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dr Andrea McCrady has been the Official Chimes of the Dominion of Canada since 2008 and plays a new musical program each weekday on the Chimes in Ottawa's Peace Tower, which she arranges and compiles herself. We visited her in Ottawa.
Killarney Mountain Lodge in Ontario Actually we should have taken a boat tour to Killarney Provincial Park that day in September - as I said: actually. But when we woke up in the morning, the rain pelted the roof of our small, cozy log cabin with constant and steady pounding, and it was difficult to get up. We knew that was [...]
On this Ottawa Food Tour you will experience the city from its culinary side. Ottawa's Byward Market is just steps away from Parliament Hill, the powerhouse of Canada. Parliamentarians like to come here for their lunch break.
L'Anse from Meadows - Viking settlement and fishing village Even if the small town of L'Anse aux Meadows on the northwest coast of Newfoundland is mainly known for the world-famous archaeological excavation site, where Helge Ingstad and his wife Anne Stine proved that the Vikings around the year 1000 AD actually reached the coasts of North America, the fishing village [...]
The Five Most Beautiful Beaches in Canada Canada is usually associated with wild national parks, deep forests, and grizzly bears. Hardly anyone thinks of the most beautiful beaches in Canada. Most tourists do not know that Canada also has breathtaking beaches to offer. But a trip to the beach is definitely worth it, especially since the mild water temperatures in summer are also [...]
When traveling through Canada's Atlantic provinces, you come across it again and again on the menus of many restaurants: the lobster stew, which is usually served with fresh vegetables and fried potatoes, as here at the Tidal Watch Inn in St. Martin, New Brunswick. This stew is perhaps one of the best ways to cook lobster: it's a [...]
Rillettes are a French specialty. They are also served in the capital of the French-Canadian province of Quebec. They often cook according to traditional French recipes. With this duck rillettes recipe you can easily prepare it at home.
It is said that 30000 islands in Canada form an archipelago landscape in the southeast half of Georgian Bay of Lake Huron in Ontario. Among them are rocks as well as large islands overgrown by dense forest.
Anne of Green Gables is a fictional character for whom Prince Edward Island is famous. The girl with the pigtails and freckles ubiquitous on Prince Edward Island is an invention of Lucy Maud Montgomery. A visit to Green Gables brings them to life.
The Acadians on the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia Their story is tragic: the Acadians of Nova Scotia got caught between the fronts in the 18th century when the conflict between the English and the French over control of this part of the New World came to a head. The Acadians themselves were successful farmers who, through an ingenious method, brought the sea [...]
