Dreamscapes Travel & Lifestyle Magazine
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DREAMSCAPES SPRING/SUMMER 2015 46 TRAVEL SLEUTH >> BY JANE STOKES DS GO FOR THE HISTORY OUR CRAVING TO SEE AND KNOW MORE OF THE WORLD is often linked to our longing to learn more about its history. Our getaways, after all, are golden opportunities to see and touch the past, to walk on sacred ground, to study museum treasures, and to ask questions in destinations brimming with age-old stories to tell. There is no shortage of human- history sagas in Canada and the United States. TOP: Take in the magnificent view of Central Park and the Manhattan skyline from the Mandarin Hotel. NYC & Co./Marley White RIGHT: Stop in and chat with shop owners in El Barrio, the Spanish Harlem neighbourhood of Manhattan. NYC & Co./Julienne Schaer OPPOSITE TOP LEFT: Boaters can navigate the 202-kilometre Rideau Canal from Ottawa to Kingston. OTMPC OPPOSITE BOTTOM CENTRE: Cruise the mighty Mississippi aboard the elegant American Queen, a luxurious antebellum-style paddlewheeler. American Queen Steamboat Company OPPOSITE TOP RIGHT: The village of Tsiionhiakwatha is identified by historians as "the largest paleohistorical site discovered to date in Québec." Tourisme Montérégie NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK You've been to Broadway, shopped Madison Avenue, taken in the view from the top of the Empire State Building, marvelled at architecture, strolled Central Park, and dined at legendary Big Apple eateries. Now it's time to discover the real Manhattan. Before your next visit, delve into Edward Rutherfurd's historical fiction, New York, a four-century romance about those who shaped this iconic city, starting with the lives of the 17 th -century Dutch families intertwined with indigenous peoples, British, Jewish refugees, Africans, Irish, Ger- mans, Italians, Latin Americans, and more. Then return to the Big Apple and uncover this history yourself. While modern-day Manhattan has grown over many remnants of the past, the founding neighbourhoods are still stirring if you know what to look for: the old Dutch fort foundations at the south- ernmost tip where a bikeway now runs up the Hudson River; the cold beer in Fraunces Tavern, the city's oldest building (1719) where George Washington directed the rev- olution; the Five Points neighbourhood, once a notorious slum and now at the heart of Chinatown and Little Italy; the greenery of Greenwich Village; the upscale Gramercy Park; the long walk along the Upper East Side of Central Park through the hip-hop haven, El Barrio, and north into Harlem at 125 th ; the stroll back south along the Upper West Side with a stop at 72 nd and Strawberry Fields, the pretty parkette tribute to music legend, John Lennon. True discovery of New York City takes a lifetime of visits. nycgo.com