Welcome to Canada’s Eastern Edge, where the sun first rises on North America. A place just east of your imagination — located on Canada’s stunning Atlantic seacoast between New England and Europe, and well connected to the world.
The Eastern Edge is where Canada began as a nation. A place where friendly people will warmly welcome you to share our distinct cultures, delicious cuisine, spectacular scenery and unique lifestyle. It’s an amazing place of contrasts and traditions. A place of bustling modern cities, vibrant fishing villages, beautiful coastlines, and expansive farmlands.
Canada’s Eastern Edge is Atlantic Canada – Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland. We’re proud of our history and traditions and eager to share them through our food, drink, songs and adventures.
Canada’s Eastern Edge is bursting with music, art and culture rooted in the land and the people.
Here you will find breath taking sea side links on world renown golf courses, incredible ocean adventures, a culinary paradise of tastes from our bountiful fisheries and rich, fertile soils, endless scenery to explore, and unrivalled accommodations to enjoy.
Canada’s Eastern Edge is recognized as an emerging location in the global incentive market and Downeast DMC is your partner for discovering unsearchable experiences in this amazing place.
This is the perfect place for your incentive program, destination meeting, conference or convention.
Learn more about how Downeast DMC can be your partner in Incentive Program Building, Destination Meetings, Conference and Convention Support and so much more here on Canada’s Eastern Edge.
Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia — New Scotland — is Canada’s Ocean Playground. A breath-taking coastline links land and sea in this amazingly diverse place. Nova Scotia is the centre of Canada’s Eastern Edge and its energetic capital city Halifax is the hub of commerce, culture and cuisine, home to four universities and Canada’s Atlantic Navy.
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Prince Edward Island
Known to Canadians simply as PEI, this laid back, fertile island of red sand beaches is the food island — a place where fresh and local is an obsession. PEI is home to Chef Michael Smith, Food Network Host and PEI Food Ambassador.
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New Brunswick
New Brunswick is an Eastern Edge wilderness, full of awe-inspiring nature. A place of untamed rivers brimming with fish, and forests abundant with moose, dear and bear. It’s where whales rise from the sea and seals play in the surf.
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Newfoundland
Newfoundland — The Rock — is a magnificent and extraordinary island thrusting its craggy face into the North Atlantic. It is the most easterly point of North America and an Eastern Edge treasure. Newfoundlanders are the friendliest people you will ever meet, and that’s saying something here in the Eastern Edge. Their hospitality has been immortalized in Broadway’s Come From Away! and will never disappoint.
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