Canada

Canada’s scale is extraordinary, stretching from Atlantic fishing villages and the forests of Québec to the Rocky Mountains and Pacific coast. Its cities offer an equally varied architectural landscape: Montréal combines historic stone buildings with bold Modernism, Toronto continually reinvents its industrial heritage, while Vancouver has developed a distinctly West Coast relationship between architecture and nature. Beyond the cities, contemporary cabins, wilderness lodges and remote retreats demonstrate how strongly Canadian design responds to landscape.

Food and drink are just as regional. Québec brings French culinary traditions and an influential restaurant culture, the Atlantic provinces some of the world’s finest seafood, while the Pacific coast looks naturally towards both the ocean and Asia. Indigenous ingredients and traditions are gaining greater recognition, and across the country independent restaurants, craft breweries, natural wine bars and ambitious chefs are developing a more distinctly Canadian culinary identity.

Canada’s most interesting hotels often make the country’s vastness part of the experience. Historic city landmarks and converted industrial buildings contrast with lakeside cabins, mountain lodges and architect-designed wilderness retreats where nature begins just beyond the door. At DNA Hotels, we curate the places where architecture, food, landscape and cultural identity come together—hotels that offer a more personal way to experience one of the world’s biggest countries.