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Georgian Bay
CG Traveller brings you four great sites with more information on the Parry Sound and 30,000 Islands region of Georgian Bay
Bald Eagles
The Brackendale Art Gallery is the online home of the festival, which is entering its 18th year. The site tells the story of
the historic count and the movement to create the Brackendale Bald Eagle Reserve, which is now a Class A park.
There is lots of information about the monthlong celebration that has grown up around the annual count of the big birds.
Banff Film Festival
The Banff Centre is the home site of the world-renowned festivals that celebrate people in high places. The film festival was the original mountain event, but you can wander this site for all kinds of info on the centre itself, the mountain
book festival and other events related to mountain culture, including the schedule for the World Tour of selected films.
Beaches of PEI
CG Traveller brings you some great sites with more information on the culture of Prince Edward Island's beaches.
Christmas Bird Count
Ever since an American ornithologist asked amateur birders to play a role in tracking avian migrants in 1900, the Christmas Bird Count (CBC) has been an important monitoring census. Bird Studies Canada is the number-one organization in this country responsible for the annual event. Now that the CBC is in its second century, electronic media are helping birders keep tabs on their fine-feathered friends. Everything you need to know to participate is right here on the site. There are details and contact names for coordinators
across the country plus the important database, entry forms and compiler's manual for anyone interested in participating.
Cycling Cape Breton
CG Traveller brings you five web links with great information that will help you plan a trip to Cape Breton Island.
Charlottetown
CG Traveller brings you five web links where you can find great information on Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
Polar Bear Capital
CG Traveller brings you five web links with great information on the Polar Bear Capital of the World.
Winter Rock Climbing - Quebec
Festiglace du Québec is the online home of the only modern climbing competition held on natural rock and ice. The site provides information on the event and its competitions, the courses and workshop offerings. From obscure beginnings, Festiglace has emerged as a high-profile gathering - now in its 7th year - for an international cast of climbing
celebrities and devoted spectators. This is an interactive website where you can research and sign-up for scheduled events.
Cross-Country Ski Marathon
Welcome to the home site home of the Canadian Ski Marathon. The online presence of this great cross-country tradition
tells its wonderful history and provides all the support information you need, such as trail maps, registration forms,
conditions and accommodation rates and services, so you can participate in the world's longest ski marathon.
Cycling PEI
CG Traveller brings you some great sites on cycling in Prince Edward Island.
Epicurean Adventures
The Royal Canadian Pacific offers a suite of luxury food and wine getaways aboard refurbished coaches that allow you to relax each evening amid the red leather luxury of a classic lounge car. Trips, which head to points west of Calgary through Canada's Rockies, guarantee you'll experience the royal treatment aboard elite carriages built in the 1900s. In addition to private charters and bookings, the Royal Canadian Pacific schedule includes a half-dozen upscale weeklong trips such as the Royal Canadian Rockies Experience, Royal Clubhouse Golf Tour, Fly-Fishing Adventure, Culinary Wine and Music Experience, and Train Trails and Spa Adventure. If a week aboard a
luxury train isn't enough, you can spend 22 days on a cross-Canada tour on the TransCanada Steam Express. Pricetag — $26, 000.
PEI's French Flair
CG Traveller brings you five great sites with more information on Acadian culture of Prince Edward Island.
Haida Gwaii
CG Traveller brings you four great sites with more info on Haida heritage and Haida Gwaii, British Columbia.
Holidays on Horseback
CG Traveller brings you five great sites to help you plan your Western holiday on horseback.
Killarney Provincial Park
CG Traveller brings you four great sites to help you plan a trip to Killarney Provincial Park.
Kluane National Park
CG Traveller brings you four great sites with more information on the Kluane region.
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Learning to Luge
Mount Washington Alpine Resort is home to North America's first dedicated commercial natural-luge course. The 'Discover Luge!'
program includes a mandatory lesson and gear rental (sled and helmet) that introduces eager participants to the sport for a mere
$19. After that rite of initiation, you are free to buy pass and rent equipment so you can whisk down the 300-metre track on
your own.
Heritage in Lunenburg
CG Traveller brings you six great sites with more information that will help you plan a trip to Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
Manitoba Traditions
Le Festival du Voyageur celebrates voyageur heritage at Western Canada's largest winter festival. The festival comes to life
in St. Boniface each February, and the entire program for the 35th edition in 2004 is now posted online. You'll find all the
details of the scheduled activities from fireworks and feasts,
to historical exhibits, live entertainment, world-class snow sculpture, fiddle and jigging contests and more.
Manitoulin Island
CG Traveller brings you five great sites with more information on visiting Manitoulin Island.
Whale Watching - East Coast
CG Traveller brings you five great sites on whale-watching in Newfoundland & Labrador.
Churchill
The Town of Churchill, Manitoba, is the Polar Bear Capital of the World. The official town web site is a great starting
point for planning a trip to the region. Choose 'Tourist Booth' and then 'Tour Information' and you'll find a list of the
town's experienced operators and outfitters who can take you out on the tundra to see the world's largest terrestrial carnivores
at play. Check out other naturalist highlights
— birds, beluga whales and aurora borealis — that make Churchill a year-round tourist destination.
Snowmobiling
The Canadian Council of Snowmobile Organizations (CCSO) is the national umbrella organziation for all recreational
snowmobile associations in Canada. Represented in all provinces and territories, the CCSO is setting standards for safety,
ethics, environmental
awareness and responsible snowmobile use, and it plays a major role in the Trans Canadian Snowmobile Trail (TCST).
Pangnirtung — Fine Art
CG Traveller brings you five great sites with more information about Pangnirtung.
Quebec's Backcountry
Val-David is the home of rock climbing in Canada. It's also a storybook village for outdoor enthusiasts each winter.
This site provides all kinds of information on supreme skiing, Quebec culture and the region's amenieties.
Red Mountain Skiing
Red Mountain, outside Rossland, British Columbia, was recently ranked among The Top 5 Steeps by Skiing Magazine.
Why? Because it's a big-time mountain experience boasting lots of space, loads of wilderness and few people.
Seabird Sanctuaries - Nfld.
CG Traveller brings you great sites with information on birding in Newfoundland & Labrador.
Silver Star Mountain Resort
Even a cursory review of this website gives you everything you need to understand why Silver Star, located 22 kilometres
northeast of Vernon,
British Columbia, at the top of the Okanagan Valley, has been named North America's Best Family Resort.
Northern Baffin Island
CG Traveller brings you some great sites with more information on travelling to northern Baffin Island.
Ski and Snowboard Week
National Ski & Snowboard Week began more than 20 years ago as a celebration of
Canada's winter season. Each year, more than 175,000 people participate across the country.
Royal St. John's Regatta
CG Traveller brings you some great sites with more information on the Royal St. John's Regatta.
Cool Summer Schools
CG Traveller brings you five web links with great information on some of Canada's coolest summer schools.
Sunshine Village
Sunshine Villages's site offers first-time visitors everything they need to know about the mountain,
conditions, rates and accommodations for planning a ski holiday in the Banff region.
Vancouver Polar Bear Swim
The Vancouver Park Board maintains a microsite devoted to the city's polar bear swim, which is an 84-year-old
tradition that has winter-hardy Vancouverites lovingly leaping into English Bay. Brrr! The site offers everything from
history of the venerable
gathering to statistics and how-to safety tips for anyone brave enough to take the plunge into the icy water.
Gourmet Whistler
Cornupcopia is Whistler's annual food and wine event that is attracting attention from across the country.
The website provides a complete 'menu' of the Cornucopia weekend — tastings, themes, celebrity chefs and winemakers —
plus all the logistical support you need to plan a trip. Whistler itself is beautiful enough, but throw in great food,
wine and a celebration with the experts in the field and you've got a whole new excuse to get away.
Winter in the Wilderness
'Adventure for the inquisitive spirit' is the claim to fame of Voyageur Quest. Outside of the summer season's hiking and
canoeing, the company offers Algonquin Park lodge-based holidays all-year-long. In winter, dogsledding, cross-country skiing,
snowhoeing and ice-fishing attract outdoor enthusiasts to the central Ontario wilderness mecca.
While the operators offer a variety of guided trips, the facility is also available for private bookings.
Yukon River Quest
CG Traveller brings you five web links where you can find great information on the Yukon.
Yukon Quest
The Yukon Quest home site offers a thorough look at the past, present and future of this gruelling dogsled challenge
that covers 1,600 kilometres of northern wilderness. Alternating start and finish points between Whitehorse and Fairbanks
each year, the race is a great tradition attracting competitors from around the world. Complete musher profiles,
a live updates and race results make this an exciting and interactive web site for competitors and fans of dogsledding.
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