The book
9 Canadian Cities
is available on a discount
A description is as follows:
Canada is the world’s second-largest country and is justly famous for its great outdoors. This does not mean visitors should ignore the cities. Vancouver and Toronto are the best-known cities and are covered in great detail elsewhere.
I’ve concentrated on nine cities in western and central Canada, each of which is worth a few days of your time. The journey I describe took the best part of 5 weeks and Montreal was the furthest point east that I visited. The pleasures of Quebec City and The Maritimes await. It’s worth mentioning that it’s three thousand miles by road from Victoria to Montreal in a more or less straight line. That’s a long way, a similar distance to the mileage from London to the shores of the Caspian Sea.
All the cities are close to magnificently varied and beautiful countryside, so if your urban surroundings become too much, it’s easy to get out into the natural sprawl of the country.
This book is a travelogue and not a travel guide. I went to all the places I describe and tried to see as much as I could, but you can’t see everything and perhaps you shouldn’t always try as it’s good to leave a few places to see on your next visit.
I’ve added the size of each province and territory as well as the population to show how vast the country is and how low the population density is.