If you’ve been receiving short-term or long-term disability benefits, you may be asking “can you travel while on disability?” Canada is a country full of amazing places to visit, and if you take the 

necessary precautions before leaving on your trip, there should be no reasons to worry or stress about taking some time for yourself, provided that your health care providers have no objections to you travelling, and also subject to the specific terms of your disability policy which may have some travel restrictions (particularly for travel outside Canada).

Here are some unique places to visit across the country this summer.

Alberta

Alberta Railway Museum (Edmonton)

The Alberta Pioneer Railway Association has been gathering and preserving a growing railway collection since the 1970s which now includes more than 75 locomotives, passenger and freight cars, track maintenance and industrial equipment, and buildings from across Northern Alberta. Volunteers at the park also give rides on a small steam engine for visitors and if you’re a cat lover, the outdoor museum is also home to a group of friendly farm cats who love attention.  

The Nose Hill Siksikaitsitapi Medicine Wheel (Calgary)

This First Nations monument is a peaceful spot with vast views of the Calgary prairie. Members of the Blood Tribe built the medicine wheel in 2015 as part of an annual Blackfoot Confederacy conference. The wheel takes the shape of the Siksikaitsitapi logo, which represents the Blood, Siksika, and Northern and Southern Peigan tribes, the four tribes that form the confederation.

British Columbia

Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden (Vancouver)

This traditional 15th century Chinese Garden in the middle of Vancouver is based on the garden homes of Ming Dynasty scholars and officials and is the first such garden constructed outside of China. Regular events in the garden include concerts, yoga lessons, and tai chi lessons. It also has a variety of unusual and seasonal events.

Moss Lady (Victoria)

The Moss Lady was constructed in 2015 and looks like she could be an identical twin to the Mud Maid in Cornwall’s Lost Gardens of Heligan. In fact, the Canadian version was directly inspired by the English artwork. A small stream gurgles nearby, making it seem like the woman was lulled to sleep by a watery lullaby. Carved wooden chairs and couches provide a calm resting spot for walkers who want to soak in the relaxing ambience.

Manitoba

Canadian Museum For Human Rights (Winnipeg)

This unique museum was designed by American architect Antoine Predock, who took his inspiration from the Canadian landscape. It is the first museum in the world dedicated to the history and understanding of human rights. The museum’s 10 core galleries examine a range of topics related to human rights, with themes including “Indigenous Perspectives,” “Canadian Journeys” and “Examining the Holocaust.”

Brandon Riverbank (Brandon)

When you visit the Brandon Riverbank, take time to enjoy the wind rustling through the marsh, birds chirping in the distance, and those vast prairie blue skies that seem to go on forever. Make sure to spend time on the floating dock and you may be able to spot a few birds. While you’re there, you can also stop at the Riverbank Discovery Centre for more information on Brandon.

New Brunswick

Moncton Tidal Bore (Moncton)

On the Petitcodiac River, the considerable tidal range and high waters of the Bay of Fundy force the river’s water to roll back in on itself, becoming a 1-to-24 inch wave that — improbably — travels against the current. As if a backwards river wasn’t a surreal enough sight, the single wave is often accompanied by its fan club – enterprising surfers looking for a different kind of ride This is a perfect example of how something that happens every day can still be completely remarkable.

Fredericton Botanic Garden (Fredericton)

In 1990, the City of Fredericton dedicated a 53-acre property at the west end of Odell Park to this garden. The goals of the garden include providing a recreational opportunity to the public by means of walks, interpretive trails, and beautiful displays of flowers and foliage. The Garden also uses tried and untried plant species and varieties so the public has a hands-on demonstration of plant hardiness. In addition, the Garden hopes to educate people of all ages to appreciate plants and to learn how plants coexist in natural settings

Newfoundland and Labrador

Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador Botantical Garden (St. John’s)

A place to explore and play, the MUN Botanical Garden has cultivated gardens and meandering trails nestled in a spectacular boreal forest. Visitors can discover beautiful displays of native and exotic plants, perennial and vegetable gardens, with a few surprises along the way. You can also explore five breathtaking trails that wander through trees, waterways, wetlands and scenic vistas and become immersed in nature with over 250 species of vascular plants, 120 species of birds and 26 species of butterflies.

Signal Hill (St. John’s)

Signal Hill was the site where Guglielmo Marconi received the world’s first transatlantic wireless signal in 1901. Visitors today can visit Cabot Tower, which contains an exhibit on the Nobel Award-winning Marconi and his achievements, as well as hike an extensive trail system along the cliffs to enjoy views of the Atlantic Ocean and frequent whale sightings. During the summer, tourists can view a performance of the Signal Hill Tattoo, which showcases reenactors dressed as Newfoundland regiments from 1812 and 1917, complete with full military uniforms, drills, battle tactics, and a cannon exhibition, all accurate to the appropriate periods.

Northwest Territories

Inuvik Community Greenhouse (Inuvik)

This former hockey arena includes a 4,000-square-foot commercial greenhouse and 180 individual plots maintained by community members. People grow plants not usually found in the arctic: spinach, lettuce, carrots, tomatoes, strawberries, squash, and even occasionally watermelon. Flowers are also a common find. The greenhouse’s growing season lasts from May to late September.

Boat Trip on the Mackenzie Delta (Inuvik)

You simply should not leave Invuik without a boat trip on the Mackenzie Delta (during the summer months of course). Whether you paddle a kayak or jump on a motorized boat, travelling through the narrow waterways is such a beautiful and amazing experience. You might see beavers gathering wood, massive eagles flying overhead, or hundreds of tundra swans congregating on a nearby lake. 

Nova Scotia

McNab’s Island (Halifax)

McNab’s Island in Halifax harbour was settled by Peter McNab and his family in the 1780s where descendants lived until 1934. The island has lain mostly abandoned since World War II and is now an impressive collection of abandoned structures of all sorts: three abandoned military forts, a cholera quarantine epidemic potters field, ruins of old family homes from the island’s few inhabitants, a family burial plot, a former soda pop factory that ran bootleg booze during prohibition, a shipwreck cove, a beach where English redcoats hung navy deserters during the Napoleonic Wars, a forgotten lighthouse, a former Edwardian fairground, and the remnants of a cultivated Victorian botanical garden.

Old Burying Ground (Halifax)

This National Heritage Site was first established in 1749 with the founding of the settlement and stopped accepting bodies in 1844 before many Canadian cities were founded. The small lot on Barrington, on the south edge of the downtown core, holds a reported 12,000 bodies, only 1,300 of which are represented by haphazardly placed gravestones. Perhaps the most notable interment is Major General Robert Ross, responsible for the barely-effective yet oft-cited burning of the White House in 1814. He died in Baltimore, in the Battle of North Point; his body was shipped home in a barrel of rum and interred with great ceremony. 

Nunavut

Auyuittuq National Park (Pangnirtung): Auyuittuq National Park is home to Mount Thor, which is famous for being the mountain with the highest vertical drop in the world — over 4,000 feet! Experts might put summiting Mount Thor on their bucket list, but for everyone else Auyuittuq National Park is full of amazing experiences including tours into the Arctic Circle, traversing fjords, skiing and hiking.

Ellesmere Island Mummified Forest (Ellesmere Island)

This rare mummified forest was discovered in December 2010 by researchers from Ohio State University. The forest contains at least four different species of wood and tree leaves. The researcher responsible for its discovery found that the trees had been covered by an avalanche sometime between two and eight million years ago. They have been perfectly preserved. 

This is the 12th frozen forest that has been discovered in the Arctic, but it’s the furthest north, on the edge of where a forest could possibly grow. Scientists plan to test parts of the trees to determine the environmental conditions at the time the forest was covered by the avalanche, which will help them understand the climate and its changes over millions of years.

Ontario

Toronto Music Garden (Toronto)

In the 1990s, acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma and other musicians made a six-part film inspired by Johann Sebastian Bach’s Suites for Unaccompanied Cello. For the first part of the film, Ma and landscape architect Julie Moir Messervy together interpreted the music of Bach’s Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007 to design a physical garden. The plants in the garden were chosen to represent each of the Bach suite’s six dance movements: Prelude, Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, Menuett, and Gigue. The final dance area, also written as Jig, contains an amphitheatre built into a grassy knoll where musicians perform free concerts during the summer.

Riverdale Farm (Toronto)

Riverdale Farm is a working farm located in Toronto’s downtown Cabbagetown neighbourhood. Visitors to the 7.5-acre property will get a first-hand taste of farm life, from raising livestock (cows, pigs, sheep, goats and chickens) to the year-round handwork and craft programs in The Meeting House. The property features flower, vegetable and herb gardens, as well as wooded areas and ponds connected to the city’s rich ravine system. The farm is a popular community meeting place for families from across Toronto and beyond.

Prince Edward Island

The International Fox Museum (Summerside)
If you visited PEI in the early 20th century, you might have met scores of fox ranchers who were racing to breed the animals in captivity in order to sell their pelts. The Museum and Hall of Fame charts the unique story of how fox ranching created a booming economy, and hit several busts, too. Fox ranching declined once and for all after World War II. Some owners, who could no longer make a profit, set their foxes loose, and the animals continue to populate the island to this day. 

Edouard Arsenault Bottle Houses (Wellington County)

In 1979, at the age of 66 Edouard Arsenault, inspired by a postcard sent to him by his daughter depicting a glass castle in Vancouver, began collecting and cleaning the glass bottles that would eventually comprise the three stunning structures that continue to draw visitors today. The first and largest of these structures is known as the Six-Gabled House; it is composed of roughly 12,000 bottles cemented together and measures 20 x 14 feet. Following the house’s completion, Arsenault went on to build the Tavern (8,000 bottles) and the Chapel (10,000 bottles), which includes pews and an altar.

Quebec

Canadian Centre for Architecture Sculpture Garden (Montreal)

This sculpture garden was designed by Montreal artist-architect Melvin Charney, who spent 10 years fine-tuning its transformation from a traffic island into a park. It opened in 1990. Charney called his creations “allegorical columns,” and saw them as a synthesis of architecture, landscape, and sculpture. “The chairs in the garden are set in the sky,” he wrote, “for the comfort of the imagination.” With names such as “The Obelisk-Chimney” and “The Temple-Silo,” they reference the ever-changing cityscape and architectural legacy of Montreal.

Musee du Fort (Québec City)

Québec’s historic district features a quaint and cozy museum that offers an original sound and light show illustrating the 18th-century French resistance to Britain over Québec. The stories of all six sieges are presented, including the famous battle of the Plains of Abraham, and Benedict Arnold’s march to Québec. The show lasts half an hour, and includes a 400 square-foot model representing the city in 1750. The museum is located in front of the famous Chateau Frontenac.

Saskatchewan

Wascana Centre (Regina)
Established in 1962, this beautifully landscaped park surrounds a 120-hectare lake located in the heart of Regina and includes 2,300 acres of urban land. It also includes other attractions such as Candy Cane Park, the Royal Saskatchewan Museum, the Saskatchewan Science Centre, MacKenzie Art Gallery, and more. The centre is home to 8.7 kilometres of paved pathways and 5.6 kilometres of natural paths, recreation, and play areas as well as the Habitat Conservation Area with a marsh ecosystem, promoting healthy active lifestyles for families and the community. 

Wanuskewin (Saskataoon)

Wanuskewin is a Heritage Park that continues celebrating the First Nations of the Plains with guided walks, a shop offering Native-made goods, and a menu inspired by the natural bounty of the Great Plains landscape—including bison, which people native to this area have hunted for thousands of years. To digest your meal, take a stroll through the park to view any of the 19 archaeological sites that have been part of Canada’s longest-running dig. Indigenous and non-indigenous visitors alike are welcome to walk the land, sample its bounty at the cafe, and feel what continues to make Wanuskewin a vital sanctuary.

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