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2016 Travel Guide to Canada

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TRAVEL GUIDE TO CANADA Taste local cuisine including muskox, reindeer, fresh whitefish, pickerel or Arctic char. Dig into "Eskimo doughnuts" or bannock. Buy some birch syrup to take home. Get a bird's-eye view of the landscape during a flightseeing tour along the legendary South Nahanni River ( www. pc.gc.ca/eng/pn-np/nt/nahanni/visit/ visit3.aspx#air). SCENIC DRIVES Be one of the last people to drive the 185-km (115-mi.) winter road from Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk before it is replaced with an all-weather road in 2018. It is open from late December to late April and links the isolated community of Tuktoyaktuk to the Dempster Highway. Drive it yourself or travel with a local operator ( www.arctic chalet.com). The iconic Dempster Highway, from Dawson City, Yukon to Inuvik, is particu- larly stunning in late summer when the fall colours begin to emerge. Along the way it travels through two mountain ranges, crosses the Arctic Circle once and the Continental Divide three times ( www. travelyukon.com/Plan/Itineraries/ Iconic-Drives/Drive-the-Dempster). Drive into the N.W.T. along the Deh Cho Travel Connection, an 1,800-km (1,120-mi.) loop that travels through northern Alberta, southern N.W.T. and northern British Columbia as it links the Mackenzie, Liard and Alaska highways ( www.dehchotravel. ca). Information on road conditions is available on-line (www.dot.gov.nt.ca/ highways/highway-conditions). FAMILY FUN Pitch a tent in a territorial park and enjoy frolicking at the beach (www.nwtparks.ca). Join in the Circus of Science's interactive activities for kids, watch model rockets being launched, participate in practical workshops and science experiments and, once the sun sets, gaze at the stars in the world's largest Dark Sky Preserve, during the annual Thebacha & Wood Buffalo Dark Sky Festival in late August ( www. tawbas.ca). PARK PICK WOOD BUFFALO NATIONAL PARK at 44,807 sq. km (17,300 sq. mi.), Wood Buffalo national Park is Canada's largest national park and the world's largest Dark Sky Preserve. it is home to nesting whooping cranes, which are north america's tallest bird, and wood bison, the continent's largest land mammal. Drive to fort Smith, the gateway to the park. Walk barefoot on the Salt Plains and gaze over the landscape from the comfort of a pair of red chairs. Squish your toes in the clay at Grosbeak Lake as your eyes wander over the moonscape around you. Go for a swim in the aqua- marine waters of Pine Lake (www. pc.gc.ca/woodbu«alo). More info on National Parks and Historic Sites: www.pc.gc.ca • 1-888-773-8888 simpsonair.ca TOLL FREE 1-866-995-2505 TEL. 867-695-2505 simpsonair.nahannimountainlodge SimpsonAir1981 Rugged mountains frame swift waters where gorges and deep canyons cut beside natural hotsprings and thundering Virginia Falls. Experience flight tours, fishing, and wilderness lodging with Simpson Air – the gateway to Canada's first UNESCO World Heritage Site. Talk to us & plan for adventure. N O R T H W E S T T E R R I T O R I E S : Y O U N E E D T O S E E T H I S YOUR NEW FAVOURITE ADVENTURE Spectacular Wilderness… we'll get you there.

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