Good country, exhausting tourist industry

Canada is a genuinely beautiful and interesting place. Niagara Falls is worth every superlative thrown at it. The fresh maple syrup is legitimately excellent. spectacular wilderness gave the trip real depth.

What I struggled with: the tourist infrastructure around the headline sites in Montreal is relentlessly commercial and winter can be brutal is a genuine friction point. You can feel the gap between authentic Canada and the packaged version sold to tourists. The authentic version wins, but you have to work to find it.