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Canada Ski Holidays

The Great White North sounds like the perfect place for a ski holiday, and you'd be right. Canada might be known for its most famous winter sport of hockey, but pull out your vacation planners because a ski holiday in the land of Mounties and maple leaves is calling your name.

While you might think a Canadian ski holiday would limit you to the mountainous western parts of the country, you'd be wrong. You can find skiing opportunities from New Brunswick to Vancouver.

Poley Mountain in New Brunswick has 22 trails and offers downhill, cross-country and snowboarding. Other ski destinations across New Brunswick include Mont Farlagne, Sugarloaf Provincial Park and Crabbe Mountain.

In Nova Scotia, even closer to the Atlantic, you'll find four ski holiday resorts - Ski Cape Smokey, Ski Ben Eoin, Ski Wentworth and Ski Martock.

Tiny Prince Edward Island, likely more famous for being the setting of the Anne of Green Gables stories, has one ski destination - Brookvale Winter Park. The park just offers skiable terrain, however, no facilities.

Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada's easternmost province, is home to three ski holiday areas - Whitehills Ski Area, Marble Mountain Resort and Copper Creek Mountain.

Quebec's French background gives many of its resorts beautiful names such as Le Centre de Plein Air du Mont Chalco, Station de ski Gallix, Loisirs Mont Castor and Pin Rouge. Other locations have different but equally attractive names and facilities. Edelweiss Valley just sounds lovely. Owl's Head and Gray Rocks sound like they could be challenging.

Ontario's ski holiday destinations range from Loch Lomond Ski Area near Lake Superior to Kingston Ski Hill near Lake Ontario. One of my favorite ski area names - Calabogie Peaks Resort.

If you want to visit the middle of Canada, four ski areas are located in Manitoba. These include Assessippi Ski Area and Winter Park, Ski Valley, Stony Mountain Ski Area and Falcon Ridge Ski Area.

Next door in Saskatchewan, six areas are available for skiing. Table Mountain, Ski Timber and Wapit Valley are the northernmost locations.

As expected, the Rocky Mountain region of Canada, a large part of which is in Alberta, is home to a large number of ski resorts - 30, in fact. Some examples are Whispering Pines, Ski Banff, Nakiska, Kinosoo Ridge and Pass Powderkeg.

British Columbia is home to 37 ski holiday areas, including two on Vancouver Island. These ski areas continue to have fun an enticing names like Troll Ski Resort, Red Mountain, Kicking Horse Mountain and Mt. Baldy.

Finally, the Yukon Territory offers the Mt. Simi Ski Area and Watson Lake Ski Club.

To learn more about ski holiday opportunities in Canada, visit the Ski and Snowboard Canada Web site at http://www.skicanada.org/site/