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8,500+

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2016

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We’ve mapped 993 small communities across Canada. The last seven, we’d like to choose with you — tell us which town belongs on the map, and why it’s worth the trip.

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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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Weekly column · every Monday

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

W. A. Hewitt | Hockey Innovator
📍 Cobourg, Ontario
W. A. Hewitt | Hockey Innovator
From Cobourg, Ontario William Abraham Hewitt was a leading sports journalist, administrator and innovator. Born in 1875 in Cobourg, Ontario Died in 1966 Born in…
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Mike Babcock | Hockey Coach
📍 Manitouwadge, Ontario
Mike Babcock | Hockey Coach
From Manitouwadge, Ontario Michael “Mike” Babcock Jr. is a Stanley Cup and Olympic Gold Medal Winning Hockey Coach. Born in 1963 in Manitouwadge, Ontario Mike…
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Sidney Crosby | Golden Goal Author
📍 Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia
Sidney Crosby | Golden Goal Author
Born and raised in Cole Harbour — three Stanley Cups, two Olympic golds, and a hockey school back home every summer where it all started.
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Grant Fuhr | Hockey Goalie
📍 Spruce Grove, Alberta
Grant Fuhr | Hockey Goalie
From Spruce Grove, Alberta Grant Fuhr was one of the National Hockey League’s best-ever goalies and a member of the outstanding Edmonton Oilers lineup of…
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K. C. Irving | Industrialist
📍 Bouctouche, New Brunswick
K. C. Irving | Industrialist
Built a gas station and a family sawmill into one of Canada's largest private business empires — oil, forestry, shipbuilding, and media across the Maritimes.
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James William Carmichael | Shipbuilder
📍 New Glasgow, Nova Scotia
James William Carmichael | Shipbuilder
From New Glasgow, Nova Scotia James William Carmichael was a shipbuilder-owner, merchant, politician. Born in 1819 in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia Died in 1903 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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