It’s no secret – every year Canada blushes from head to toe.

I love that sea glass or beach glass is sometimes called “mermaid’s tears,” a romantic nickname for the washed-up-on-shore shards of broken glass, frosted and tumbled smooth over decades ­– even centuries – by the rolling action of the waves.

Summer has officially arrived when you can enter Kingsbrae Garden in St. Andrews and view the thousands of perennials in bloom, bursting with every color found on an Impressionist painter’s palette.

Rev up the usual noise and hoopla of a parade and you’ve got a Tintamarre, meaning “din” or “clangour” in Acadian French. Rooted in mid-20th century celebrations of Acadian pride, Tintamarres were formed when people grabbed whistles, bells, drums, and horns to parade loudly through the streets, sometimes accompanied by local church bells.

The Bay of Fundy is Canada’s happy hunting grounds for rockhounds. The Bay’s giant tides work like nature’s rock pick, chiselling away at shoreline cliffs and revealing rich seams of zeolite crystals and semi-precious stones – agates and amethysts are among the top finds.

While making their mark on the world and ensuring that Acadian culture remains alive and growing, Le Festival acadien de Caraquet has been ranked one of the Top 100 tourist events in North America by the American Bus Association several times over.

When history hits the stage in these five top historic attractions, you can learn how to bake a loaf of soldier’s bread, practice your can-can kicks or forge a nail, and more.

It’s just not easy being blue—that is, if you one of those one-in-two-million blue-hued lobsters pulled from New Brunswick waters.

Fishing for northern pike on Great Slave Lake on a brisk, early summer day in Canada’s Northwest Territories turned me into a sport fisher.

Our team at the Canadian Tourism Commission (CTC) has just added a bunch of gorgeous Canada photos to our photo library. The good news: these are free to use for media and rights-ready. Just go to our CTC Brand Canada photo library, browse and download images to match your stories.