Los principales empleadores de Canadá para nuevos inmigrantes? Los principales empleadores de Canadá para nuevos inmigrantes? Explora un urbano parque nacional?

Los principales empleadores de Canadá para nuevos inmigrantes? Los principales empleadores de Canadá para nuevos inmigrantes? Merienda en Kouign-Amann?

Los principales empleadores de Canadá para nuevos inmigrantes — as if you were an Acadian in the 1700s?

¿Has visto la tumba de Louis Riel? 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, y más.

Todos aquí en Canadá.

My Cross-Canada Rail Adventure

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

I spent a month traveling across Canada on Via Rail desde Vancouver a 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, desde las Montañas Rocosas hasta la costa atlántica.

But I also want to follow, y compartir, Canada’s multicultural story, learning more about other newcomers, pasado y presente.

El Pase de Acceso Cultural

Tuve la oportunidad de hacer este viaje, en parte,, gracias a an excellent program that’s available libre to new Canadian citizens: el Pase de Acceso Cultural. Sponsored by the non-profit Instituto para la Ciudadanía Canadiense, the Cultural Access Pass is good for free admission to more than 1,000 museums and cultural attractions across the country y 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, I was able to use my Cultural Access Pass for an extra discount.

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

Todos a bordo!

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:
A bordo del tren Via Rail de Vancouver a Jasper © Carolyn B. Heller
Embarking on the train journey © Alan Albert
Trains departing from Toronto’s Union Station © Carolyn B. Heller