10 WAYS CANADA IS COOL! - Toronto What makes Canada Cool? Families planning travel can discover hundreds of intriguing destinations that answer that question, by exploring the CANADA COOL map at Canadacool.com. Created by Canadian travel journalist Lucy Izon, the continually expanding online map leads travellers to intriguing sites nationwide that answer the question: What Makes Canada Cool? Some sites are quirky, some are connected to events where Canada has influenced or impacted the rest of the world. Here are ten cool things to do as you explore Canada this summer, taken from the Canada Cool Map: 1. Listen to west coast Orca whales live over the internet at Orca-Live.net, then kayak with them off Vancouver Island, BC. 2. Discover a site near Jasper, AB, where a secret WWII military project built a prototype aircraft carrier - made of ice! 3. Find the 41 and 26-storey office towers in Toronto that have 14,000 windows coated with 24-carat gold. 4. See more snakes at a glance than anywhere else in the world at Manitoba’s Narcisse Snake Dens (sunny days, early May.) 5. At Science North, learn about Sudbury’s Neutrino Observatory, 2 km beneath the surface of the earth. So cool, physicist Stephan Hawking visited. 6. Enjoy 350 free performances at the World’s Biggest Jazz Festival (according to Guinness World Records), in Montreal Quebec. 7. Walk on the bottom of the ocean at Hopewell Rocks, after the world’s highest tides pull out of the Bay of Fundy, NB. 8. Learn about seaweed (Irish Moss) being used in cosmetics, cheese and ice cream, at Prince Edward Island National Park. 9. See the world’s smallest dinosaur footprints in Parrsboro, NS. 10. Check out where the Vikings visited a 1000 years ago - L'Anse aux Meadows, NF. Find out more at CanadaCool.com - 30 -
For more information contact: Lucy Izon (416) 964-2070 lucy@canadacool.com |