Good map of Canada

your welcome
have a great trip !

hone eagle wrote:


backroad map books


I like these ,includes topo,paddling routes ,trails ,rail ,dirt ,gravel ,ice all kinds of roads very dense.Fishing ,hunting versions,Very large scale .

Nice suggestion... Will be ordering the one for Labrador and Newfoundland.

Thanks

backroad map books


I like these ,includes topo,paddling routes ,trails ,rail ,dirt ,gravel ,ice all kinds of roads very dense.Fishing ,hunting versions,Very large scale .

For maps that have essentially every road write to the Province you wish to visit and get a "grid road map".

The maps from CAA and AAA are quite good, especially if they are Province specific.

When we went to Alaska a few years ago, I purchased a Canada map off Amazon. It was adequate.

Dale

woodhog wrote:
We use these in our work, traveling in a lot of remote areas in the
Maritimes..
They are good maps, you can pick some up in the Walmarts, but probably best to order and have the ones you want.


Good Maps Canada

A Walmart product is still commercial. I can't imagine Walmart with its priorities giving as good information as a province for it's own places. Please see above for more reasons to get 'provincial maps'.

:C

We use these in our work, traveling in a lot of remote areas in the
Maritimes..
They are good maps, you can pick some up in the Walmarts, but probably best to order and have the ones you want.


Good Maps Canada

The most complete maps of Canada are the ones issued by each province.

No commercial map will ever show all there is to show or be up to date. I remember one situation when I worked in Corner Brook and some rvers came to see me. I sent them via a new road which had replace a former railroad track. Their information had nothing about it and sent them a wierd wierd way.

Then I remember having a friend connecting with me in PEI and got one of these on dash things. For a province with a lot of interesting rural places??????????? Do those things think people want to explore historic villages? Seldom.

So, go to www.google.ca , yes, .ca because that's Canada domain and brings up things Canadian over other countries. Search 'name of province and tourism' for each province you may visit. Calling gives you a chance to bring out your special interests. A make sure to ask for a map.

All Canadian provinces have lots of interesting rural features. You find many of these by talking to locals ---- including at grocery stores. When your on a seacoast, 'where do we get the best fish?', 'what is your favourite lobster restaurant?'. 'Is there a place where we can eat lunch and watch whales'?,

& don't forget the visitors centers.

:B

I've been trying to explore Quebec and Labrador on Google. Google likes to hide the roads outside metropolitan areas too unless you zoom so far in.

I will contact the respective provincial tourism bodies and request whatever maps they can provide.

Many thanks!

AAA has some reasonably decent maps of Canada (and provinces and cities) free if you're a member. I think nonmembers can purchase individual maps, but I'm not absolutely positive about that. Their map of all Canada is handy for overall planning.

You should be able to get maps also by writing/calling/emailing the various province's tourism department or whatever their equivalent is. As I recall, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta had pretty nice maps (and probably Ontario, too, though I don't know if I picked one up); Yukon had a perfectly usable one, though not quite so nice (and there really aren't that many roads to worry there anyhow); and the only free BC ones from the tourist info centers were for the territorial parks and were divvied up into about a half dozen regions, each with their own map, which was nice for finding the parks but not quite so nice for planning a substantial trip. The BC park ones were not quite so complete in terms of which roads they had, too.