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Nova Scotia

Lunenburg

UNESCO World Heritage town with colourful waterfront buildings, the Fisheries Museum, and the home port of the Bluenose.

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Quebec

Baie-Saint-Paul

Artistic town known as the birthplace of Cirque du Soleil, filled with galleries, murals, and St. Lawrence views.

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Ontario

Elora

Limestone gorge, artist studios, and Ontario's prettiest main street — 90 minutes from Toronto.

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Yukon

Dawson City

<p data-start="0" data-end="132">Legendary Gold Rush town with preserved frontier streets, wooden boardwalks, and Klondike history.</p>

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Alberta

Canmore

Mountain town at the gateway to Banff — hiking, skiing, and the 1988 Olympic Nordic Centre.

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Ontario

Parry Sound

Gateway to 30,000 Islands — Bobby Orr's hometown on the shore of Georgian Bay.

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British Columbia

Fernie

Legendary powder town in the Elk Valley — skiing, culture, craft beer, and dramatic Rocky Mountain scenery.

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Nova Scotia

Wolfville

University town in the Annapolis Valley with wineries, Acadia campus, and the home of a Father of Confederation.

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PEOPLE of small towns

The people who put small towns on the map

Olympic champions, literary legends, artists, and trailblazers — all from towns you can visit today

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📍 Parry Sound, Ontario

Megan Oldham | Olympic Freestyle Skiing Champion

Parry Sound's newest Olympic champion — gold in big air, bronze in slopestyle, and the whole town showed up to welcome her home.

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📍 Florenceville, New Brunswick

Wallace McCain | McCain Foods Limited Founder

From Florenceville, New Brunswick G. Wallace F. McCain was a co-founder of the frozen foods empire McCain Foods Limited with his brother Harrison McCain. Born…

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📍 Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

William Dodge Lovitt | Shipowner

From Yarmouth, Nova Scotia In the late 1800s, William D. Lovitt was one of Yarmouth’s most prominent shipowners. Born in 1834 Died in 1894 William…

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📍 Yorkton, Saskatchewan

Roman Kroitor | IMAX Founder

From Yorkton, Saskatchewan Roman Kroitor was a filmmaker known as a co-founder of IMAX and as the creator of the Sandde hand-drawn stereoscopic animation system.…

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📍 Norwich, Ontario

Emily Stowe | First Female Doctor

From Norwich, Ontario Dr. Emily Howard Stowe was the first female doctor to practice in Canada and an activist for women’s rights and suffrage. Born in…

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📍 Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta

Evangeline Lilly | Actress

From Fort Saskatchewan to Hollywood — star of Lost and the Marvel universe, raised in small-town Alberta before the world found her.

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Annual Visitors

10+3

Provinces & Territories

8,300+

Pages of Content

2016

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Canada's coast-to-coast small-town tourism platform.

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