Central Canada and Niagara Falls
Tours to Historic Canada are So Affordable
Toronto – Niagara Falls – Ottawa – French Montreal

Day 1 Arrive in cosmopolitan Toronto, Canada. We are greeted at the airport and our motor coach departs for Niagara Falls. En route, we tour a local winery to learn about production and storage techniques. Check in to our hotel in Niagara Falls region. Dinner is included this evening.

Day 2 Continental breakfast is followed by our orientation tour of Niagara Falls area. We enjoy lunch in a panoramic restaurant and then board the "Maid of the Mist" for the voyage to the base of the 170 foot Niagara Falls. The falls are a fascinating study in the power of erosion. The falls receded about at 3 feet per year until mankind slowed the process. We will learn how. Nearby is the amazing Welland Canal which carries ships, bypassing the falls, to connect Lake Ontario to Lake Erie. The series of locks raises and lowers ships 326 feet! Dinner and overnight in Niagara Falls region.

Day 3 After breakfast we depart for Toronto, Ontario. We enjoy a panoramic tour of Toronto including Casa Loma and a visit of the Skydome and the CN Tower, the largest free-standing structure in the world. The Ontario Science Center has interactive exhibits on sport, space, food, chemistry, transportation and more. Canada’s largest museum is the Royal Ontario Museum, which includes a sprawling display of intellectual delights. The Hockey Hall of Fame holds within its walls a Canadian national treasure, the battered and worn Stanley Cup. Dinner and overnight are in Toronto.
**Groups wishing to spend an additional day in Toronto can visit Fort York, captured twice by American invaders and location of the Battle of York in 1813. Also see the Redpath Sugar Museum, Merrill Collection of Science/Speculation/Fantasy, Arthur Conan Doyle collection of Sherlock Holmes memorabilia and the Black Creek Pioneer Museum. There is so much to see and do in Toronto.

Day 4 Enjoy breakfast and transfer to a photographers delight, Ottawa, Capitol of Canada. We stop for lunch en route in the Thousand Islands Region. This afternoon we are treated to a city tour of Ottawa including the Royal Canadian Mint (first coins minted in 1908) and the Rideau Canal, completed in 1832 at the cost of many lives. Dinner and overnight are in Ottawa.

Day 5 Breakfast and sightseeing tour of Ottawa includes the massive and fascinating Museum of Civilization. After lunch we depart Ottawa for Montreal, the second largest French speaking city in the world. Enjoy a sightseeing tour of Montreal with a colorful local guide. See Mount Royal, Seminary of St. Sulpice, man-made Ile de Notre Dame, the Biosphere Museum, the Olympic Stadium, Chinatown and Old Montreal. Dinner included this evening.

Day 6 Time permitting we tour Montreal city before departing for the airport for the flight home. Please note that flight or motor coach trip home may pre-empt the morning tour.