Canada

A metropolitan city offering something different from most cities, Vancouver’s city centre abounds with an affluent arts scene, diverse foods and sporting events.

The Downtown area includes the famous Stanley Park, encircled by a sea wall, and at 400 hectares, one of the largest urban parks in North America.

With mountains to the north and English Bay to the west and surrounded by temperate rain forests, Vancouver enjoys a warmer climate than most other Canadian cities, making outdoor recreational activities possible all year round, with the city-side beaches a favourite location.

Consistently ranked as one of the world’s most liveable cities, Vancouver is a Canadian city on the move and in demand.

Canada has produced wine for over 200 years, with southern British Columbia and Ontario the main areas of production. Ontario ice wine is made of grapes that have been left to freeze naturally on the vine. Ice wine is luscious, intensely flavoured wine, boasting rich aromas and flavours of ripe tropical fruits, ideal with dessert.

With influences from Canada’s First Nations, English, Scottish and French roots, pinpointing a definitive Canadian cuisine is mission impossible.

Top contenders for being regarded as Canadian national food is poutine, a dish of French fries and cheese curds topped with light brown gravy, or butter tarts.

If you’re looking for a traditional aboriginal cuisine of Canada, expect a mixture of wild game, foraged foods and farmed agricultural products, and possibly topped with maple syrup, of which, Canada is the world’s largest producer.