In the spring, all minds might turn to flowers; but in the fall, the focus is on food. Canada’s glowing landscape shifts to produce some of the body fillers we’ll covet in the months to come: top-class wines, delicious seafood and meats, plus root veggies perfect for soups and cold nights in front of a fireplace. And when the hard work of the harvest is done? We party.

Hollywood and Broadway have stolen some of Canada’s finest actors. Ryan Gosling. Kiefer Sutherland. Kim Cattrall. Mike Myers.

“There’s such a lot of different Annes in me.” Oh, yeah, that’s 11-year-old Anne Shirley, orphan-heroine of Anne of Green Gables. But her beloved Prince Edward Island could say the same about itself.