Family Archives - The Great Canadian Bucket List

08
09/2019

Canada’s Roadside Attractions

| Alberta, British Columbia, Commentary, Family, Gallery, History, Manitoba, Quirky, Roadtrip, Saskatchewan, Travel Tips

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From a profitable nickel and the USS Enterprise, family hotels to giant birds, hit the brakes for a brief look at some of Canada's Roadside Attractions.

03
08/2019

Riding the Pipe Mountain Coaster

By Robin Esrock

| Adventure, British Columbia, Family, Outdoors, Quirky, Ski, Summer

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Revelstoke Mountain Resort installed its 1.4 kilometre-long Pipe Mountain Coaster in 2016, and this thrilling ride has quickly become the town's must-do, family friendly attraction in the summer.

01
07/2019

Canada is not Australia

By Robin Esrock

| Commentary, Family, New Brunswick, Quirky

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For all the comments that Australia is Canada with better weather, I discovered this is not at all the case. For Canada Day, the guy who wrote the bestselling books about travel in both Canada and Australia muses on why Canada is not Australia.

01
05/2019

Outrun the World’s Highest Tide

By Robin Esrock

| Adventure, Family, Festivals, Nova Scotia, Outdoors, Quirky, Summer

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The Bay of Fundy is home to the world's highest tide. Not Since Moses has there been a race against such a powerful foe, hence the name of this quirky five and ten kilometre annual run along Five Islands in Nova Scotia.

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