Maps
The free maps issued by each province, and available at all the tourist offices, are excellent for general driving and route planning, especially as they provide the broad details of ferry connections. The best of the commercially produced maps are those published by Rand McNally, also available bound together in their Rand McNally Road Atlas of North America . In the case of hiking and canoe routes, all the national and most of the provincial parks have visitors' centres, which provide free parkland maps indicating hiking and canoe trails. Many of them also sell proper local survey maps, as do lots of outfitters and some of the provincial parks' departments, whose details are given in the Guide or can be obtained through the toll-free numbers. If you want to be absolutely sure of getting the maps you need for independent wilderness travel, contact the Canada Map Office , 130 Bentley Ave, Nepean, Ontario K1A 0E9 (tel 613/952-7000 or 1-800/465-6277). It supplies map indexes, which will identify the map you need; it also produces a useful brochure entitled Topographic Basics and publishes two main series of maps, 1:250 000 and 1:50 000.
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