Best route: Chicago to Newfoundland

I question going to Canada quick from Chicago. You will have to go through Michigan to get to Ontario quickly. There is a lot more on the East (Michigan) side of Lake Michigan. We have sand dunes all the way from Indiana to the Sleeping Bear Dunes Nat. Lakeshore, See Mackinac Island, and then cross to Canada at Sault Ste. Marie. Sudbury has Science North and the nickel mine, Petawawa has a large military museum (free) Pembroke has murals on any vacant wall in downtown. Renfrew has Rocky Mountain Schnitzel House for a great meal. Ottawa is the National capital with museums, changing of the guard at Parliament Hill, and all the Embassies. I avoid Quebec since my last experience there. If you don't speak French you are despised in many places. I have been to most provinces in Canada and been treated great in all of the rest. If you enjoy lobster you will find many great places by small creeks and rivers with reasonable lobster meals. My daughter had lobster for 5 meals in a row, including breakfast. I want to get to Newfoundland myself but haven't been able to put together enough time, I have only been retired 23 years and it is rough to get time.
Last week I was in Algonquin Prov. Park and saw 2 moose in daytime. They are definitely a road hazard worth watching for. If you hit a deer your car is getting damaged. If you hit a moose someone is going to a hospital.