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Canada’s tourism is supported by provincial and regional organizations across 13 provinces and territories. 1000towns complements their work by connecting travellers with small communities coast to coast — the towns that don’t have their own marketing budgets but deserve to be found.

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Castor’s Letters

“I travel small Canadian towns. The kind most people drive past. I send a letter every Monday about what I notice.”

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

Marie Dressler | Hollywood’s Star
📍 Cobourg, Ontario
Marie Dressler | Hollywood’s Star
From Cobourg, Ontario Marie Dressler is one of the greatest comediennes of her generation and one of Hollywood’s best-loved stars. Born in 1868 in Cobourg,…
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James Naismith | Basketball Inventor
📍 Almonte, Ontario
James Naismith | Basketball Inventor
From Almonte, Ontario James Naismith was a physical educator, physician, chaplain, sports coach and innovator. He invented the game of basketball at age 30 in…
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Bruce Ridpath | 1911 Stanley Cup Champion
📍 Selwyn, Ontario
Bruce Ridpath | 1911 Stanley Cup Champion
From Lakefield (Selwyn now), Ontario David Bruce Ridpath was a professional ice hockey player and general manager. Born in 1884 in Lakefield, Ontario Died in 1925…
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pj johnson | Yukon Poet Laureate
📍 Whitehorse, Yukon
pj johnson | Yukon Poet Laureate
On Canada Day, July 1st, 1994, pj johnson was honoured to be invested as the first official Yukon Poet Laureate in Canada.
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Franklin Carmichael | The Group of Seven
📍 Orillia, Ontario
Franklin Carmichael | The Group of Seven
From Orillia ON Franklin Carmichael was a Canadian artist, the youngest original member of the Group of Seven. Born in 1890 in Orillia, Ontario Died…
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Stephen Leacock | Humorist
📍 Sutton, Ontario
Stephen Leacock | Humorist
From Sutton, Orillia ON Stephen P. H Butler Leacock was the best-known English-speaking humorist in the world between the years 1915 and 1925. Born in…
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The trips you can't plan from a search engine. One painter's Ontario. A waterway traced lock by lock. The birthplace of Cirque du Soleil. Curated Canadian stories, mapped for the modern road-tripper — with interactive routes, stop-by-stop plans, and the places search engines miss.

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Cirque du Soleil’s Quebec
The places that painted Canada’s landscape painter — Claremont to Canoe Lake, one small town at a time.

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Trent-Severn Waterway
A lock-by-lock guide to Ontario’s 386 km National Historic waterway — by boat, or visited town-by-town by car.

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Tom Thomson’s Ontario
The places that painted Canada’s landscape painter — Claremont to Canoe Lake, one small town at a time.

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