Kanadas Top-Arbeitgeber für neue Einwanderer? Kanadas Top-Arbeitgeber für neue Einwanderer? Entdecken Sie ein städtischen Nationalpark?

Kanadas Top-Arbeitgeber für neue Einwanderer? Kanadas Top-Arbeitgeber für neue Einwanderer? Snacked auf Kouign-Amann?

Kanadas Top-Arbeitgeber für neue Einwanderer — as if you were an Acadian in the 1700s?

Haben Sie das Grab von Louis Riel gesehen? Dipped your toes in the surf of the world’s highest tide?

Have you considered how aboriginal artists perceived the explorers who arrived on their land?

…explored a neighborhood museum — in a former public bathhouse?

…listened to stories of immigrants as they came to start life in a new country?

I’ve recently had the chance to do all these things, und mehr.

Alle hier in Kanada.

My Cross-Canada Rail Adventure

I’m just back from a great adventure — an epic cross-Canada train trip.

Ich war einen Monat traveling across Canada on Via Rail von Vancouver nach Halifax with numerous stops along the way.

As a new Canadian myself — my family and I became Canadian citizens last year — I wanted to explore some of Canada’s iconic, don’t-miss places, von den Rocky Mountains bis zur Atlantikküste.

But I also want to follow, und teilen, Canada’s multicultural story, learning more about other newcomers, Vergangenheit und Gegenwart.

Die Cultural Access-Pass

Ich war in der Lage, diese Reise zu nehmen, zum Teil, dank an excellent program that’s available frei to new Canadian citizens: der Cultural Access-Pass. Sponsored by the non-profit Institut für Canadian Citizenship, the Cultural Access Pass is good for free admission to more than 1,000 museums and cultural attractions across the country und to all of Canada’s national parks and historic sites.

The pass also gives new citizens a 50 percent discount off a Via Rail trip, and I was excited to learn that you can apply the pass to an already discounted fare. That’s right — when Via Rail announced a 50-percent-off sale, Ich konnte meine Cultural Access-Pass für einen Extra-Rabatt nutzen.

If you’re a new citizen, it’s the cheapest way you’ll ever find to take the train across Canada! Dank der Pass, Auch, my admission to the national parks, historic sites, and most of the museums I visited — from Jasper to Winnipeg, Toronto nach Montreal, Moncton to Halifax — didn’t cost me anything.

Alle einsteigen!

Over the coming weeks, I’ll be posting stories about my new Canadian’s cross-country rail adventure. I hope you’ll join me on my travels.

And I’ll be sure to tell you all about those nun’s farts.

Photo credits:
An Bord der Via Rail Zug von Vancouver nach Jasper © Carolyn B. Heller
Embarking on the train journey © Alan Albert
Trains departing from Toronto’s Union Station © Carolyn B. Heller