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985

towns listed

132K

Annual Visitors

10+3

Provinces & Territories

8,300+

Pages of Content

2016

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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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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

Featured Megan Oldham | Olympic Freestyle Skiing Champion
📍 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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Mark Carney | Prime Minister of Canada
Mark Carney | Prime Minister of Canada
Born in Fort Smith. Governor of the Bank of Canada, Governor of the Bank of England — the first non-Briton to hold the role in…
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Graham Fraser | Industrialist
📍 New Glasgow, Nova Scotia
Graham Fraser | Industrialist
From New Glasgow, Nova Scotia Graham Fraser was an industrialist and community leader from Nova Scotia. Born in 1846 in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia Died…
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Alan Bradley | Flavia de Luce Author
📍 Cobourg, Ontario
Alan Bradley | Flavia de Luce Author
From Cobourg, Ontario Alan Bradley is the New York Times bestselling author of many short stories, children’s stories, newspaper columns. His the Flavia de Luce…
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Ron Joyce | Tim Hortons Co-Founder
📍 Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia
Ron Joyce | Tim Hortons Co-Founder
From: Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia Ronald V. Joyce is best known as the entrepreneur who, in 1964, invested in the first Tim Hortons donut shop in…
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Joe O’Brien | Harness Horseman
📍 Alberton, Prince Edward Island
Joe O’Brien | Harness Horseman
Called "Little Joe" — perhaps the greatest harness racing driver the world has ever seen. Canada's O'Brien Awards are named after him.
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