Ouimet Canyon on a Drive Across Canada

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Unless you're a long trucker or have a lot of time on your hands, driving across Canada is something most people will never do in their lives. I'm lucky enough to have driven to Nova Scotia, British Columbia and everything in between. Seen it all, except for Newfound Land and the territories.

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The North Shore of Lake Superior is where you find the Only Road in Canada literally at one point there is only one road and if the bridge goes out, it's a long way around the lake through USA. The Photo was taken on Pebble Beach in Marathon, Ontario.

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The scenery here is untouched Canadian Shield. There is literally nothing except nature, you frequently pass signs that say next gas station over 100 kilometers on our main, Trans Canada, highway. The picture is Aguasabon Falls, just off the road near Terrace Bay. If you're ever driving by its a quick stop.

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The Ouimet Canyon in its full glory. 100 m deep, 150 m wide and 2000 m long. The photo doesn't do it justice. It's a ways off the highway down a dirt road so not everyone would see it. Located about an hour from Thunder Bay it would be a must see if you're ever in the area.

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It's impressive, the most impressive thing for the next 2222 km until you get to Banff. We wish there was more time to explore but we had a car full of stuff and a couple of cats.

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Kakabeka Falls are just outside of Thunder Bay, there were tourist buses here from Minnesota. They're impressive but the bridge build right above it ruins the beauty of the falls. There's another road a few hundred meters away, it was not necessary to but that there.

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This is what 1400 km could look like anywhere between Winnipeg and Calgary, but it's not. @klye might be able to tell us something about life on the prairies.

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The prairies aren't as flat as you think, there are rolling hills. This is taken a little west of Calgary just as you get into the foot hills. There is not much as far as scenery in concerned between here and the Canadian Shield along the highway.

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Downtown Calgary surprises me, it's bigger than one would think and most of those buildings are connected by something called the plus 15, which is probably 15 feet above the street and forms a large concourse. The photo is of a beaver dam in Prince's park.

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Scene's of Suburbia. The one great thing about Calgary is you can see the mountains from anywhere with a Western view. The sunsets are always a sight to behold.

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We went a little too far here. This is looking down towards Canmore from the top of Tunnel Mountain, which is more of a hill on the outskirts of Banff.

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Thank you for coming along


All photos taken with an Sa40 and iphone 11pro

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"@klye might be able to tell us something about life on the prairies."

Well.. It's -40c in the winter and +40c in the summer.

Most places around these parts are pretty damn flat.
Nice pictures on this post for sure, Canada does have some beautiful landscape in places.

Been everywhere but BC personally (even way up in northern Canada) and the east coast and north are magnificent.

Would love to drive up north one day. Going to Jasper on Canada Day if that counts :D

The Forks area in Winnipeg was neat.

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Was up there at one point.. Gods country!

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Ah, I can't help but think of L.M. Montgomery whenever I see or read something that involves the prairies. Lovely sceneries!

Thank you, Montgomery knew how to set the scene

Wow - lovely scenery and pics. Canada is a stunning country !
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Wow just Wow, what a beautiful place is this, I can easily say that, I can spend the whole day just sitting and looking at these beautiful trees without doing anything else, and I won't get bored.

It was stunning. Lots of trees to look at in Northern Ontario

Wow .those are stunning landscapes.. If the place is untouched, can it be reached on foot?

Thanks, generally speaking you can reach most of these places on foot

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