Relaxation doesn’t come naturally to everyone, so when I grudgingly slipped into the steamy, mineral-rich water at Radium Hot Springs, I couldn’t help but think of that deadly day in 1967 when a semi truck hauling gasoline lost control on the steep mountain highway nearby and crashed, killing the driver and spilling more than 7,000 gallons of fuel into the creek that ran beside the hot pool and under the main stone building.

Parks Canada and Pacheedaht First Nation have signed a ground-breaking agreement that returns the use of ?A:?b?e:?s (Middle Beach) in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve to the Nation in advance of Treaty settlement.

From the quiet confines of an archaeological crypt under Dufferin Terrace in Québec City, I point my camera up towards a glass dormer called an “archaescope” and capture what feels like a unique shot of the most photographed hotel in the world.

Parks Canada has closed all waterbodies and shorelines in Yoho National Park and Kootenay National Park until March 31 after finding a suspected case of whirling disease.