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Calgary is the largest city in the province Alberta, Canada. Calgary is well-known as a destination for winter sports and ecotourism with a number of major mountain resorts near the city and metropolitan area. The city is among the sunniest in Canada.

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Canada’s largest annual Icewine Festival is about to be launched this weekend with a myriad of wintry events along Niagara famous wine route. Starting Friday September 16th, Montebello Park in downtown St. Catharines will be the place to be for the next two weekends as the Balderson Wine Cheese and Food Experience brings over 40 Ontario wineries and restaurants together. Sample the best Niagara and Ontario has to offer, while enjoying wine seminars, art shows, children’s Grapeland, grape stomps, cooking demonstrations and big name jazz, blues and pop recording artists on the Main Stage. This year’s weekend headliners include Tributes to Chicago and Ray Charles on Friday evening, Sue Foley on Saturday night, and Ian Thomas on Sunday evening. Over 40 wineries are nestled in the rolling landscape of the Niagara Peninsula. The Niagara Peninsula is recognized globally as an outstanding wine producing region. Its soils are excellent and the climate is similar to that of great wine producing regions of the world such as Burgundy and Loire Valley of France plus New Zealand.

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The Museum is located in the heart of downtown Ottawa, at the Rideau Canal locks between Parliament Hill and the Chateau Laurier – one of the most picturesque sites in the city. It takes 20-30 minutes to tour the small building, which houses artifacts from the 1830s construction of the canal. The Bytown Museum is housed in Ottawa’s oldest stone building, the Commissariat of Lt. Colonel John By, Royal Engineers. Built in 1827, the building was the treasury and a storehouse during the building of the Rideau Canal. The Museum is operated by the Historical Society of Ottawa. The Bytown Museum tells the story of Col. By, the construction of the Rideau Canal as well as the early years of the city of Ottawa.

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The Peacekeeping Monument was erected on Confederation Boulevard in Ottawa. Named “Reconciliation”, the monument honours the contribution made by Canadian peacekeepers; recognizes Canada’s commitment to world peacekeeping and tells the story of Canada’s role in world peacekeeping. Since 1950 more than 112,000 Canadians have served as peacekeepers in countries such as Cyprus, Haiti, Egypt, Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda. The Peacekeeping Monument, entitled Reconciliation, was commissioned by the Canadian government in 1988 when the United Nations was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 40 years of international peacekeeping.

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The Dominion Arboretum of Canada, in 1886 a few farms, south west of Ottawa, were set aside as the Central Experimental Farm. Soon, the Dominion Arboretum and Ornamental Gardens were established. The first 200 species of trees and shrubs were planted in the autumn of 1889. By the end of the 19th century, more than 3,000 specimens made up the scientific and research collection. A collection in the north-east corner of the Arboretum can be viewed from Prince of Wales Drive, just as you enter The Farm from Dows Lake. It contains eight species, three varieties and has a wonderful showing of flowers during the early spring.

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Since their discovery in the late 1800s, visitors have travelled on horseback, by boat, and later by car, to benefit from the healing powers of Harrison Hot Springs and to stay in the renowned resort hotel overlooking Harrison Lake .
Rich in history and surrounded by breathtaking scenery, Harrison Hot Springs Resort & Spa was a natural acquisition by Delaware North Companies in fall 2002. The company is pleased to have made the resort the latest member of its family of world-class park, resort and tourism properties.

“Harrison is a jewel waiting for a grand vision, experience, and the capital required to develop it sensitively and bring it to the level of an international resort destination,” says new General Manager Donald Ponniah.

Ponniah, most recently at the corporation’s Tenaya Lodge in Yosemite, CA, jumped at the chance to move to British Columbia . “BC is truly ‘supernatural.’ When we’ve completed our renovation and restoration work, Harrison Hot Springs Resort & Spa will be a must-stay destination for its rich history, healing springs, scenic location and top caliber resort accommodations.”

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Treat yourself with some times of relaxation and discover all the kindness that spa is giving you in real nature and even the sauna, the vapour bath, the thermal falls, shiatsu, Scandinavian baths, Stone massage, and others. Energizing, stimulating, relaxing… Feel the relaxation in the rest areas and choose which kind is the your. Very popular in Scandinavian countries is the concept of alternating hot and cold temperatures over the course of 2 to 4 hours to achieve optimal relaxation. It gives the body and the mind a way to reach a feeling of well-being and of relaxation never felt before. The hot temperature helps to heat the body, to open the skin’s pores and help to evacuate all the toxins from the skin’s surface. The cold temperature helps to activate the blood circulation, to stimulate the immune system, to vitalize the nervous system and helps close down the pores with the heat all stored.

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Stretching for over two kilometers along the St. Lawrence River, the historical Old Port offers to the visitors and the natives alike access to an endless variety of recreational, maritime and entertainment activities. Admission to the site is free. The social, economic and cultural soul of Montreal ever since early French for trades used it as a trading post in 1611. Today, the riverfront welcomes over seven million visitors to year.

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The National Gallery of Canada located in the capital city Ottawa, Ontario. It is one of Canada’ premier art galleries Designed by architect Moshe Safdie and opened in 1988 at its current location on Sussex Drive. This treasure house in granite and glass is the home of Canada’s exceptional art collection. It develops, maintains, and promotes, throughout Canada and internationally, a collection of both historic and contemporary art with special, but not exclusive, reference to Canada.

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The track was built over a hundred years ago, but the journey is timeless. Chose your train – perhaps the 1950s ornate beauty The Canadian, or the Royal Canadian Pacific which carried a cigar-puffing Sir Winston Churchill and Queen Elizabeth II when she was a young princess.
Travelling onboard the Rocky Mountaineer is an unforgettable experience, considered by many to be, a trip of a lifetime. The two-day rail journey recaptures the romance of rail travel as it follows the historic train route constructed over 100 years ago through Canada’s West and the Canadian Rockies, uniting the country. The entire train ride takes place during daylight hours to ensure you enjoy every minute of the breathtaking scenery of glacier-fed lakes, majestic mountains ranges and ferocious rivers.

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