FIND YOUR TOWN
992 towns, remarkable people, and hidden gems from coast to coast
HIT THE ROAD
Build your perfect route through small-town Canada
992
towns listed
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Annual Visitors
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Provinces & Territories
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Pages of Content
2016
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Canada's coast-to-coast small-town tourism platform.
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Handpicked small towns worth the detour — updated every season
🌷 Summer 2026 picks
Nova Scotia
Lunenburg
UNESCO World Heritage town with colourful waterfront buildings, the Fisheries Museum, and the home port of the Bluenose.
Ontario
Elora
Limestone gorge, artist studios, and Ontario's prettiest main street — 90 minutes from Toronto.
Yukon
Dawson City
The heart of the Klondike Gold Rush. Wooden boardwalks, the Dawson City Museum, Dredge No. 4, and the midnight sun — plus a golf course you reach by free ferry across the Yukon River.
Alberta
Canmore
Mountain town at the gateway to Banff — hiking, skiing, and the 1988 Olympic Nordic Centre.
Ontario
Parry Sound
Gateway to 30,000 Islands — Bobby Orr's hometown on the shore of Georgian Bay.
British Columbia
Fernie
Legendary powder town in the Elk Valley — skiing, culture, craft beer, and dramatic Rocky Mountain scenery.
Nova Scotia
Wolfville
University town in the Annapolis Valley with wineries, Acadia campus, and the home of a Father of Confederation.
Quebec
Mont-Tremblant Ski Resort
Quebec’s premier mountain resort, known for its vibrant pedestrian village, world-class skiing, and year-round outdoor experiences in the Laurentians.
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PEOPLE of small towns
The people who put small towns on the map
Olympic champions, literary legends, artists, and trailblazers — all from towns you can visit today
Megan Oldham | Olympic Freestyle Skiing Champion
📍 Parry Sound, Ontario
Parry Sound's newest Olympic champion — gold in big air, bronze in slopestyle, and the whole town showed up to welcome her home.
Rosie MacLennan | Trampoline Champion
📍 King, Ontario
From King, Ontario Rosannagh “Rosie” MacLennan is a World and Olympic Trampoline champion.
Leonard Cohen | Iconic Singer
📍 Westmount, Quebec
From Westmount, Quebec Leonard Norman Cohen is a legendary singer, poet, songwriter and artist.
Randy Ragan | Soccer Player
📍 High Prairie, Alberta
From High Prairie, Alberta Randolph “Randy” Lee Ragan was an elite professional soccer player.
Joseph Boyd Martin | Dean of Harvard Medical School
📍 Bassano, Alberta
From Bassano AB Joseph Boyd Martin is the Edward R. and Anne G. Lefler Professor Emeritus of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School.
William Wallace Gibson | Airplane Inventor
📍 Balgonie, Saskatchewan
From Balgonie SK William Wallace Gibson created the first Canadian-built airplane.
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