Editor's Note
When done thoughtfully, travel is about connecting to landscape, to history, and most of all, to people. That spirit of connection runs through this issue.
At Pier 21, stories of immigration trace Canada’s ties to the wider world, revealing a country shaped by layered identities and lived experience. In British Columbia’s Slocan Valley, the Japanese Canadian Internment Historic Trail brings visitors into a landscape marked by displacement and resilience, asking us to consider how remembrance shapes the present. In New Brunswick, travellers are choosing to support businesses that give back to their communities, creating meaningful links between visitor and place.
Connection can live in a landscape, in a story, in the exchange of something gathered from the land. This spring, we explore how travel deepens those ties, inviting us not only to discover a place, but to engage with it more meaningfully.
Izabela Jaroszynski
Managing Editor, Northern Soul Magazine
Features
Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21
New Arrivals
Between 1928 and 1971, more than one million immigrants entered the country through Pier 21 in Halifax. For many families, this stretch of waterfront marked the beginning of their Canadian story.
Hyper-local Dining in Prince Edward Island
Crafting The Table
Each week, Chef Hunter Guindon’s seven-course tasting menu reflects the land and people of PEI, showcasing the passion of the growers and producers whose work infuses every dish.
Bay of Quinte's Experiential Tourism
Rooted Along the Bay
From tending hives to gathering late-summer blooms, visitors in the Bay of Quinte are stepping into hands-on, community-rooted experiences where connection shapes more meaningful travel.
In This Issue
Ebb & Flow
Pottery retreats and hands-on workshops at a harbour-side studio on Fogo Island reveal the quiet discipline of clay and how it brings you into the rhythm of place.
Birding on the Prairies
Sitting at the crossroads of two major migratory flyways, Saskatchewan is a vital stopover for birds. Explore the top birding spots within a day's drive of Saskatoon.
Paddling the Nahanni
The ancient Nahanni cuts through towering limestone canyons, its powerful current carving a wilderness journey that forever changes those who paddle it.
Where Craft Becomes Connection
Across Canada, the Économusée Network invite visitors inside working artisan studios, where living traditions are shared through process, place, and conversation.
Walking Through History
A new self-guided journey in BC's scenic Slocan Valley invites travellers to explore the cultural and historical legacy of Canada’s tumultuous World War II period.
Halifax's Wild Edges
Wellness retreats offer quiet coastlines, forest trails, and restorative spaces to reset, breathe deeply, and step gently out of the everyday.
Spring Awakening
In Manitoba, the Narcisse Snake Dens are home to the world’s largest gathering of snakes, a rare natural phenomenon that draws visitors each spring.
Gathering Season
Across Canada, berry picking unfolds in fields, forests, and along shorelines, a seasonal ritual that binds people to place and each other.
Pay it Forward
Travel becomes an act of reciprocity when visitors support local businesses and initiatives that strengthen the communities they call home.
Spring Collection
When spring returns in Canada, it is best seen at the water’s edge: riverbanks releasing their hold on ice, lakes widening under longer days. It settles into the soil too — in trees thick with new buds and grass greening beneath our feet. This collection gathers stories shaped by places where earth and water meet, and where time spent outside invites a deeper sense of connection to the land, and to one another.
The Sacred Hand
A medicine walk with Wabanaki Tree Spirit Tours in New Brunswick connects travellers to Indigenous plant knowledge and a deeper relationship with the living landscape.
Rocks, Trees & Lakes
In Whiteshell Provincial Park, granite shorelines, boreal forest, and lake country create space to move slowly, paddle quietly, and spend unhurried time at the water’s edge.
Quiet Giant of Cottage Country
Lake of the Woods is a vast inland waterway of rocky points, quiet bays, and island-dotted passages that invite return, season after season.
Under the Influence of Nature
Guided forest bathing experiences draw participants into the sensory world of the woods, where stillness, breath, and observation deepen one’s connection to the natural world.
Masthead
Editor: Izabela Jaroszynski
Contributors:
- Andréanne Joly
- Claudia Laroye
- Maureen Littlejohn
- Stephanie Mayo
- Cathy Senecal
- Rosalind Stefanac
- Kateryna Topol
- Athena Tsavliris
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Previous Issue: Volume 10 - Winter 2026
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