Ontario & Québec

Visiting Ontario and Québec will give you the opportunity to see some of Canada's most renowned cites, such as Toronto, Ottawa (the capital), Québec City and Montréal. Along with First Nations culture, excellent wildlife viewing opportunities and iconic tourist spots, an itinerary covering these two vast regions combines into a memorable experience.  

Ontario

This huge province stretches all the way from the Great Lakes on the USA border to the frozen shores of Hudson Bay, covering more than one million square kilometres.

Home to Canada’s largest city, Toronto, and its capital, Ottawa, the province also boasts one of the world’s great natural wonders, Niagara Falls.

Charming villages such as Niagara-on-the-Lake and Goderich can be combined with the wineries and birdlife of Pelee Island, the thriving art scene of Prince Edward County and Manitoulin Island’s large First Nations population who hold pow-wows of traditional dancing and singing throughout the summer months.

Killarney and Algonquin Provincial Parks are accessible gems that offer wonderful wildlife viewing, canoeing and fishing. Meanwhile, the remote north and west is a land of forest and tundra, with a vibrant Cree culture and important settler history including the Hudson Bay Company’s first outpost at Moosonee.

Polar Bear Provincial Park covers thousands of square kilometres and visiting these remote areas by plane, train and boat opens up the possibility of excellent wildlife viewing on both land and sea.

With its modern cities, grand landscapes and prolific wildlife, the great expanses of Ontario are a joy to explore.

Québec

Québec offers perhaps the most complete mix of culture, scenery and wildlife of any of Canada’s provinces.

As the largest French-speaking region outside France and Canada’s largest province, Québec offers a Gallic charm all of its own. This manifests itself in a great culinary heritage of sublime restaurants and delightful pavement cafés.

Québec City is North America’s only walled city and Montréal is a sleek and buzzing metropolis, but away from the urban centres Québec Province spreads out across the vast unvisited tracts of tundra on the shores of Hudson Bay to the pastoral and idyllic Eastern Townships.

The Laurentian Mountains are the playground of the Québecois throughout the year, while the St. Lawrence River is the beating heart around which European settlers gained a foothold.

On the south shore the Gaspé Peninsula’s mountains are draped in dense forests that grow down to the water’s edge. The north shore is home to the thriving arts scene, the charming villages of Charlevoix and the grand Saguenay Fjord.

In the far north, expedition cruising departs from Kuujjuaq into the Arctic Circle to see polar bears, narwhal and Inuit culture while the Gulf of St. Lawrence is the seasonal home to blue, fin, humpback and beluga whales.