Nova Scotia: Fishing and Campfires
Experience Nova Scotia from a couple’s perspective: traveling by car down the coast.
Canada
Canada: New Brunswick’s Highland Games
Canada: New Brunswick’s Highland Games. Watching burley men and women toss logs while bagpipers play in Quebec.
Yukon: A Slice of Active Living
Exploring Canada’s Far North, Yukon By Terence Eder Canada is a vast country with outstanding landscapes. However, few travelers to Canada cast a glance beyond the favored ‘go to’ provinces of British Columbia, Alberta or Ontario. However, Canada’s three Territories – Yukon, Northern Territory, and Nunavut offer a travel experience like no other and are […]
France’s Magdalen Islands, off the Coast of Quebec
The Magdalen Islands, or the Maggies, remote and rural off Quebec’s coast By Cindy Bigras As a child, I heard few details about the islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence where my grandmother had grown up. Nobody knew much about what my family called the St. Madeleine Islands, a literal translation from French. I […]
Travel to the Arctic Circle
Baffin Explorer: Iceberg Capital of the North Arctic art adventures in Canada By Jamie Kimmel Baffin Island in the Arctic, Nunavut, Canada is the fifth largest island in the world. It was named after seventeenth century English navigator William Baffin. The entire island is littered with Vikings remains from the Pre Columbian era. Scholars have […]
Saskatchewan’s History in a Museum
Saskatchewan’s Western Development Museum, a profile of a place where the past comes alive in Saskatoon.
Search for Narwhals at Floe Edge
Narwhals in the Arctic: A tour to Repulse Bay takes people up close to these rare sea creatures that are visible swimming in the arctic waters and hunted.
Quebec City Carnival: A Light in Winter
Lighting Up Winter in Quebec City By Kathleen Broadhurst Winter Carnival in Quebec City is a three week long snow covered festival that celebrates and delights in the weather of the season. If the winter blues are starting to get you down, don’t go south, go north where the light of Quebec will be sure […]
Vancouver British Columbia: As Good as It Gets!
Biking or walking in Stanley Park and sushi everywhere! By Max Hartshorne GoNOMAD Editor Tell anyone on the East Coast your next destination is British Columbia, and they’ll sigh, then pause before looking up wistfully summoning gauzy fond memories. It seems that everyone I told I was going to BC had their own very favorable […]
Newfoundland: Hiking the Rocks
Western Newfoundland: Margie Goldsmith views Moose and spectacular scenery in Canada. Hiking on Gross Morne National Park through fjords and cliffs.
Nova Scotia Summer Roadtrip
Nova Scotia: Rafting the Tidal Bore, Savoring the Wines By Max Hartshorne GoNOMAD Editor Nova Scotia was called Acadia by its earliest French settlers in the 1500s. Today’s name, given to the big landmass later by the English, means “New Scotland.” For an American looking for a great summer holiday a world away but just […]
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia: Summer 2013
Lunenburg Nova Scotia Find out more about Nova Scotia on their tourism website. Photos by Max Hartshorne Read stories about Nova Scotia travel: Nova Scotia: Fishing and Campfires Nova Scotia: Driving to PEI, Cape Breton Nova Scotia Summer Roadtrip