Coverage / Canada
Canada
North America
A country of extraordinary geographic range, from Atlantic coastlines to Rocky Mountain peaks, with a cultural calendar anchored by TIFF in Toronto, one of the world's most publicly accessible film festivals.
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What you can do in Canada
Wildlife Safaris
- ChurchillJan Feb Mar Oct Nov Churchill is where you go to photograph polar bears. The tundra outside town in October and November holds the largest accessible concentration of polar bears on earth, waiting on the shore of Hudson Bay for the ice to freeze so they can begin hunting again. Specialist tundra buggies and rover vehicles put photographers within meters of the bears in natural behavior. The same location in January through March delivers exceptional northern lights over a dark, flat, snow-covered landscape with near-guaranteed clear skies on many nights. In summer, the Churchill River estuary hosts one of the world's largest beluga whale aggregations. Three completely different subjects, one remote location.
- Great Bear RainforestSep OctThe Great Bear Rainforest is the world's largest intact coastal temperate rainforest, 6.4 million hectares of fjord and old growth on British Columbia's central coast, and it is the only place on earth to see the Kermode spirit bear, a white-coated black bear subspecies numbering only a few hundred. September and October salmon runs pull grizzlies, black bears, spirit bears, wolves, and humpbacks into the river estuaries at once. Spirit Bear Lodge is owned by the Kitasoo Xai'xais First Nation at Klemtu, and viewing runs through their traditional territory with community guides, which is both the access model and the point.
Best months at a glance
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