Sustainable Travel
Story Time in Canada Listening to traditional stories and weaving cedar at an Indigenous-owned wilderness resort in British Columbia. Gazing at galaxies on a torchlit canoe ride in remote Québec. Meeting a gold miner in the Yukon, a cattle and white-bison rancher in Alberta, and cod fishers in Newfoundland. These quintessentially Canadian experiences are part of Virtuoso on-site tour connection Entrée Canada’s new Stories of Canada collection, 20 journeys that will eventually span all 13 of the country’s provinces and territories. Six-day tours connect visitors with Canada’s people and land in some off-the-tourist-radar destinations while also providing access to its First Nations communities, so
Canadian cool: A Newfoundland vista.
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that guides, elders, and knowledge keepers can share their history and heritage. In Alberta’s boreal forests, for instance, a Cree guide leads a plant-medicine journey, and in the Northwest Territories, a Dene elder hosts a traditional land- and fire-feeding ceremony. “Along with economic boosts to Indigenous communities, core benefits for these guides and hosts revolve around the sharing of their stories,” says Marc Telio, Entrée Canada’s founder and president. “Indigenous culture is typically shared through storytelling by knowledge keepers and elders, and when it happens, it’s both captivating and connective.” From $3,370.
