Resting under the wooden planks of the Dufferin Terrace in Quebec City are the ruins of the Saint-Louis Forts and Chateaux, now a national park. Despite having been the seat of the governor of New France as early as 1620, it wasn’t designated as a National Historic Site until 2002 Read more…
Construction for the Diefenbunker started in 1959 and was completed by 1962. It was designed to house 535 personnel and equipment to function as an emergency government headquarters for 30 days in the event of a nuclear attack. The structure is four storeys deep with over 9,000 square metres of Read more…
Science North is an outstanding muti-storey zoo and science museum in Sudbury. Its buildings are connected by a skywalk with natural sunlight and a tunnel that goes through a geological fault from more than a billion years ago. The fault was discovered only when the museum was being built and Read more…
The Devil’s Mountain is a man made hill in former West Berlin to provide the NSA with a vantage point with which to build a spy station on. The spy station was used to intercept messages transmitted from East Germany since West Berlin was an exclave of West Germany. It Read more…
A three-kilometre bridge connects Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario with Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Its iconic steel arches are best observed from the canal’s national historic site. Managed by Parks Canada, you can walk around on the three islands, or rent a fat bike for $10 an hour to explore White Read more…
RESO is a series of underground and covered pathways in Montreal linking 69 destinations, 52 are interconnected without the need to pay for a metro ride. The name RESO is a play on words for the French word “reseau,” which means network. Toronto made a similar move by calling their Read more…
Parc Safari is the largest zoo in eastern Quebec, it’s an hour from Montreal and three hours from Ottawa. Its also only 10 km away from the border with the US so it sees a lot of American visitors. Thankfully, the border is closed so the already outrageous wait times Read more…
Driving on the Long Sault Parkway is free, but it costs $7.25 to buy a day pass to park at any parking lot or visit the beaches. The scenic drive is 11 km long on a chain of causeways and bridges that connect a dozen islands on the St. Lawrence Read more…
There’s a hill to the north of Toronto, on that hill sits North America’s largest castle – Casa Loma. It was completed in 1914 by Sir Henry Pellatt, a Canadian industrialist. The castle is now a museum showing off its 98 rooms and long corridors. There’s also an escape room Read more…
If John Wayne, Ronald Reagan, and Clint Eastwood could be neighbours this would be the place. This national park is so stunning I cried as I was driving through the twisting valley road. The pictures are real and being present in the dry gorges and between colorful sandy mounds was Read more…