Parks Canada and the 2010 Winter Games

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Coming to Canada? Discover your Moment.

Plan your real, inspiring experience at Canada's National Parks and National Historic Sites.

Looking for your own unique experience in beautiful British Columbia?
Have you been a tourist in your own home province? Think you've seen it and done it all? Or are you just arriving in British Columbia and don't know where to begin?

Check out Parks Canada's top ten "must see and do's" in British Columbia to see what experiences await you.

• Surf the waves of Long Beach in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve all year round!

• Taste the best at the annual Island Chef's Collaborative Local Food Festival at Fort Rodd Hill and Fisgard Lighthouse National Historic Sites.

• Island hop in Gulf Islands National Park Reserve by kayak, boat or ferry.

• Soak up the natural heat in Radium Hot Springs in Kootenay National Park

• Learn about avalanches at Rogers Pass National Historic Site in Glacier National Park

• Follow the gold rush from Fort Langley National Historic Site to Fort St. James National Historic Site

• Explore a place that many have wished to visit but very few ever reach: Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve

• Visit the world's best preserved Cambrian Age fossils of soft-bodied marine organisms at the Burgess Shale and UNESCO World Heritage Site in Yoho National Park

• Have a taste of early fishermen's life on the coast and enjoy an afternoon at Steveston Harbour while visiting the Gulf of Georgia Cannery National Historic Site

• Explore the spectacular scenery in Mount Revelstoke National Park 

Looking for that once in a lifetime all-Canadian experience beyond British Columbia? Follow your inner explorer to these Parks Canada Vancouver 2010 Olympic Torch Relay highlight destinations.

Commune with your inner Viking as you stroll through the archeological remains and reconstructed base camp of 11th century Norse Folks at L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site, Newfoundland.
Torch relay: Day 14. November 12. 2009.

Visit the most easterly point of land in North America and watch whales and icebergs drift at Cape Spear National Historic Site, Newfoundland.
Torch relay: Day 15. November 13, 2009.

Experience 19th century military life in the heart of a modern day city at the Halifax Citadel National Historic Site, Nova Scotia.
Torch relay: Day 22. November 20, 2009.

Relive the adventures of a pig-tailed redheaded teenager in rural Prince Edward Island at L.M. Montgomery's Cavendish National Historic Site.
Torch relay: Day 24. November 22, 2009.

Visit one of the Seven Wonders of the World at Fundy National Park as you watch the world's highest tide gush into the shallow Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick.
Torch relay: Day 26. November 24, 2009.

Pass through the medieval gateways of Old Québec and experience the culture of French Canada as you meander along the cobblestone streets of this UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Torch relay: Day 35. December 3, 2009.

Visit the southernmost point of Canada at Point Pelee National Park, Ontario. Keep your eyes peeled for some of the many species at risk located within the park.
Torch relay: Day 55. December 23, 2009.

Celebrate the 125th Birthday of Banff National Park in Alberta by going skiing, hiking or taking a soak in the hot springs of Canada's first national park.
Torch relay: Days 83 & 84. January 20 & 21, 2010.