Canada

CANADA

FACTS:



Visas: Most western visitors don't need a visa to Full country name: Canada

visit Canada. Travelers from South Africa, China,

North Korea, Taiwan, Eastern European and Area: 9,976,000 sq km (3.9 million sq mi)

developing countries do require them. Entry stamps

for visits of up to six months are free. Population: 31,280,000



Health risks: Giardia, Rabies and Lyme Disease (in Capital city: Ottawa (pop: 1,010,500)

wooded regions)

People: British descent (28%), French descent

Time: There are six time zones ranging from (23%), Italian descent (3%), aboriginal peoples (2%),

Newfoundland Standard Time in the East (GMT/UTC plus significant minorities of German, Ukrainian,

-3.5) to Pacific Standard Time in the West Dutch, Greek, Polish and Chinese descent

(GMT/UTC -8). During Daylight Saving Time (Apr-

Oct), the range is -2.5 to -7) Languages: English, French and 53 native

languages

Electricity: 110/120V 60Hz

Religion: Catholic (45%), Protestant (36%) and

Weights & measures: Metric minorities from most of the world's major religions



Currency: Canadian dollar



Spring, summer and autumn are all ideal for touring, though if you want to ski you'll naturally have to come in

winter or early spring. For campers and those who want to visit the far north, the summer months of July and

August are best. Summer is also when many of the country's festivals take place. Note that the peak tourist

season is between mid-June and mid-September. Although spring and autumn have fewer crowds, lower

prices and a more relaxed pace than the summer months, some visitor-oriented facilities and attractions

may be closed during these shoulder seasons.



Attractions

Ottawa central guesthouses, most of them with heritage

Canada's capital sprawls along the southern bank details of some sort. Motels are clustered along

of the Ottawa River, on the eastern tip of Ontario. Rideau St in the east, and along Carling Ave on

As you'd expect, it's a government town, the western side of town. Byward Market, east of

dominated physically and spiritually by the neo- the canal, has a stack of cheap eateries, and

Gothic Parliament Buildings. You'll hear a fair western downtown is the place to go for more

amount of French spoken here, as federal upmarket eating.

government workers are required to be bilingual.

There's not a heap of exciting things to do in Toronto

Ottawa - other than marvel at being in a national Canada's largest city has long since shrugged off

capital - but the air's clean, the streets are wide, its frightfully proper, goody-two-shoes tag, thanks

there are lots of public parks and the people seem to a healthy dose of multiculturalism. You'll hear a

happy and healthy as they jog or cycle their way babble of more than 100 languages spoken on

to work. The city has the usual plethora of Toronto's streets, and it's estimated that 40% of

impressive buildings common to capital cities: the the population was born overseas - no wonder

War Museum (with a life-sized replica of a WWI UNESCO voted it the world's most diverse city!

trench), the Royal Mint, various grand old homes Toronto's most obvious symbol is the CN Tower,

inhabited by ministers of state and a swag of the world's tallest freestanding structure.

museums to do justice to the country's icons: Harbourfront, the (perhaps overly) renovated

nature, aviation, science and technology, skiing docklands area lining Lake Ontario, is a fine place

and agriculture. Ottawa is also home to Canada's for an outdoor wander or meal in a refurbished

premier art collection, the National Gallery, warehouse. For indoors entertainment the city

displaying an enormous array of North American has a clutch of great museums, from killer

and European works. In summer the city is dotted clodhoppers at the Bata Shoe Museum to the

with the familiar red coats of the Royal Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame, housed in a beautiful old

Mounties. bank building. Some of Toronto's best-preserved

historic buildings can be found in York Old Town,

Ottawa's downtown district is divided into eastern and there's a peerless collection of fine Victorian

and western portions by the Rideau Canal. The domestic architecture in Cabbagetown. And a

eastern section has a very useful pocket of

mere two-hour's drive away there's one of North and its parklands, and has a bunch of museums

America's top tourist attractions, Niagara Falls. documenting the city's military and cultural

history. The busy, narrow streets of Old Lower

Montreal Town are reached by break-neck staircases or a

Passion and pride run as deep as the waters funicular from Upper Town's heights. Place

around this stylish, bilingual island city. Founded Royale, the lower town's hub, is surrounded with

on religious zeal and a mountain of skinned restaurants, galleries, cafes and the Church of

animals, Montreal has seen its fair share of Notre Dame des Victoires - dating from 1688, it's

bloodshed, but these days the battle between the oldest stone church in the province.

French and English is left to the increasingly

sluggish referendum ballot. Dubbed one of the Halifax

world's most livable cities, Montreal's charm lies in The capital of Nova Scotia, Halifax sits beside

its relaxed atmosphere rather than its star one of the world's largest natural harbors, on the

attractions, and a quiet amble can be as south Atlantic shore. Not surprisingly it's a very

memorable as a visit to the sights. The city is busy port, though often fog-bound, and is home to

named for park-covered Mont Royal, a striking Canada's largest naval base. The city is hilly and

232m (760ft) geological structure that's often green with parks, and the waterside historic

mistaken for an extict vocano, which towers over center is pleasingly compact. The former

the city's central neighborhoods. The cobblestone warehouses of the original commercial district -

streets of Montreal's old precinct are lined with known as the Historic Properties - have been

stone houses, Paris-like cafes and architectural restored and transformed into shops, boutiques

beauties like the 18th-century Pointe à Callière and restaurants. Nearby there's the Maritime

(Museum of Archaeology & History). The city's Museum of the Atlantic, chock full of seagoing

downtown boasts a stash of churches and some memorabilia, including painted figureheads and a

fine museums focusing on Amerindian art, history, Titanic display (Halifax was the base of rescue

architecture and stuffed animals. And when the operations for the tragedy and so nabbed much of

weather turns sour (January in Montreal is the highly sought-after flotsam). There's an

infamous), head for the underground city - a aquarium, and several vessels are moored at the

massive complex of climate-controlled shops and city's wharves, including the beautiful Bluenose II.

eateries, complete with its own Métro stop. The city's past importance as a British military

base is brought to mind by the Citadel, a Halifax

Vancouver landmark and Canada's most visited National

Canada's most beautiful city wins hearts without Historic Site.

even trying. Its hilly terrain and many bridges offer

stunning views of the ocean, bays and Vancouver Winnipeg

itself. The mild climate (by Canadian standards) Canada's wild west begins in the prairie province

and breezy Californian-style atmosphere mean of Manitoba, and Winnipeg is its capital. But this

that even US neighbors rave about the place. culturally alive city is anything but provincial: with

Downtown Vancouver offers a busy patchwork of its US ambience and architecture, it's often

attractions, from the renovated Victorian charm of compared to its grain-handling, transportation

the old Gastown area to the emerald expanses of counterpart, Chicago. The similarities don't end

Stanley Park - one of the world's great city parks. there, as Winnipeg is said to have the windiest

Then there's famed strips of sand and surf like downtown corner on the continent (steer clear of

Wreck Beach and numerous hiking, rafting and the Portage Ave and Main St intersection).

picnicking oases within easy reach of the city Downtown is the place to head for the historic

proper. Nearby Vancouver Island has plenty of sites and museums. The Museum of Man &

natural wonders, including whale watching. Nature is a sight, sound and smell-fest of

Needless to say, summer in Vancouver can get a dioramas that bring the lives of Plains Indians and

bit squeezy. 1920's Winnipeggers alive. The meeting place of

the Red and Assiniboine Rivers has been a

Quebec City people magnet for 600 years and these days it's

Quebec City is the beating heart of French known as The Forks, a riverside recreation area

Canada - its virtually intact European appearance of redeveloped warehouses and factories. The

and ooh-la-la ambience leave Montreal and New Exchange District is one of the city's most

Orleans looking pretty patchy. The entire old interesting areas, crammed with Victorian

section of town is North America's only walled commercial buildings and featuring distinctive old

city, and has been designated a UN World advertising signs. Across the Red River, the

Heritage site. With its cliff-top position overlooking residential district of St Boniface is one of

the St Lawrence River, its old stone buildings and Canada's oldest French communities, and is well

narrow streets, its citadelle and old port, it's no worth an atmospheric wander.

wonder Quebec City is a must-do town. The city

is divided into Upper and Lower segments. The Edmonton

walled Old Upper Town is dominated by the fort

Edmonton is the capital of Alberta, the most destroyed in the Great Fire of 1892, but those that

westerly of the prairie provinces. While Calgary remain include the Murray Premises, a

milks the wild west image, Edmonton prefers to renovated warehouse from the 1840s. Signal

hit the headlines for housing the world's largest Hill, overlooking the town to the east, is the site

shopping and entertainment mall. The city enjoys where Marconi received the first transatlantic

an attractively wooded riverside setting, with wireless message back in 1901. On the other side

parklands following the snaking rhythm of the of the hill is the picturesque fishing port of Quidi

Saskatchewan River. The province's famed Vidi, complete with microbrewery and historic fort.

mineral legacy is explored in the Provincial

Museum, and there's also Canada's largest Nunavut

planetarium, unsurprisingly accompanied by an The immense Northwest Territories were

IMAX theater. The gem south of the river is Old subdivided in 1999 to create Canada's newest

Strathcona, a residential area of gorgeous old territory, the eastern Arctic Inuit region of

buildings dating from 1891, interspersed with Nunavut. It's a wild and isolated place, stretching

cafes, bookshops and buskers. Which it appears north above the tree line from Hudson Bay up to

you won't find in all 48 hectares (118 acres) of the Ellesmere Island National Park, within spitting

West Edmonton Mall, aka the mall that ate distance of the North Pole. The provincial capital

Edmonton's retail life. The 800 shops are tacky is Iqaluit, formerly called Frobisher Bay, on the

and repetitive, the chains are too-well east coast of Baffin Island. It's more a stopping-off

represented, and the 'entertainment' includes an and supply spot than an attraction in itself, though

artificial beach and skating rink - but the climate is there are hiking trails in the vicinity. Most visitors

controlled, and for the frost-bitten denizens of the pass through en route to Auyuittuq National

Canadian Plains that's probably reason enough Park, Canada's third largest national park, and

for the mall's success. one of only a few in the world north of the Arctic

Circle. The pristine wilderness of mountains,

Charlottetown valleys, fjords and meadows is a spectacular

As the capital of Canada's smallest province (the must for experienced hikers, and climbers flock to

delectable Prince Edward Island), it's only fitting Mount Thor (1500m/4920ft), the tallest

that Charlottetown comes across as an old, quiet uninterrupted cliff face on earth.

country town. The issue of Canada's unity was

first officially discussed here in 1864, and

nowadays the tiny capital is known as the Off the Beaten Track

birthplace of Canadian confederation. The pace is

slow, the atmosphere still colonial, and the tree- Rocky Mountains

lined Victorian streets are very easy on the eye. Sprawled along the Alberta-British Columbia

The oldest part of town is clustered around the border, the Rockies are barely contained within

waterfront area, with the usual renovated two gigantic national parks - Banff to the South

buildings and recreation dollar-chasing facilities. A and Jasper to the north. Banff was Canada's first

strident note is sounded by the 1960s modern official wildlife sanctuary and these days the town

structure that houses the Confederation Centre that lent its name to the park is the nation's

of the Arts, which highlights the work of number one resort spot year round. But Jasper

Canadian artists. Prince Edward Island's main National Park has a larger, wilder and less

claim to fame, however, is the town of explored landscape on show.

Cavendish, the setting for Lucy Maud Banff's glorious turquoise Moraine Lake, while in

Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables, followed by danger of suffering cliche overload, is one of

the island's tradition of whopping big lobster Canada's most idyllic natural attractions.

suppers. Connecting Banff and Jasper parks is the

Columbia Icefield, a vast bowl of ice made up of

St John's about 30 glaciers and a remnant of the last Ice

Newfoundland & Labrador's rugged island capital Age. For those not glacially inclined, the Rockies

is St John's, North America's oldest city (1528). offer wildlife walks, swimming, caving, camping,

The hilly town is splendidly located on a series of hiking, canoeing, hot-spring soaking, mountain

terraces rising up from the waterfront - there are climbing and plenty of places to stay.

stairs, stairs everywhere, leading to narrow, Accommodation costs are generally lower at the

winding streets lined with multicolored clapboard Jasper end of this quintessential Canadian

houses. St John's has a quaint, homey feel, and mountain playground.

reminders of its fishing village origins are never

far away. Not coincidentally, the number of The Prairies

drinking establishments in town is huge. The Starting at the foot of the Rockies and heading

legacy of the extinct Beothuk tribe who once lived out long, wide and flat through Alberta,

here is explored at the Newfoundland Museum, Saskatchewan and Manitoba is Canada's

as are the exploits of the Vikings who used to heartland prairie country. Golden fields of wheat,

visit. Many of St John's old buildings were or sunflowers, stretch forever in these parts, and

locals might be heard to sigh 'the Rocky area of lakes, woods and mountains. Deer and

Mountains may be nice but they get in the way of moose amble the backwoods, and the fishing is

the view'. Alberta's busiest prairie attraction is the good - but the real attraction is the hiking. Trails

quaintly named Blackfoot Indian heritage site - traverse the wonderfully named Chic Choc

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, near Fort Mountains, culminating in Mont Jacques Cartier,

Macleod.The 3000 sq km (1170 sq m) Riding at 1270m (4165ft) the highest peak in these parts.

Mountain National Park is a forested oasis in the The hike to the top of the peak is shared by shy

Manitoba prairies, where bison and bike riders woodland caribou, and the alpine scenery and

roam. Next door in Saskatchewan the prairies are views are fantastic. Other climbs include rigorous

scattered with evocatively named national parks, Mont Albert and lakeside Mont Xalibu, a fine

and canoe routes often outnumber roads. Eclectic half-day return walk with superb alpine scenery, a

surprises here include Yorkton - north of the waterfall and views of mountain lakes. The main

Crooked Lake Provincial Park - where onion- entry to the park is from the nearby town of Sainte

domed churches reflect the area's Ukranian Anne des Monts, 300km (185mi) or so north of

heritage. Park your UFO just southeast of Quebec City.

Yorkton, near the tiny town of Rocanville, and

you'll be at one of Canada's most recent crop Lunenburg

circle sites. Running south from Halifax is Nova Scotia's

South Shore, a fogbound, jagged coast dotted

Bay of Fundy with rocky coves, fishing villages and historic

Almost the entire southern edge of New towns. For tourist purposes it's been dubbed the

Brunswick is licked by the constantly rising and Lighthouse Route. The gorgeous little shipbuilding

falling waters of the Bay of Fundy, home to the town of Lunenberg is a UNESCO World Heritage

world's highest tides. The Bay is dotted with the site, and is best-known for having built the racing

peaceful Fundy Isles, where fishing for lobster is schooner Bluenose back in 1921. Fishing has

the most strenuous thing to do. The islands always been big in Lunenburg, and things haven't

include Deer Island, a wooded place of lobster changed too much: Atlantic Canada's largest

wharves, whales and Old Sow, the world's deep-sea fishing fleet sets sail from here, and

second-largest natural tidal whirlpool. North America's biggest fish-processing plant is

Campobello Island is a tranquil summer getaway located in town. Lunenburg still has the flavor and

for wealthy New Englanders, while Grand Manan character of an 18th-century British colonial town,

Island, the largest of the Fundies, has thanks to its tradition of wood-construction

spectacular coastal topography, excellent architecture, maintained since the 1750s. Other

birdwatching, fine hiking trails and sandy than explore the town's Fisheries Museum and

beaches. The town of Saint John, on the Fundy beautiful old churches, the thing to do here is to

Shore, can claim the actor Donald Sutherland as just wander, taking in the wooden houses,

its own, but it's best known for the Moosehead wharves and old-fashioned streetscapes - and of

Brewery tours that are run from mid-June through course finishing up with a dinner of halibut or

August. East of Saint John, a 12km (7.5mi) cliff- haddock, mussels or lobster.

edged stretch of the Fundy Trail Parkway links

the town of St Martins with Big Salmon River - it's L'Anse-aux-Meadows

rugged, wild, drivable, hikable and just gorgeous. Perched on the northernmost tip of

Newfoundland's Northern Peninsula, just north of

Algonquin Park Cape Onion, L'Anse-aux-Meadows is the oldest

East Ontario's Algonquin Park is one of Canada's European habitation site in North America. Led by

best-loved parks, with a dazzling array of hiking Leif Eriksson, son of the Eric the Red, the

and canoeing options. The lake-dotted semi- Scandinavian Vikings crossed the North Atlantic

wilderness has 1600km (992mi) of charted canoe in 1000 AD, becoming the first known Europeans

routes to explore, the waterfall-filled Barron to land in North America. Now protected as a

Canyon to jump around in, and bear, moose and national park, the historic site is set on the edge

wolves to run away from. Hikers can opt for a of the Strait of Belle Isle, across from Labrador, in

half-hour jaunt or spend days crisscrossing the a rough, rocky northern environment. It's a

park's many trails. Algonquin Park is 300km fascinating place, made all the more special by

(186mi) north of Toronto, and is accessible by bus the unobtrusive, low-key approach taken in its

in the summer months. development. The Viking settlement includes

replicas of sod buildings, complete with smoky

Gaspésie Park scent, and there are also eight unearthed

Jutting into the Gulf of St Lawrence, north of New originals of wood and sod. There's an interpretive

Brunswick, the Gaspé Peninsula is often centre to help make sense of things, and if you're

compared with the popular Cape Breton Island of lucky you might be offered some Viking snacks to

Nova Scotia, but it's much less crowded. The sample. You can also take a two-hour tour on a

excellent Gaspésie Park, in the center of the replica Viking ship. For those without

peninsula, is a huge, rugged and undeveloped

transportation, it's a US$30 taxi ride to L'Anse- River which runs 1800km (1115mi) northwards to

aux-Meadows from St Anthony. its delta on the Beaufort Sea. A walk around

Yellowknife's Old Town takes you past wooden

Dawson City miners huts built during the 1934 gold rush, on

When there was gold in them thar hills, Dawson streets with good-luck-turned-sour names like

City was the place to spend it. The city was built Ragged Ass Rd. Visit the Prince of Wales

at the confluence of the Yukon and Klondike Northern Heritage Centre to learn about the

Rivers in the gold rush of 1896. At its height, lifestyles of the Dene and Inuit, or head outdoors

Dawson City was known as 'the Paris of the (weather permitting) for dog-sled tours, visits to a

North', and was home to 38,000 people; these beaver colony or guided fishing trips. The famed

days fewer than 2000 call the city home. It's the Northern Lights (aurora borealis) light up the fall-

most interesting of the Yukon towns, with many to-winter sky October-February with streaks and

attractions remaining from its fleeting but vibrant haloes of green, yellow and rose. In March the

fling with fame and infamy. The protected city celebrates the end of winter with the Caribou

buildings create a real frontier atmosphere, and Carnival, and July explodes with the Festival of

with the Arctic Circle just 240km (150mi) away, the Midnight Sun and the Folk on the Rocks

they're built on permafrost. Tourist season is music festival.

limited to May-September, and sights include

Diamond Tooth Gertie's Gambling Hall, a re-

creation of an 1898 saloon complete with honky-

tonk piano and dancing girls. There's also the History

flamboyant Palace Grand Theatre; a museum

housing 25,000 gold-rush artefacts of one kind or Well before Columbus 'discovered' America in

another; the SS Keno riverboat; the typically rustic 1492, prehistoric tribes from Asia had come

gold-rush cabin that housed Robert Service from across the Bering Strait; and around AD 1000, the

1909 to 1912; a Jack London Interpretative Vikings, the first European vistors, had tried to

Centre; a couple of old mines to explore; and a settle in northern Newfoundland. By the time

graveyard of paddlewheel ferries. Dawson City is subsequent Europeans arrived, Canada's Indian

a 6.5-hour bus ride north of the Yukon capital, tribes had already developed a multitude of

Whitehorse. languages, customs, religious beliefs, trading

patterns, arts and crafts, laws and governments.

Churchill Although a number of European countries were

One of Canada's few accessible northern interested in establishing settlements in the

outposts, remote Churchill's lifeblood is the 1.5- Americas, it was French explorer Jacques Cartier

day train journey linking the town with Winnipeg, who made the first claim on the area surrounding

Manitoba's capital, a mere 1600km (992mi) away the St Lawrence River in 1534.

to the south. Churchill is a major grain-handling

port, but eco-tourism is an increasingly important Another French explorer, Samuel de Champlain,

industry for the town. Despite the subzero founded Quebec City in the early 1600s. In 1663

temperatures and minimal facilities, visitors flock Canada, now home to about 3000 French

to see the region's huge array of arctic wildlife - settlers, became a province of France. Just as the

from polar bears and beluga whales to caribou French started to thrive on the fur trade, the

and Arctic foxes - and to catch a gaudy glimpse of British entered the scene, founding the Hudson's

the aurora borealis. Churchill dubs itself the 'Polar Bay Company in 1670 to add a bit of 'friendly'

Bear Capital of the World', and for a good reason: competition. For a while, the two European

the town sits smack bang in the middle of the cultures coexisted peacefully. Then, in 1745,

animals' migration route, and the cute but lethal British troops captured a French fort in Nova

white bears have been known to wander right Scotia - the struggle for control of the new land

through the township. Tours to the tundra to see was on. The turning point in what became known

the bears are Churchill's star attraction during the as the Seven Years' War arrived when the British

migration season (September-November), defeated the French at Quebec City in 1759. At

followed closely by May-June birdwatching and the Treaty of Paris in 1763, France handed

the June-August spectacle of 3000 beluga whales Canada over to Britain.

moving into the Churchill River.

By the end of the American Revolution (1775-83),

Yellowknife a migration of about 50,000 British 'Loyalists' from

Yellowknife is the place to organise your canoe, the USA created a more even balance between

fishing, kayak, camping, skiing and hiking the French and British populations. After the War

requirements before heading out into the of 1812 - the last war between Canada and the

mountains, forests and treeless tundra of USA, in which Canada was victorious - Britain,

Canada's wild Northwest Territories. The territorial fearful of losing Canada as it had the American

capital sits on the northern shore of Great Slave Colonies, proclaimed the British North America

Lake, catchment basin for the mighty Mackenzie Act (BNA Act) in 1867. The Act established the

Dominion of Canada and became Canada's In 2000, Chrétien held an early election and

equivalent of a constitution. By 1885 the secured his third consecutive term. Meanwhile,

completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway - one the passing of former prime minister Pierre

of Canada's great historical sagas - joined the Trudeau continues to be mourned, and

country's east and west coasts. By 1912 all disappointment over the nation's failed bid to hold

provinces had become part of the central the 2008 Olympics (losing to Beijing) is only

government except Newfoundland, which finally slowly waning. Other issues of concern in the

joined in 1949. early years of the new millennium include

maintaining social programs, high taxes and

After WWI Canada grew slowly in stature and national security in the wake of the September 11

prosperity, becoming a voluntary member of the terrorist attacks on the USA.

Commonwealth in 1931. With the onset of WWII,

Canada once again fought alongside Britain Getting Around

against Germany, though this time it also entered

into defense agreements with the USA, declaring

war on Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Land travel is much cheaper and, if you don't

mind long distances, much more interesting than

In the years after WWII, Canada experienced a flying. The bus network is the most extensive

huge wave of European immigration, with a public transportation system and is generally less

further influx of Asians, Arabs, Indians, Italians, expensive than the limited train service. The

Hispanics and Caribbeans arriving in the 1960s. country's most famous train is the Canadian, a

The postwar era was a period of economic classic 1950s-style beauty that travels from

expansion and prosperity. In 1967 Canada Toronto to Vancouver (Canada's longest

celebrated its 100th anniversary with Expo, the continuous train route), complete with a two-

World's Fair in Montreal, as one of the highlights. storyed windowed 'dome car' for sightseeing. Air

Since 1975, a series of land rights agreements fares are fairly expensive but, if you're strapped

has been signed with Canada's native peoples, for time, the distances you may need to travel are

giving them some control over vast swathes of the so great that you'll probably have to fly. Air

northern portion of the country. Canada (which swallowed Canadian Airlines in

1999) is the major domestic airline. Other smaller

carriers, such as WestJet Airlines, preclude an Air

The social upheavals of the 1960s brought to the Canada monoply.

surface the festering resentments that French-

speaking Quebec had with English-speaking

Canada. In 1976 the Parti Quebecois (PQ), In many ways, the best way to experience the

advocating separatism, won the provincial country is to hire a car. Canadians drive on the

election in Quebec, though sentiments on the right side of the road, as in the USA. A valid

issue have since waxed and waned. In the 1980 driver's license from any country is good in

sovereignty referendum, the separatists were Canada for three months. Canada is so large,

defeated by 60% of the vote. In October 1995, the cyclists find it hard to cover much ground; most

vote was extremely close, with Canada coming people use other forms of transport to move from

within a few thousand votes of breaking up. The region to region and keep their bikes for

prime minister, Jean Chrétien, has since recreational cycling once they're there. And, with

attempted to appease the Quebeckers by so much water around, don't be surprised to find

recognising the province as a 'distinct society'. yourself in a boat at some point.