Marc Atchison spends a few nights in the heart of Ontario’s Niagara wine country and discovers an historic inn nestled among the vines where hospitality and history intersect.

Marc Atchison discovers that l’île de Montréal offers many of the things you'll find on islands in sunnier climes, including surfing and sunset cruises aboard a sleek sailing ship. And you don't even have to leave Canada to enjoy all that this summer.

Montréal honours its heroes, like the late Leonard Cohen, by featuring with their images painted on giant murals that are scattered throughout the city. The city even holds two mural festivals.

Marc Atchison spends a few days in Montréal to recharge his body, mind and soul at the city's great urban spas, it's fabulous museum of fine arts and in the latest boutique hotel.

Marc Atchison dines at a unique Montréal restaurant where volunteer servers work for free, most of the profit goes to charity and customers are encouraged to smash their plates after they eat.

QUÉBEC CITY — Every time I push open the polished bronzed doors of one of Fairmont’s legendary heritage hotels, like this city’s fabulous Fairmont Le Château Frontenac, I’m imbued with a sense of history.

WALLACE, NS — I gaze in wonderment as the setting sun silhouettes a small lighthouse standing on the jagged coastline where the mind-blowing Fox Harb’r Resort drifts off into the Northumberland Strait. It’s a Maritime scene worthy of a frame.

VANCOUVER - Coach No. 5 is abuzz with excitement. The occupants have spotted a bald eagle soaring majestically above the bi-level car’s glass dome ceiling and cameras are clicking at a rapid pace. The graceful creature with the piercing eyes and trademark white head and tail seems to be enjoying all the attention and follows our Rocky Mountaineer train until suddenly, and without warning, it drops from the sky like a missile and plucks a large fish out of an emerald green lake with its lethal t...

WOODVIEW, ON - Sometimes, the best vacation destinations are the ones closest to home. Take this sleepy little hamlet, located just two hours north of Toronto in Ontario’s pristine Kawartha Lakes District, for example.

KEMBLE, ON - The road that winds along lovely Georgian Bay and past the rolling countryside known as Georgian Bluffs, reminds me of the seaside Massachusetts highways I normally travel on vacation -— before the Canadian dollar became a Third World currency, that is.