Where to visit on Canada’s east coast, from the Atlantic islands to urban Ottawa

Canada is big. In every sense. It is the world’s second-largest country, with beefy mountains, lakes too legion to count and oodles of barely tramped space. It is also big with tourists, especially after the BBC’s 2023 instalment of Race Across the World, which followed contestants travelling 9,900 miles across Canada. Newmarket Holidays (newmarketholidays.co.uk) saw interest in the country spike after the series, with bookings up two and a half times on 2022, while Canada consistently ranks amo