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1 Canada’s sights

2 Pacific Rim National Park
Cabot Trail The Canadian Rockies Niagara Falls Pacific Rim National Park Baffin Island The Prairies Vancouver/Victoria The Rocky Mountaineer Old Québec City Bay of Fundy

3 The Canadian Rockies What & Where: Straddling the British Columbia/Alberta border, this mountain chain runs from the U.S. border to the northern of British Columbia.

4 Pacific Rim National Park
The Canadian Rockies Cabot Trail Niagara Falls Pacific Rim National Park Baffin Island The Prairies Vancouver/Victoria The Rocky Mountaineer Old Québec City Bay of Fundy

5 Niagara Falls What & Where: Niagara Falls is actually three separate, massive waterfalls located on the Niagara River at the southern tip of Ontario, on the border between Canada and the United States: The Horseshoe Falls, the American Falls, and the smaller, adjacent Bridal Veil Falls. The crescent-shaped Horseshoe Falls is also known as the Canadian Falls as it is mostly in Canada. Why: The Falls are one of the truly natural wonders of the world. The sight and thunderous sound of the cascading waters are mesmerizing and the mystic power of the falls will always stay with you.

6 Pacific Rim National Park
Cabot Trail The Canadian Rockies Niagara Falls Pacific Rim National Park Baffin Island The Prairies Vancouver/Victoria The Rocky Mountaineer Old Québec City Bay of Fundy

7 Pacific Rim National Park
What & Where: Located on Vancouver Island’s rugged west coast, the park encompasses Long Beach, which is actually a 40-km stretch of wide, sandy beaches on the west coast of Vancouver Island between Ucuelet and Tofino.

8 Pacific Rim National Park
Cabot Trail The Canadian Rockies Niagara Falls Pacific Rim National Park Baffin Island The Prairies Vancouver/Victoria The Rocky Mountaineer Old Québec City Bay of Fundy

9 Cabot Trail What & Where: This 300 km trail through the highlands of Nova Scotia’s Cape Breton, on Canada’s east coast, is actually a drive; a beautiful, scenic loop carved into the side of mountains that rise high above the waters of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. It winds around Cape Breton’s northern shore, ascending to the plateaus of Cape Breton Highlands National Park.

10 Pacific Rim National Park
The Canadian Rockies Niagara Falls Baffin Island The Prairies Vancouver/Victoria The Rocky Mountaineer Old Québec City Bay of Fundy

11 Baffin Island What & Where: Canada’s largest island, and the fifth largest island in the world, lying between Greenland and the Canadian mainland, in the territory of Nunavut. Known to the local Inuit as Oikiqtaaluk, it was later known to the Norse as Helluland.

12 Pacific Rim National Park
The Canadian Rockies Niagara Falls The Prairies Vancouver/Victoria The Rocky Mountaineer Baffin Island Bay of Fundy Old Québec City

13 Vancouver/Victoria What & Where: Vancouver is a metropolitan city in the southwest corner of British Columbia, on Canada’s west coast. Victoria is a smaller city at the south end of Vancouver Island – a 1 ½ hr. ferry ride, or a 30-min. flight away.

14 The Canadian Rockies Baffin Island Niagara Falls The Prairies
The Rocky Mountaineer The Canadian Rockies Bay of Fundy Old Québec City Vancouver/Victoria

15 The Prairies What & Where: The prairie is a vast steppe-land area between the Rocky Mountains in the West and the Great Lake region in central Canada. The northern stretches of this region are home to Canada's boreal forest - one of the earth's last remaining relatively undisturbed forests large enought to maintain it's biodiversity.

16 The Canadian Rockies Old Québec City Niagara Falls
The Rocky Mountaineer Bay of Fundy The Prairies Vancouver/Victoria Baffin Island

17 The Rocky Mountaineer What & Where: A train vacation experience, the Rocky Mountaineer travels from the coast of British Columbia to the Rocky Mountains in Alberta, and vice versa.

18 Pacific Rim National Park
The Rocky Mountaineer Bay of Fundy Niagara Falls The Canadian Rockies Baffin Island Old Québec City Pacific Rim National Park The Prairies

19 Old Québec City What & Where: Quebec means, 'where the river narrows', in the native Canadian language of Alqounquin. Québec City is the capital of Québec, located on the St. Lawrence River in Central Canada.

20 Pacific Rim National Park
Vancouver/Victoria The Canadian Rockies Pacific Rim National Park Bay of Fundy The Prairies Niagara Falls Baffin Island Old Québec City The Rocky Mountaineer

21 Bay of Fundy What & Where: The Bay of Fundy is an ocean bay stretching between the provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.

22 Model Experimental Primary School of the University of Patras
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