Travel & Places

About "Travel & Places"

Inspiration for exploring Canadian places and cultures and other favourite destinations through spectacular storytelling and photography, insider travel tips and service information, news and reviews.

Filmmaker Dianne Whelan has become the first person to complete the Trans Canada Trail in its entirety following a six-year odyssey of walking, paddling and snowshoeing.

Six years, 470 hours of film, 100 journals, 24,000 kilometres: Tracing the Trans Canada Trail

Filmmaker Dianne Whelan has become the first person to complete the Trans Canada Trail in its entirety. Here, she shares insights from her epic cross-country journey.

The First Peoples' Interactive Map has 18 layers and showcases art, culture and language.

The First Peoples' Interactive Map has 18 layers and showcases art, culture and language.

First Peoples' Map of B.C.: New interactive map celebrates Indigenous cultures and language

The 18-layer First Peoples' map of BC focuses on language, art and heritage

Illustration of Peter Mansbridge and the Northwest Passage

Peter Mansbridge at the Northwest Passage. (Illustration: Jacqui Oakley/Can Geo)

Illustration: Jacqui Oakley/Can Geo

Our Country: Peter Mansbridge on his love for the North

The retired news anchor recalls the emotions he felt while sailing through the Northwest Passage

Photo: Andrew Ly

Photo: Andrew Ly

Canadian Tourism Week underway!

The tourism industry is calling on Canadians to pledge to travel in Canada once restrictions are lifted

Montreal's Mont Royal Park is part of the new Cornerstone national network of urban parks. (Photo: Javier Frutos/Can Geo)

Mont Royal Park Montreal

Urban parks unite! Parks in Montreal, Vancouver and Toronto set to join forces

The first-of-its-kind partnership will bolster city parks at a time when Canadians need them most

Photo: Brady Corps/Can Geo Photo Club

Photo: Brady Corps/Can Geo Photo Club

Excerpt from This One Wild Life: A mother-daughter wilderness memoir

Author Angie Abdou’s novel explores parenting and marriage in a summer of unforeseen outcomes and growth

Excerpt from The Way Of The Gardener

A botanical journey along the famous Camino de Santiago pilgrimmage route by former CBC Radio columnist and enthusiastic gardener Lyndon Penner

Historian C. Brad Faught's new book brings clarity to Edmund Allenby's decisive impact on British imperial policy in today's Middle East. (Photo: Courtesy of C. Brad Faught; Book cover: Courtesy of I.B. Tauris)

Allenby: Making of the Modern Middle East by C. Brad Faught

Exclusive excerpt from Allenby: Making the Modern Middle East

Insights from historian C. Brad Faught's new book on Edmund Allenby, the principal British military figure in the Middle East during the First World War.