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Nova Scotia – The Bay of Fundy

Nova Scotia and The Bay of Fundy is a must see when you come to Canada, home to the highest tides in the world with an estimated 100 billion tons of water rolling in and out of the bay twice daily.

One of the best places to see this phenomenon in action is Hopewell Rocks Park. These “flowerpot” rocks are tree-topped rocks only partially visible at high tide. Low tide reveals their delicate, sculpted bases. During low tide it is possible to actually walk on the revealed sea floor. As the tide comes in, footprints left on the flats literally disappear before people’s eyes as the water rises six to eight feet per hour. In some parts of the bay the difference between high and low tide can be as much as 46 feet (14 m).

Whale enthusiasts will appreciate the bay area for the variety of marine mammals attracted to its krill-rich waters during the summer months. Up to fifteen different species of toothed and baleen whales make their summer home in the waters just outside the bay. Whale-watching tours depart daily from June to October each year.

For a glimpse into the planetary past, make a trip up the bay to the Joggins Fossil Cliffs. These sandstone cliffs are rich with 300 million year-old fossils of everything from invertebrates to lizards and the trees of the primordial forest they lived in. The powerful tides in the Bay of Fundy are constantly eroding the cliffs, constantly revealing more fossils.

No visit to the Bay of Fundy would be complete without seeing the Reversing Falls of St. John. The St. John River flows into the bay through a series of rapids. When the bay’s legendary high tide occurs, the flow of sea water forces the river water back up its course, reversing the direction of the falls.

Nova Scotia and The Bay of Fundy is home to the highest tides in the world, The Bay of Fundy is a 170 mile (270 km) long ocean bay that stretches between the provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia on Canada’s east coast.

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Toronto – City Of The Arts

Toronto, capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario, is an art enthusiast’s dream. The city, the fifth largest in North America, is home to several major galleries and museums.

The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is the largest in Canada with more than 40 galleries. The museum displays both art works and natural history items and has the largest collection of avian and mammalian skeletons in the world. The museum’s Far East Collection, the largest collection of far eastern artifacts outside of China, is anchored by the Ming Tomb, a complete seventeenth century warriors tomb and the only complete Chinese tomb in the West.

The Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art was, at one time affiliated with the Royal Ontario Museum. This specialized museum is home to more than 2,000 pieces of ceramic art. Their collection features everything from pre-Columbian pottery to classic European porcelains of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

The Art Gallery of Toronto has strong collections of European and Canadian art. One of the main attractions of the Gallery is its collection of Henry Moore sculptures, one of the largest in the world. Henry Moore personally designed the exhibit space for this collection in 1974.

The Textile Museum of Canada has celebrated for more than thirty years of international fiber art. Their permanent collection contains more than 12,000 textiles, from pieces as much as 2000 years old to modern designs, with samples from more than 200 regions of the world.

The Bata Shoe Museum is housed in a whimsical, shoebox-shaped building designed by architect Raymond Moriyama. The museum is home to a 4,500-piece, semi-permanent “History of Shoes” exhibit that highlights examples of footwear spanning time and the globe, from ancient Egyptian sandals to the sleekly sexy stilettos of 1990s. The Bata also has three additional galleries that display special exhibits throughout the year.

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Travel Tips Video: St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

©2010 Teri Champigny, Teri’s Travel Tips.

St. Patrick’s Day is a huge event not only in Ireland but with the Irish around the world as well. While the Emerald Isle boasts a population of about 5 million, it’s estimated there are 90 million Irish descendants around the globe. And boy, does that number swell on St Paddy’s Day!

Nowhere is that as evident as in parts of North America, where cities like New York and Boston in the US and Montreal & Toronto in Canada have large Irish populations and histories heavily influenced by the Irish in their communities. In Toronto, for example, the population in the 1840′s was about 10,000 before the Great Irish Potato Famine drove nearly 20,000 to emigrate from Ireland to Toronto.

These days the Toronto Irish are flourishing, and many more residents of the world’s most multi-cultural city are ‘Irish for a day’ on St Patrick’s Day, as you can see from this video Doug & I shot there in 2009:

Enjoy this Travel Tips video of the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and DO try to make it to the parade live at least once when visiting Toronto (or if you live in Toronto!) as it is truly a great party… Just watch out for the green beer afterwards in the city’s many Irish pubs!

St. Patrick’s Day is March 17th each year, with very few exceptions, and the Toronto St. Patrick’s Day Parade is held on the closest Sunday. To find out when this/next year’s parade will be held visit the St. Patrick’s Parade Society of Toronto website, official hosts of the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Toronto.

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Niagara Falls Waterparks

Niagara Falls is a great place to be. In Niagara Falls, Ontario there are great places to go for family fun and it can be year round. There are three waterparks here in Niagara Falls. This is great, because it makes enjoyment of Niagara Falls a year round activity. Niagara Falls is wonderful place to be at any time of the year.

Niagara Falls Waterparks continues here…

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