It's a major year in a major nation as 2017 imprints the 150th commemoration of Canadian Confederation, the minute Canada turned into a self-overseeing territory inside the British Empire – a nation, at the end of the day. What's more, it's difficult to think about a nation more lovely or more fluctuated – a justifiable reason motivation to visit whenever, not to mention a year that guarantees to be one long, across the country birthday party.
The enormous scenes – the Canadian Rockies – are notable. Less celebrated is the quality of the landscape somewhere else. Pockets of British Columbia, for instance, contain forsake (around Osoyoos) and warm-wintered enclaves of vines and olives (the Okanagan). On the west drift, the Inside Passage includes North America's finest seascapes. Alberta's prairies contain scary barren wasteland (at Drumheller); the fall shades of New Brunswick are the equivalent of anything in New England. Also, over everything curves the huge, ethereal excellence of the Arctic.
Past the scene are urban communities deserving of visits in their own particular right, for example, Vancouver, regularly appraised one of the world's most liveable urban communities, and Montreal, a dynamic francophone enclave.Not yet persuaded? In the video above, Telegraph Travel's Trisha Andres and Hugh Morris offer more reasons why Canada ought to be on your travel agenda.
