Discover Canada - the world's second largest country, home to the Rocky Mountains, maple syrup, ice hockey, and more lakes than the rest of the world combined.
Canada is a country in North America. Its capital is Ottawa.
Canada is what happens when you give a country nearly ten million square kilometers and fill most of it with wilderness. It's the second largest country on Earth by area, but most of the 42 million people live within a hundred kilometers of the US border, leaving the vast majority of the territory to boreal forest, tundra, grizzly bears, and an almost obscene number of lakes - more than all other countries combined.
Officially bilingual in English and French, Canada is one of the world's most multicultural societies, with immigration woven into its national identity. The country invented basketball, peacekeeping, and insulin, produces 70% of the world's maple syrup, and takes ice hockey so seriously that a goal in overtime can make the evening news for a week. From the Rocky Mountains to the Maritime provinces, from Toronto's skyscrapers to the northern lights dancing over the Yukon, Canada quietly offers some of the most spectacular landscapes and livable cities on the planet.
North America's biggest vertical, a railway town at the bottom. Four ski days, one day off, and an honest word on how steep it is.
Bases: Downtown Revelstoke, Revelstoke Mountain Resort
Two parks, one 232 km road and a reservation system for the lakes. A June to September plan that says what is closed and what costs extra.
Canada's biggest city eats, argues and builds in every language, and it rewards anyone who walks off the tourist strip.
North America's biggest ski area, one mountain at a time. Four ski days, one day off, and honest notes on passes and the highway.
Bases: Whistler Village, Upper Village, Creekside, Squamish
Mountains, ocean and a lot of rain. Five days in Vancouver, planned so the weather can't spoil it.
Canada's French-speaking city, planned by neighborhood and by weekday: five days on foot and by metro, with a Tuesday start.
The Great One - holds over 60 NHL records and is widely considered the greatest hockey player in history
Ran 5,373 km across Canada on one leg during his Marathon of Hope for cancer research, a national hero
Songwriter and poet who created Hallelujah, one of the most covered songs in history, and a body of work spanning five decades
Author of The Handmaid's Tale and over 50 books, one of the most influential writers of the 20th and 21st centuries
Co-discovered insulin in 1921, saving millions of diabetic lives, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1923)
One of the best-selling music artists of all time with over 200 million albums sold, voice of My Heart Will Go On
Canadian-born physical education instructor who invented basketball in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1891
Media theorist who coined 'the medium is the message' and predicted the internet decades before it existed
Canada has more lakes than all other countries in the world combined, with an estimated 2 million lakes
Canada has the longest coastline of any country in the world at over 202,000 kilometers
Quebec produces over 70% of the world's maple syrup, and there is a strategic maple syrup reserve guarded like gold
Canada is the second largest country in the world by area, but has only about 42 million people
The Trans-Canada Highway is one of the longest national highways in the world at 7,821 km from coast to coast
Basketball was invented by Canadian James Naismith in 1891 using a peach basket and a soccer ball
Canada's official national sports are ice hockey (winter) and lacrosse (summer), both with deep Indigenous roots
The Bay of Fundy between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia has the highest tides in the world, rising up to 16 meters
Drop a pin where you think it is and see how close you got. A few rounds and you will place Canada and its neighbours without a second thought.
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