DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Canada

This latest (2016) DK Eyewitness Travel Guide to Canada is a superb resource for planning and enjoying a trip to the U.S.'s neighbor north of the border. The guide combines an appealing mix of narrative, maps, photos, and diagrams to capture the highlights in each region of Canada, including the major cities of Montreal, Quebec City, Toronto, Ottawa, and Vancouver. Each section notes historical sites, city zoos, beautiful natural scenary, uniquely Canadian institutions such as the Citadel at Quebec, towering over the St. Lawrence River, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Academy and Museum, and Canada's astonishingly good provincial museum system, with outstanding examples in Calgary and Winnipeg, for example.With the help of some local maps, this guide allows visitors to find and enjoy their choice of a variety of attractions. The guide includes tips on navigating Canadian customs, airports, dining, accomodations, and money. This reviewer utilized the guide for a multi-day trip on the Trans-Canadian Highway, picking out interesting sites to visit during each day's travel. Highly recommended as an excellent planning and touristing resource to Canada.

This book is an excellent choice if you want to get an overview of what’s to see in Canada and where the different sites are located. The book’s innumerable photographs are very pretty, but to my mind, its standout feature is its many maps, which give an excellent idea of the layout of cities and areas and where the sites of interest are in relation to each other. There don’t seem to be many tourist guidebooks that cover all of Canada, and this is probably the best of them; it’s certainly infinitely superior to the Worldwide Travelers one, which tells you almost nothing.“Introduction” is the operative word, however: to plan a trip to Canada in any detail, you will also need to buy region-specific guides such as the Fodor ones or do further research online, because the DK book provides no information on such things as hotels. This is not surprising, given the huge area the book covers, but I could wish for somewhat fewer photographs (though I realize that those are one of the specialties of this series) and more information.

really like this one. took it with me for the canada trip. excellent book. nice photos

Bought this as a gift for someone that is RV'ing across Canada. He loves the book and said it was just perfect and will be well used.

If you are travelling to Canada, then this is the guide you need. It starts with an overview and then covers each province and city along with their attractions, places to stay, eat and a whole lot of other useful details. The paper is glossy and thick. Its weight (almost 400gm) may be an issue. I would have preferred a lighter guide to carry along. I guess it will take the rigours of my backpack better. Looking forward to a month of backpacking in Canada with this book as a guide.

DK is the perfect travel guide, don't travel anywhere without it.

Just went on a 2-leg Canada trip - first visit. This guide (as all DK do) delivers an excellent background and wonderful overview of this beautiful country. Highly recommended.

This small book surprisingly contains very specific information about so many things a person needs to know when planning a vacation. Lots of very nice photographs and detailed city center sightseeing maps.

Love these books for choosing areas & places to see in a particular country. Colour pictures and recommendations of the best things to see

i bought this guide to help me plan a road trip in Quebec. The information was actually very limited and did not help me in any way plan my trip.

Adetailed easy to read book full of useful information and covering all the places I shall be visiting Very pleased.

It was very handy, pleased with it

It was liked very much