Introduction
While Canada is a significantly smaller nation than the United States by raw population counts, Canadian tourist attractions, where such sites exist, are often set up relatively similar to tourist attractions in the United States, except that the attractions in much of Canada are largely more attuned to British influence as Canada was British more recently than the United States was.
Tourist Destinations
The numerous national parks in Western Canada, particularly Banff and surrounding parklands, are notable for the Canadian Rockies and the formations of significant mountainous textures and exceptionally rugged terrain that happens to be located on the Canadian side of the border. For much of the Canadian Rockies, the parklands represent the primary tourist attractions, with the facilities and institutions for tourists often identified as secondary features.
In Eastern Canada, including the Maritimes, the scenic views are also of particular interest, though not necessarily for reasons nearly as dramatic as in the Canadian Rockies. The northern tip of Newfoundland is home to L’Anse aux Meadows, a verified Norse settlement located on the northern edge of the island and home to the former attempted colony of Vinland. Vinland was supposedly the lost settlement of the Vikings in North America beyond the scope of Greenland 🇬🇱, which has for centuries (since approximately the sixteenth century) not been home to a Greenlandic Norse population though remains integrated into the Nordic region.
Though Greenland is not part of Canada, the Canadian Arctic archipelago is also of cultural and historical significance to the region as well as to a number of surrounding regions, including, but not limited to, Alert (the northernmost settlement), Iqaluit (the capital of Nunavut), Rankin Inlet (though on the mainland), and the majority of locales elsewhere in the region, many uninhabited or unincorporated by nature.
Tourism Tips
Like in the United States, museums typically cover art, culture, society, history, and a plethora of other topics associated with the country and region in question. However, the Canadian versions of attractions often refer to specific provinces and territories, with the word “Royal” often appearing in names of provincial museums, especially in Western Canada. In the Province of Ontario, where the Commonwealth status is especially important, many tourist attractions may appear to resemble a mix of American and British tourist attractions, while remaining fully attached to Canadian custom and culture.
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