Fiction Books
In this J.K. Rowling series, a boy discovers he’s a wizard and attends Hogwarts.
Harry Potter
This self-help book by Stephen Covey lists “7 Habits” of highly effective people.
7 Habits of Highly Effective People
This frozen treat from Dairy Queen is famously served upside down.
A Blizzard
This province’s Whistler Blackcomb resort is one of North America’s largest ski destinations.
BC
This is the world’s largest island located entirely within Canada.
Baffin Island
This bestselling novel by Delia Owens follows “the Marsh Girl” through the wilds of North Carolina
Where the Crawdads Sing
Michelle Obama’s memoir tells her story from the South Side of Chicago to the White House
Becoming
The only metal that’s liquid at room temperature.
mercury
This Olympic city hosted the Winter Games in 1988 and sits at the edge of the Rockies.
Calgary
This northernmost national park, known for polar bears and Arctic tundra, lies in Nunavut.
Quttinirpaaq National Park
This mischievous bear from “darkest Peru” loves marmalade and wears a red hat and blue coat.
Paddington Bear
In Outliers, (Ontario's) Malcolm Gladwell argues it takes roughly this many hours to master a skill.
10,000 hours
The Great Pyramid of Giza is located near this Egyptian city
Cairo
This Quebec resort in the Laurentians is known for its colourful pedestrian village.
Tremblant
Named for a British explorer, this strait separates the island of Newfoundland from Labrador.
Strait of Belle Isle
This 2021 novel by Bonnie Garmus follows chemist Elizabeth Zott, whose cooking show becomes a feminist revolution.
Lessons in Chemistry
This Canadian doctor and addiction specialist wrote In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
Gabor Maté
his board game’s goal is to “own it all,” including Park Place and Boardwalk.
Monopoly
This national park in Alberta is home to Lake Louise and some of Canada’s best powder.
Banff
This region in northern Canada is famous for its red soil, Anne of Green Gables, and world-class mussels.
Prince Edward Island
This 19th-century Russian novel begins, “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Anna Karenina
This long-form essay by Joan Didion helped define the art of personal narrative journalism.
The White Album
This is the smallest country in the world; less than half a square kilometre.
Vatican City
This eastern province’s Marble Mountain offers Atlantic Canada’s top skiing near Corner Brook.
Newfoundland and Labrador
Canada’s only desert lies in this British Columbia valley, known for its vineyards and sagebrush
Okanagan Valley