mont du Lac des Cygnes […]
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan: A Popular Family Travel Destination for 6,000 Years By Stephen Hartshorne GoNOMAD Associate Editor If travel blogs had existed two thousand years ago, the headline about Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, would have read, “Come for the barbeque, stay for the berries.” People from many First Nations tribes have been gathering here for more than six […]
