Canada's Best Small Towns
Harbour villages, mountain outposts and gold-rush relics — the places you go to slow down.
Canada's small towns are where the country's character lives loudest — a lobster wharf in Lunenburg, a gold-rustic saloon in Dawson City, a surf break in Tofino. They're easy to skip on a highway dash between cities, and that's exactly the point: you have to mean to go there. Below, every town in our database, grouped by province.
British Columbia
·6 towns
Tofino
Surfing, rainforest & Pacific storms
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Revelstoke
Powder, parks and the Columbia River in the Monashees
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Osoyoos
Canada's warmest lake and only true desert
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Artsy Kootenay town on Kootenay Lake
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Sea-to-Sky outdoor hub of granite cliffs and trails
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North-coast gateway to bears, salmon and the Inside Passage
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Nova Scotia
·2 towns
Prince Edward Island
·1 town
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