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The Pacific Rim is reached through British Columbia, but most visitors fly in through other provinces too. Our hotel catalogue covers 6 of Canada’s 13 provinces and territories; each guide below says what the region is known for, when it is at its best and how many hotels we list there.
Canada's most populous province: Toronto and Ottawa for city stays and business, Niagara Falls for the waterfalls and the wine region, and cottage country to the north.
Best time: Late spring to early autumn; the autumn colour in September and October is a draw in its own right.
Canada's Pacific province pairs a big-city waterfront in Vancouver with the island capital of Victoria, the ski village of Whistler and the lake-and-vineyard country of the Okanagan around Kelowna.
Best time: Summer for the coast and lakes, December to March for skiing.
Home to the Canadian Rockies resort towns of Banff, Canmore and Jasper, plus the two big prairie cities of Calgary and Edmonton, which are the usual arrival points for a mountain trip.
Best time: June to September for hiking and lakes, winter for ski resorts.
A province where French is the everyday language: Montréal for food and festivals, Québec City for its walled old town, and Mont-Tremblant for skiing and lakeside summers in the Laurentians.
Best time: Summer festivals, autumn colour, and winter for skiing and the Québec City winter carnival.
An Atlantic province of fishing villages and a long coastline, with Halifax as its harbour capital and the Cabot Trail on Cape Breton Island as the best-known drive.
Best time: July to October, when ferries, lighthouses and coastal drives are at their easiest.
The province around the Bay of Fundy, known for some of the highest tides in the world, with Moncton, Fredericton and Saint John as the main bases.
Best time: Summer and early autumn along the Fundy coast.