TOP 10
Cross-Canada Bucket List
Save a little money this summer with a homegrown getaway—and
check these iconic Canadian experiences off your list!
BY CRAIG MOY
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SURFER: KYLER VOS/TOURISM TOFINO; BAUTISTA: TORONTO BLUE JAYS; GOLD PANNER: KLONDIKE VISITORS ASSOCIATION
Tofino’s beaches
boast some
sweet swells
1 Hang Ten in Tofino
Malibu and Maui aren’t the only places
to get your surf on. The sport is popular
up and down the Pacific (and Atlantic)
coast. Tofino, B.C.’s 35 kilometres of
beach make it ideal for wave-riders,
though you’ll want to wear a wetsuit.
Chesterman Beach is good for beginner
longboarders, while Cox Bay boasts the
most consistent swells in summer.
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2 Cheer on
frontier experiences,
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the Blue Jays
including Brewster
in Toronto
Adventures’ fourhour horse ride from
It’s a fantastic time
Lake Louise to the
to be a baseball fan
Plain of Six Glaciers
in this country. The
Tea House, a circaToronto Blue Jays
1924 cabin built by
reclaimed the mantle
Explore the Rockies on horseback
Swiss mountaineers.
of “Canada’s Team”
The morning or afterwith last year’s thrillnoon expedition passes through mouning playoff performance and they’ll
tains and sub-alpine forest—as well
hope to be even better in 2016. When
as the Victoria ice field and other
the Rogers Centre is filled to capacity,
breathtaking glaciers—as you ascend
it’s impossible not to get caught
to the secluded cabin.
up in the excitement of a Jose
Bautista homer or Marcus
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Stroman strikeout.
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4 Pan for gold
in Dawson City
In 1896, the
Klondike Gold
Rush brought more
than 100,000 prospectors to Dawson »
3 Horseback ride around
Blue Jays slugger
Jose Bautista
glaciers in Banff
It’s not quite the “Wild” West any
longer, but the Alberta Rockies
still offer some unforgettable
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SUMMER 2016
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