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    The Great Atlantic Canada Bucket List: One-of-a-Kind Travel Experiences
    The Great Atlantic Canada Bucket List: One-of-a-Kind Travel Experiences
    The Great Atlantic Canada Bucket List: One-of-a-Kind Travel Experiences
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    The Great Atlantic Canada Bucket List: One-of-a-Kind Travel Experiences

    By Robin Esrock

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    Most Canadians think of travel as a way to escape the snow, cold, and dreary winter skies. But Robin Esrock loves all that our eastern provinces have to offer visitors, and so will you! The Great Atlantic Canada Bucket List highlights the best travel experiences to be had on Canada’s East Coast.

    Not your typical travel guide, Robin’s recommendations encompass outdoor adventure and natural wonders as well as the unique food, culture, and history of the Maritimes. Categorized by province, The Great Atlantic Canada Bucket List will give you a first-hand perspective on:

    • Ziplining over a waterfall in New Brunswick.
    • Harvesting an iceberg for a Newfoundland cocktail.
    • Exploring Nova Scotia’s Cabot Trail.
    • Walking the seabed beneath Hopewell Rocks.
    • Cycling across Canada’s island province.
    • Rafting a tidal wave in the Bay of Fundy.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDundurn
    Release dateFeb 21, 2015
    ISBN9781459729735
    The Great Atlantic Canada Bucket List: One-of-a-Kind Travel Experiences
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    Robin Esrock

    Robin Esrock is an author, journalist, TV host, columnist, and public speaker. He is the author of the smash bestselling book series The Great Canadian Bucket List, along with several international bestsellers. Robin’s stories and photography have appeared in major publications on five continents, including National Geographic Traveler, the Guardian, Chicago Tribune, the Globe and Mail, and Canadian Geographic. The creator and co-host of the internationally syndicated television series Word Travels, Robin has been widely profiled as a “bucket list” travel expert, and his TEDx travel talk has over one million views. Robin lives with his family in Vancouver, B.C.

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      The Great Atlantic Canada Bucket List - Robin Esrock

      For Abigail and Erin Kalmek

      Table of Contents

      Cover

      Introduction

      Using This Book

      New Brunswick

      Nova Scotia

      Prince Edward Island

      Newfoundland and Labrador

      Epilogue

      Acknowledgements

      Photo Credits

      More Great Bucket List Books by Robin Esrock

      Copyright

      It’s my fourth year researching Atlantic Canada, and the deeper I dig, the more experiences I find. This afternoon, for example, I was in an underground coalmine, part of a museum honouring the history of mining in Cape Breton. Our guide, a coal-mining veteran, described an era when ponies pulled carts and blackened workers toiled six days a week in precarious conditions. A fascinating experience, and well worth the visit, but does it belong in The Great Atlantic Canada Bucket List ? Is this truly something to do in Canada before you die?

      I have visited over one hundred countries in pursuit of my bucket list. Along the way, I’ve realized that bucket lists are much like a game of whack-a-mole. You tick one experience off at the top, and three more pop up at the bottom. But in this book, I am effectively stating: You must do this before you die. It’s a bold statement, fitting for subjects as wondrous and frightening as dreams and mortality. One morning, biking to work, a car jumped a stop sign and crashed into me. I hobbled away with a broken kneecap, a painful reminder of the gift of life, and the necessary motivation to finally tick off my own bucket list.

      My adventures led to an unexpected career in travel journalism and television, allowing me to see more, and do more, than I could have ever imagined. Inspired by one of my columns in The Globe and Mail, I realized, however, that my travels had largely neglected my adopted home — Canada. And so began another journey, this time to every province and territory in search of the experiences one must do, and can only do, in Canada, before you die. Bucket lists, of course, are as different as the people who create them, but my selection criteria were simple: Is it unique to Canada? Can anyone and everyone do it? Is this something you’d remember for the rest of your life? Tick all three boxes, and it made my shortlist. There’s no meeting rock stars, no winning the lottery, and no unlikely fantasies, however dreamy they may be. Rather, I’ve created a practical Canadian bucket list — spanning adventure, history, culture, and food — all found in abundance in Canada’s Atlantic provinces.

      Atlantic Canada has no shortage of one-of-a-kind experiences. It is a region of immense beauty, with a culture as lively as a foot-stomping fiddle jig. Activities and destinations that might seem ho-hum to locals amaze us come-from-aways, whether we’re driving on some of the world’s most beautiful roads, catching and tasting local seafood, hiking in the forests, or visiting a museum. Take it from me, there are few places where you can walk headfirst off a cliff, kayak around an iceberg, or raft an actual tidal wave. In underrated New Brunswick, I walked the seabed beneath the Hopewell Rocks, and ziplined across one of Canada’s largest waterfalls. Cycling across Prince Edward Island’s Confederation Trail, the island’s gentle beauty often applied the brakes. I drove across Labrador, picked bakeapples on rugged islands, and plucked my own bergy bits in Newfoundland. Nova Scotia’s history is as fascinating as its coastal beauty, from the highlands of Cape Breton to the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Lunenburg.

      Although you might have found this book in the travel section of your local bookstore, you’ll quickly realize it’s not a traditional guidebook. Rather than focusing on prices and meal recommendations — many of which will change before this book even goes to print — I’ve focused on why you should visit these destinations in the first place. You’re holding a personal journey into the very best of Atlantic Canada, and the joys and wonders that await us all. Accompanying this book is a comprehensive website with all the information you’ll need to get started. At the bottom of each chapter, follow the website link to find practical information, links, meal and accommodation recommendations, videos, galleries, maps, and suggested reading guides. You’ll also find regular blog updates, tips and commentary, and a chance to share your own experiences. Up-to-date information might be great online, but inspiration has always worked wonders on the printed (or digital) page.

      One might argue that every national park, historic site, major city, or museum belongs on Canada’s bucket list, and they would be right. In these pages you will find some obvious choices, some head-scratching facts, and a few laughs, too. It’s an honour to be your guide, and it’s a role I take seriously (although not too seriously, because if there’s one thing Atlantic Canada has taught me, it’s how to laugh in the face of adversity). There are many people to meet and adventures to discover. I needed an accident to remind me it was time to start living. All you need to do is turn the page.

      Robin Esrock

      Vancouver, B.C.

      You will notice this book includes little information about prices, where to stay, where to eat, the best time to go and what you should pack. Important stuff certainly, but practicalities that shift and change with far more regularity than print editions of a book. With this in mind, I’ve created online and social media channels to accompany the inspirational guide you hold in your hands. Here you will find all the information noted above, along with videos, galleries, reading guides and more.

      By visiting www.canadianbucketlist.com, you can also join our community of bucket listers, find exclusive discounts for many of the activities discussed in this book, win prizes, and debate the merits of these and other experiences. When you register, unlock the entire site by entering the code BUCK3TL15T, or access each item individually with the START HERE link at the end of each chapter.

      DISCLAIMER

      Tourism is a constantly changing business. Hotels may change names, restaurants may change owners and some activities may no longer be available at all. Records fall and facts shift. While the utmost care has been taken to ensure the information provided is accurate, the author and publisher take no responsibility for errors, or for any incidents that might occur in your pursuit of these activities.

      Despite its contribution to my surname, geology has never rocked my casbah. It would have to be spectacular, like the fairy chimneys that poke the sky of Cappadocia, Turkey, the bizarre hoodoos at the Yehliu Geopark in Taiwan, or the basalt columns that explode out of the ground in Iceland. Point is, if it’s not a mind-blowing natural phenomenon, chances are I’ll take a picture and do what too many tourists do in New Brunswick: floor it for the next province. This is my headspace when I arrive at the Hopewell Rocks, the most trafficked attraction in New Brunswick. I buy my ticket, walk through an information centre, and meet a site interpreter, who, like all great guides, demonstrates that enthusiasm is infectious — even when it comes to rocks and tides.

      Millions of years ago, a geological shift in tectonic plates produced a valley that was flooded during the last ice age, creating a shallow ocean floor for 100 million tons of water to rush in with the tides, rising up to sixteen metres on the shoreline. The Bay of Fundy holds the distinction of having the world’s biggest tides. New Brunswickers love this unique feature of their province (shared with Nova Scotia), and just about everyone I meet is compelled to describe the tidal phenomenon, which is why I’ve almost certainly explained it incorrectly. My guide reveals that during low tide we can literally walk on the ocean floor, among giant rock structures that have been carved and shaped by this daily flush of water. These are the Hopewell Rocks, which didn’t excite my imagination until I saw them.

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