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Ontario General Interest
• A WorldWeb.com Travel Guide to General Interest in Ontario, Canada.
The best wines in the world seem to come from temperate, warm places like France, Italy, New Zealand, Australia, South America and California. It sometimes comes as a surprise to people, then, that Canada—often associated with cold, harsh weather patterns—has a booming wine industry that has been producing world-class vintages for decades. Canadian wine has garnered the country international recognition as a producer of fine, award-winning vino.
There are endless traveller's tours designed for those with a love for sports and the extreme. Hiking and walking tours, camping, rock climbing, and even swimming vacations exist in the plenty. Outdoor enthusiasts can pick up virtually any travel book and quickly flip to the pages describing the best paths, the most dramatic camping locations, or the steepest cliffs. But what about those with an interest in the most fluid of all art forms?
Big, bustling Toronto—Canada’s most populous and eclectic city—offers a diversity and energy like nowhere else. But with a bit of planning, a convenient base downtown and thanks to the inner city’s excellent public transit system, visitors can more than scratch the surface of this brimming city in a couple of tightly-packed days.
Upon thinking of Canada, one cannot suppress images of open space, diverse landscapes and striking hospitality spread among urban centres and rural communities. With a total area of 9,984,670 sq km (3,855,103 sq mi), plus natural attractions such as...
The Parry Sound area of Ontario sits high on a ledge of rock and water – the great Canadian Shield. It’s a spectacular assemblage of geography that combines rugged Georgian Bay shoreline with hundreds of thousands of lakes the glaciers left behind in their haste to head south. No wonder the passion for exploration has permeated the culture here for hundreds of years. Today, the All Terrain Vehicle (ATV), or quad, is one of the area’s most popular past times that combines this culture of exploration with a helping of adventure and a healthy dose of adrenalin.
Known as the cultural hub of Canada, Ottawa is home to a vast array of art galleries, museums, fine dining, architecture and shopping. It is also one of the country's most picturesque cities with well-maintained parks, gardens and pedestrian pathways. Despite all the amazing amenities and attractions Ottawa has to
Toronto's diversity is apparent around every corner. This thriving metropolis of 2.5 million residents (8.1 million in the Greater Toronto Area) offers every flavour of the world, high-end and bargain bin shopping, renowned attractions, skyscrapers and fancy restaurants tucked in the basement of century old buildings.
The coolest season in the world is a Canadian winter—and not just because it gets so darned cold here. Simply put, Canada is a big place with unlimited wintertime possibilities. The country spans from Newfoundland and the Atlantic Ocean to Vancouver Island and the Pacific, with borders that reach from
Canada is a hotbed for heart-thumping, adrenaline-pumping action. Geographically, it is the second largest country in the world and accordingly, it offers one of the most diverse landscapes in the world. Canada is known internationally as a world-class skiing and snowboarding destination due to long northern winters, heavy snowfall and a wild assortment of mountains and peaks that span the nation. But the country also offers many other activities that cater to hardcore thrill-seeking individuals. From the tides of the Pacific to the flatlands of the Western Canadian prairies, this enormous country has the right fix for any adrenaline junkie.
In the past few decades, Canada has started to shed its image as a frigid land of vast wilderness in favour of a sophisticated, urban persona. Canada's major cities are now being seen for what they are—vibrant, modern hubs of activity. The country's urban centres boast many attractions, one of the most significant being their world-class shopping facilities.
Employing the skills of thousands of artisans over the course of months, if not years, architecture is far and away society’s most complex form of artistic expression. From complex pedestrian walkway systems to elegant Victorian hotel resorts, the following WorldWeb.com travel guide will point out ten of Canada’s greatest architectural wonders.
When it comes to Christmas, no one does it better than Canada. The holiday season brings blankets of thick white snow, a multitude of holiday traditions and, thanks to Canada’s northerly location, plenty of darkness. So it should come as no surprise that a favorite holiday practice in the Great North, is setting up beautiful light displays.
When it comes to Christmas, no one does it better than Canada. The holiday season brings blankets of thick white snow, a multitude of holiday traditions, and thanks to Canada’s northerly location, darkness. So it should come as no surprise that a favorite holiday practice in the Great North, is setting up beautiful light displays.
People eat with their eyes. From the visual presentation of the food on the plate to a restaurant's decor, these visual cues add to the dining experience. All across Canada, top restaurants excel in these departments and several take that visual component to the next level--literally.
Exhibiting the flora of Canada's vast landscapes and often exotic species from afar, the country's public gardens foster an appreciation of the planet's diverse, precious and vital plant life, and offer brightly coloured, sweet-scented and lovingly tended natural sanctuaries for anyone to enjoy. The Great White North's publicly accessible gardens bloom among the world's best and here are WorldWeb.com's Top 10 picks.
Although widely regarded as a hotbed for Winter sports, regardless of the time of year Canada hosts a large array of top-notch sporting events. Spanning sports as diverse as ice-hockey and equestrian show jumping, to golf and Formula One racing, no sport is ill-represented in this country of 33 million inhabitants.
For many decades now, people have sought out the scaled down lifestyle of the cottage. In Ontario, cottage vacations are monumental pastimes. The surrounding shore of the over 250,000 lakes, as well as the bewitching wilderness and rural areas have been utilized as sites for thousands of private and public cottages. People head in droves to the cottage in search of hammock-swaying snoozes, exceptional air quality and outdoor pursuits. Although cottage life is becoming a bit more crowded, it is still nowhere near the congestion of urban areas. Thus for many, the change of scenery will calm the urban beast within that has resulted from living in close proximity to millions of people.
Canada has the reputation of the frozen north, but to Martin Luther King and thousands of other black Americans, Canada was a sort of North Star—a gleaming beacon of hope that they followed and fought their way to. From 1840 to 1860, Canada emblemized freedom from oppression, and it was there that many brave enslaved people risked their lives to enter. This struggle was known as the Underground Railroad.
Canadians welcome, celebrate and appreciate summertime in a way that only residents of a country which receives six months of cold and snowy winters can. For many, one of the most anticipated and exciting aspects of summer, along with the long days and hot weather, are the many music festivals that take place in the country between June and September.
An ailing man in his 80s, once physically strong but still strong in spirit, stands silently, listening to his own breath that inhales the air of freedom as he stands on Canadian soil remembering the land that he fought for. With courage, he remembers friends, family and allies whose breaths were taken away by war.
From the sub-arctic muskeg surrounding Hudson Bay to the fertile soils and temperate climate of the Kawarthas,
Ontario is a diverse landscape. Each part of the province offers something different. Northwestern Ontario is a land of lakes and open space, home to Hudson and James Bay and an abundant wildlife population. Northeastern Ontario is filled with
A great way to combat the sweltering heat on a hot summer day is to make a splash at a waterpark. There are a wide variety of parks all over North America where visitors can experience slippery loops, drops and
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