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eh Canada, check us out!


By Tania Moffat


Canadian Brothers, Colin and Greg Girard, are changing the way Canadian tourism is promoted online as they continue expanding eastward.


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h Canada Travel & Adventure, headquartered in British Columbia, is the largest privately-operated Canadian website and the only booking, planning and interactive website in Canada. Tis social travel,


interactive website covers over 365 communities, 4500 parks, trails, historic sites, beaches, lakes, rivers and more. Te site experience is enhanced with over 16,000 photos — all com- plimented by an award-winning blog and supported by 12 social media channels. Colin and Greg Girard, the founders of eh Canada, have spent the last eight years on the road researching Canada from Tofino, B.C. to Cape Spear, New- foundland in order to provide users with an accurate portrayal of our beautiful nation. "Our mission is to connect Canada on one website, not


just for booking accommodations and attractions, but also for planning and researching activity destinations, therefore extending seasons and increasing the length of stays in the region," said Greg Girard, Chief Tourism Marketing Officer.


thehubwinnipeg.com How eh was founded Colin, Chief Technical Officer/Head Guru, has been in-


volved in the global tourism community since 1990. Begin- ning in Jasper, Alberta he worked his way up the managerial ladder. In 2000, he took his several years of website design and search engine optimization to branch out on his own — creating a community website for the town of Sidney, B.C. on Vancouver Island. Today, that website has grown into a network of communities spanning across western and northern Canada called, eh Canada Travel & Adventure. Greg’s extensive experience in sales, marketing, research


and business development had brought him to Dresden, Germany where he was working as an International Mar- keting Director for a software publishing company. In 2002, he made a life changing decision and left his job for a qual- ity lifestyle and partnered up with his brother to grow their nine tourism websites. In 2013, eh Canada Travel & Adven- ture was created.


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