F2

Stumble Upon

del.icio.us

Digg

Facebook

Print

Email

Speak Up

Accommodations

Algonquin makes magazine's Stay List

The editors at National Geographic Traveler picked 13 Canadian hotels for their second annual "Stay List." The 129 hotels displayed "a transcendent vision that goes beyond traditional hotel-keeping" The Canadian hotels span the country, from Clayoquot Wilderness Resort in British Columbia to Chanterelle Country Inn on Cape Breton. The other Canadian hotels were: Island Lake Lodge, Fernie, B.C.; Hastings House Country House Hotel, Salt Spring Island, B.C.; Sonora Resort, Sonora Island, B.C.; Lazy Bear Lodge and Cafe, Churchill, Man.; Fairmont Algonquin, St. Andrews, N.B.; Crown Jewel Resort Ranch, Cape Breton Island, N.S.; Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, Ont.; Hotel Nelligan, Montreal, Que.; Auberge Place D'Armes, Quebec City, Que.; Bombay Peggy's Victorian Inn & Pub, Dawson City, Yukon; and Inn on the Lake, Whitehorse, Yukon.

Museum

Oshkosh spotlights 'Public Enemies' era

OSHKOSH, Wis. - Crews from the forthcoming movie Public Enemies spent more than three weeks in Oshkosh doing setup and filming, drawing huge crowds hoping to glimpse the movie's star Johnny Depp. Now, the Oshkosh Public Museum plans to mark the film's July 1 opening and educate visitors on Depression-era crime with "The Era of Public Enemies: A Wave of Crime in a Troubled Time." Artifacts include the death mask of John Dillinger, the bank robber Depp portrays in the movie.

Guide

Book features more than 1,000 spots

NEW YORK - Here's a book sure to inspire armchair travel, if not a real road trip: Off the Beaten Path lists more than 1,000 destinations in 50 states. The $30 (U.S.) coffee-table hardcover is organized by state and offers listings from the funky and obscure Barbed Wire Museum in LaCrosse, Kan., to a visit with native Alaskan Inupiats 53 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle.