Ethical Wildlife Viewing: How to Watch Wildlife in Canada Without Doing Harm
Canada’s wildlife is extraordinary. It’s also fragile. This spring, here’s how to be a thoughtful presence in the field.
Celebrate the season’s flavours
From vineyard tastings to farm-to-table feasts, autumn in Canada is all about abundance. Savor the harvest and meet the makers who bring it to life.
Take the scenic route this fall
Drive through fiery forests, hike glowing trails, and discover the golden light that makes Canada’s autumn unforgettable.
Find warmth in the season
Escape to lodges, cabins, and festival towns where firesides, wildlife encounters, and local culture invite you to slow down.
From the golden larch forests of Alberta to maple-lined trails in Quebec and cozy lodges in Atlantic Canada, fall is when the country glows at its most captivating. Journey along scenic drives framed by fiery forests, taste the richness of harvest season, and find warmth in festivals, firesides, and wildlife encounters.
This is Canada’s golden hour — fleeting, radiant, and unforgettable.
Video courtesy of Riding Mountain National Park, Manitoba.
Canada’s wildlife is extraordinary. It’s also fragile. This spring, here’s how to be a thoughtful presence in the field.
Whale watching in Canada is possible on three coasts: the Pacific, the Atlantic, and the Arctic, nearly 250,000 kilometres of shoreline. Close to 30 species either live in or migrate through Canadian waters each year, from humpbacks and orcas to belugas and narwhals. Each region offers a different experience, shaped
Cape Breton Island sits on Nova Scotia’s Atlantic coast, a 175-kilometre stretch of highland, coastline, and living culture. Originally known as Unama’ki, it has been home to Mi’kmaq peoples for thousands of years. Today, five Mi’kmaq communities call it home: Wagmatcook, We’koqma’q, Potlotek, Membertou, and Eskasoni. Layered on top of
The Bay of Fundy, the Cabot Trail, Viking settlements, and icebergs drifting past fishing villages in June. This is Atlantic Canada by road trip.
Just an hour east of Halifax, a sprawling archipelago stretches along Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore. Most travellers drive right past it. The 100 Wild Islands (282 islands in total, scattered between Clam Harbour and Mushaboom Harbour) form one of the largest coastal island wilderness areas in the province, and one
New Brunswick offers some of Atlantic Canada’s most varied landscapes from the dramatic tides of the Bay of Fundy to quiet river valleys draped in old-growth forest. The province’s trail networks, coastal parks, and protected reserves make it easy to move between ocean and woodland, often within the same day.
