The first stop in Canada for many backpacker/travelers is often Toronto. It is our nation’s largest city; the financial centre; cultural hub; Hollywood North etc.
Toronto is located about 3000 kilometers from the farthest city east (St. John’s, Newfoundland) and the country stretches another 4,500 kilometers northwest to Whitehorse in the Yukon Territory.
You want to explore Canada? Then you are in for a lot of travelling. It’s a pretty big place.
There are an (estimated) 3,000,000 lakes in a country that possesses about 10% of the world’s fresh water.
It spans 6 time-zones. (Pacific/Mountain/Central/Eastern/Atlantic/and Newfoundland Standard Time).
The ten Provinces and three Territories occupy almost 10 million square kilometers of this cearth and alost 900,000 sq. kilometers of that is fresh water. (Second largest country in the world.
The real irony of Canada is that this enormous, resource rich, sparsely inhabited and spectacularly beautiful nation is home to just 32,000,000 people!