Great ideas for a festive Canada Day

Canada-grown treats
Eat your way across Canada
Enjoy a cross-country tour of our culinary home. From east to west, get a taste of what each great Canadian province has to offer.


Made in Canada
July 1 is the day to appreciate how fortunate we are to call Canada our culinary home. From sea to sea to sea, we shop at a lavishly provisioned store and from it set a pretty fine table. This multitude of blessings is what got The Canadian Living Test Kitchen into a tizzy of excitement as we contemplated celebrating July 1 with recipes featuring our finest homegrown ingredients. But what to choose? And how to set the limits...

Photo gallery: Editor's choice – Made-in-Canada beauty products
Support homegrown companies! Try these innovative, 100 per cent Canadian beauty products.



Photo gallery quiz: What's that berry?
Canada is home to a huge variety of berries that grow all summer long. Can you identify these 11 berry varieties?


Great Canadian Cheese Platter
Canada produces excellent cheeses from coast to coast. Though most are from large, high-quality factories, there are many small-scale cheese makers perfecting artisanal cheeses. Fig and Wine Conserve, Red Onion Marmalade or Sweet Ginger Almonds all make great additions to your cheese board, as well as fresh fruit. As a rule, buy 1 to 1-1/2 oz (30 to 45 g) of each type of cheese you're serving per person.

Gone fishing
The smell of open water, a forest of boat masts, a web of mooring ropes, the silhouette of a bird on a pole, kaleidoscopic piles of netting, and the wail of sea birds all lead toward the destination: pails of crabs skittering atop one another; sacks of fresh mussels; glimmering, silvery-scaled fish; jellylike squid; and glistening orange, pink, and white fish fillets. Fresh fish and seafood can be a sensory delight! Nourish your connection with local food by savouring locally caught fish and seafood -- and meeting the people involved in the harvest.

The Canadian people
What makes us Canadian?
Read other CanadianLiving.com readers' responses to this question, and submit your own ideas to feedback@canadianliving.com.


True north strong and free
To be Canadian is to be proud. I am free to choose the many facets that make up my life: language, religion, education, whom I will marry, how many children I will have, my right to vote for elected officials and my career if I choose to have one. To be Canadian is indeed a blessing. To be a Canadian woman is a double blessing. -Karen Slaunwhite, Oromocto, NB

Canada's greenest communities
Visit six of the most eco-happy places in Canada. They'll make you want to pick up and move.


Canadian travel planner
Options abound when planning a trip in Canada. Let Canadian Living take the guesswork out of choosing a perfect destination for your family's next vacation!


Canadian crafts

8 Canada Day crafts
Searching for ways to up the festive factor of Canada Day? Check out these easy and fun kid-friendly crafts

Family Craft: Canada Day Bird
Our crafty maple-leaf birds are so simple that even young children will want to make their own. String your birds into a garland to drape across your front window, porch or picnic table. Or precut all the pieces, then let everyone sit on the grass -- to fold and glue and dot the eyes -- at the family cottage reunion.

Quilt Canada!
Few countries can claim the exhilarating contrasts between summer, winter, spring and fall that Canada does. So it seemed natural to New Brunswick quilter and teacher Lois Wilby-Hooper to celebrate these dramatic differences by designing a Canadian Seasons quilt. Changing seasons have inspired artists, poets and songwriters, so why not quilters? “I'm greatly influenced by the landscape and seasons of this area,” Lois says. “They are reflected in most of my designs.”


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