Canada

I love visiting Canada. It's a little too cold for me to want to live there, but I love visiting.

Here are the trips I've made so far:

Gaspé

By: Paul S. Cilwa	Occurred: 8/1/1993		Page Views: 1028
Topics: #Canada #GaspéPeninsula #PercéRock #St.LawrenceRiver #Travel
A tour around the periphery of Canada's beautiful Gaspé Peninsula.

Having previously taken my oldest daughter, Dorothy, on a vacation to Grand Canyon, it was now time to move down the line to my second daughter, Karen, who expressed a desire to visit "another country". Of course, she was hoping for Paris. But budgetary constraints forced us to settle for Quebec, Canada, which I explained was "just like France, minus the nine-hour plane flight."

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Jasper National Park

By: Paul S. Cilwa	Occurred: 11/13/1996		Page Views: 971
Topics: #Places #Canada #JasperNationalPark
A visit to Canada's Jasper National Park and the Promenade of Glaciers.

In November, 1996, I helped some friends move from Connecticut to Washington state by driving one of their vehicles. When the job was done, I had to get back home to New Hampshire, which I decided to do by taking Canada's Via Rail home through the Canadian Rockies. I didn't make the trip straight through, however; I got off at Jasper, rented a car, and made my first visit to Banff by driving through the Jasper National Park and along the Promenade of Glaciers. Here are the photos of that breathtaking trip.

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