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Exploring Toronto’s Casa Loma
In the early 1900s, Sir Henry Mill Pellatt, a Canadian soldier and financier who accumulated an immense wealth from the founding of the Toronto Electric Light Company in 1883 and brought electricity to the city, decided to invest his $17 million into a private chateau in Toronto.
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Top Things to Do in Toronto, Canada
Famous for being one of the most culturally diverse cities in the world and home to 2.7 million people (5.7 million if you consider the greater Toronto area), Toronto has it all.
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Cherry Blossoms and Chimney Cakes at Niagara-on-the-Lake
The Hungarian chimney cakes, or kürtőskalács in Hungarian, from Budapest Bake Shop, are one of my favorite things I've ever eaten. A chimney cake is a pastry made from raised dough which is then wrapped around a spit and baked. The cakes can have any fillings, from sweet to savory. We devoured the cinnamon and walnut chimney cakes. The owners of the bakery told us that the recipe they use is over 300 years old.
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Whistler, Canada
Whistler is famous for alpine skiing, snowboarding, mountain biking, and for being the host for the 2010 Winter Olympics (along with Vancouver).
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Vancouver, Canada
The thick stone wall encircling the perimeter of the park and protecting the land from sea erosion is the aptly-named Seawall, which is now a 19-mile bike-and-pedestrian pathway.
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Squamish, British Columbia
Squamish sits at the northern end of the Sea to Sky Highway, the north-south stretch of road connecting all of British Columbia, from Vancouver to Lillooet. Isn’t Sea to Sky a beautiful name for an expressway?
