Ottawa occupies an unusual position in the Canadian consciousness — it’s the capital, which means most Canadians feel vaguely obligated to visit it at some point, and most of them are then surprised to discover how good it actually is. More relaxed than Toronto, more bilingual than anywhere else in Ontario, and home to more […]
Montreal is not like other Canadian cities. It has its own language, its own cuisine, its own internal logic — a bilingual, stubbornly individual city built on an island in the St. Lawrence River, with a mountain in its middle and centuries of French and British history layered into its architecture. Of all the places […]