Where to go in Canada: neighborhood breakdowns, VIA Rail Corridor transit links, and daily budgets in CAD (C$).
Canada's financial and cultural metropolis rises along Lake Ontario with the 553-meter CN Tower, Victorian red-brick lanes in the Distillery District, world-spanning food neighborhoods (Kensington Market & Chinatown), and thunderous Niagara Falls just 2 hours south by GO Train.
Framed by the snow-dusted Coast Mountains and Pacific fjords, Vancouver lets you cycle the 10 km Stanley Park Seawall in the morning, kayak False Creek to Granville Island Public Market at lunch, and drive the dramatic Sea-to-Sky Highway to Whistler Blackcomb by afternoon.
Canada's oldest National Park (1885) and the adjoining Icefields Parkway (Highway 93 North to Jasper) showcase glacier-fed turquoise lakes—Lake Louise, Moraine Lake, and Peyto Lake—soaring 3,500-meter limestone peaks, and iconic Parks Canada red chairs.
North America's most effortlessly European metropolis blends 17th-century cobblestones in Vieux-Montréal and soaring Gothic Revival gold leaf at Notre-Dame Basilica with creative Mile End bagel bakeries, BIXI bike lanes, and Frederick Law Olmsted's Mount Royal Park.
The only fortified walled city north of Mexico and a UNESCO World Heritage treasure since 1985, Québec City perches on Cap Diamant above the St. Lawrence River with copper-roofed Château Frontenac, Petit-Champlain stone bistros, and Montmorency Falls.
Reached by a scenic 95-minute BC Ferries crossing through the Gulf Islands from Vancouver, British Columbia's garden capital centres on the Inner Harbour, Parliament Buildings, and the 55-acre floral wonderland of Butchart Gardens, with Tofino's wild Pacific surf to the west.
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