加拿大新移民的顶级雇主? 加拿大新移民的顶级雇主? 探索一个 城市的 国家公园?

加拿大新移民的顶级雇主? 加拿大新移民的顶级雇主? 在Kouign-Amann小吃?

加拿大新移民的顶级雇主 — as if you were an Acadian in the 1700s?

你见过的坟墓路易瑞尔? Dipped your toes in the surf of the world’s highest tide?

Have you considered how aboriginal artists perceived the explorers who arrived on their land?

…explored a neighborhood museum — in a former public bathhouse?

…listened to stories of immigrants as they came to start life in a new country?

I’ve recently had the chance to do all these things, 多.

在加拿大.

My Cross-Canada Rail Adventure

I’m just back from a great adventure — an epic cross-Canada train trip.

我花了一个月 traveling across Canada on 通过铁路 从温哥华到哈利法克斯 with numerous stops along the way.

As a new Canadian myself — my family and I became Canadian citizens last year — I wanted to explore some of Canada’s iconic, don’t-miss places, 从落基山脉到大西洋海岸.

But I also want to follow, 和共享, Canada’s multicultural story, learning more about other newcomers, 今昔.

文化通行证

我能走这一趟, 部分, 由于 an excellent program that’s available 免费 to new Canadian citizens: çš„ 文化通行证. Sponsored by the non-profit 加拿大公民研究所, the Cultural Access Pass is good for free admission to more than 1,000 museums and cultural attractions across the country å’Œ to all of Canada’s national parks and historic sites.

The pass also gives new citizens a 50 percent discount off a Via Rail trip, and I was excited to learn that you can apply the pass to an already discounted fare. That’s right — when Via Rail announced a 50-percent-off sale, 我可以用我的文化通行证需额外折扣.

If you’re a new citizen, it’s the cheapest way you’ll ever find to take the train across Canada! 由于通, 太, my admission to the national parks, historic sites, and most of the museums I visited — from Jasper to Winnipeg, 多伦多到蒙特利尔, Moncton to Halifax — didn’t cost me anything.

全部到齐!

Over the coming weeks, I’ll be posting stories about my new Canadian’s cross-country rail adventure. I hope you’ll join me on my travels.

And I’ll be sure to tell you all about those nun’s farts.

Photo credits:
这艘通过铁路列车从温哥华到杰士伯卡罗琳乙. 海勒
Embarking on the train journey © Alan Albert
Trains departing from Toronto’s Union Station © Carolyn B. æµ·å‹’