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AURORA BOREALIS, YELLOWKNIFE, NT • DESTINATION CANADA/TESSA MACINTOSH
all of the modern-day visitors who tweet phenomenon sparked by surges of solar
FISHING, ROWAN’S RAVINE PROVINCIAL PARK, SK •
about the tower or post cellphone pics of it and magnetic energy. You simply have to DESTINATION CANADA/TOURISM SK/GREG HUSZAR
to Facebook and Instagram owe a debt to see the iridescent colours dance across
another trail-blazing Italian, Guglielmo the night sky yourself. An ideal place to do
Marconi. The radio pioneer ushered in the it is the Northwest Territories, where “the
era of global communications when he greatest light show on Earth” is visible
received the fi rst transatlantic wireless about 240 days a year. The absence of
signal here on December 12, 1901 (www. light pollution in Wood Buff alo National
parkscanada.gc.ca/signalhill). Park—Canada’s largest national park and
the world’s largest Dark Sky Preserve—
A DECIDELY DIFFERENT creates top viewing opportunities from
11 DRINK: YUKON mid-December to mid-March (www.parks
More than a century after the Klondike Gold canada.gc.ca/woodbuff alo).
Rush ended, Dawson City is still a place
where “strange things are done in the SINKING
midnight sun.” If you want proof—about 40 13 SENSATIONS:
proof to be precise—head to the Sourdough NUNAVUT
Saloon in the Downtown Hotel and order a Nunavut doesn’t make headlines often,
Sourtoe Cocktail. The off -beat beverage has but in 2014 the news went viral: after 168
one key ingredient that hip mixologists years, the HMS Erebus—one of the ships
tend to overlook—namely a dehydrated from the ill-fated Franklin Expedition—
human toe. To become a certifi cate-carrying had been discovered in its icy waters by
member of the Cocktail Club, you can drink Parks Canada archaeologists. The feat was
your shot fast or you can drink it slow, “but repeated in 2016 when her sister ship, the
your lips must touch the toe” (www. HMS Terror was located. Sir John Franklin,
downtownhotel.ca/sourtoe-cocktail). his crew and both vessels disappeared in
1846 while trying to traverse the Northwest
CELESTIAL SIGHTS: Passage—and gain a lucrative trade route
12 NORTHWEST between the Atlantic and Pacifi c. Finding
TERRITORIES them helps solve one of the world’s great
Neither words nor pictures can truly convey marine mysteries (www.parkscanada.gc.
the beauty of the aurora borealis, a natural ca/franklin). 
