Canadian World Heritage Properties
This week’s senior’s journey is to Canada where we learn about the Canadian World Heritage Properties that should be visited. Canada has many cultural and natural locations that have been determined to be of considerable importance to our past. Therefore they are also significant to our future. Cultural Properties Properties inscribed on the list that pertain to cultural locations are scattered across Canada and easily accessible to any senior traveler who wishes to visit them.
1. By traveling to the island of Newfoundland and making your way to the very tip of the Great Northern Peninsula you will find the L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site. This site provides the earliest evidence that the Europeans settled in the New World. The excavating has unearthed similar wood framed peat-turf buildings to those found in Greenland. 2. Southern Alberta’s Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump 
is an excellent example of the hunting practices of the aboriginal people spanning over 6,000 years.The deep layers of buffalo bones continued to grow into the 19th century and were formed when the hunters drove the buffalo over the cliff as a way of hunting them. 3. SGang Gwaay can be found on a small island off the Queen Charlottes on the west coast of British Columbia. It is an excellent example of the Haida’s life of hunting and fishing. Senior travel groups will appreciate seeing the ruins of the Haida’s houses and artistically illustrated mortuary poles. 4. If any elderly traveler wishes to see an example of a fortified city then a trip to the Historic District of Old Québec is definitely in order. It was once the capital of New France and then the new British Colony after 1760.
5. Another historic site that is actually still in operation is Ontario’s Rideau Canal with most of its original construction still intact. Any senior travel person or senior travel club can see and use this excellent example of a slackwater canal.
6. Old Town Lunenburg in Nova Scotia was a planned settlement. Located where it was first developed by the British in 1753 it still functions in its original archaeological design. 
Many of the wooden houses from the 18th century have been preserved and still stand today. The economics were mostly based on off-shore fishing which continues today as one of the source of income for the residents. Senior travel clubs can plan to see these significant sites as a yearly adventure by their elderly members or incorporate them into educational programs for their learning enjoyment. Whether the senior travel person visits these properties in person or by studying them from the comfort of their home they are all worth learning about. My advice to you is for all seniors to call their friends to plan an adventure by visiting these Canadian World Heritage Properties. Take advantage of off season senior travel deals – it won’t be as congested at any of these locations.
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