I was just looking through the Michelin green guide (late last week) to
get a sense of recommendations for eastern Canada (for a trip this
summer). It looked pretty good.
Also for BC, I've used the AAA/CAA tourbook for Alaska and Western
Canada before. It was also a good guide book.
Otherwise, most of the provincial tourism websites also provide a
wealth of information. I usually start with something like that and
then go look in a guide book or two to try to help me prioritize. I
tend to look in all of the "main" commercial guide books available and
take advantage of some of their apparent age/income biases just to get
a little bit better idea of what to expect, etc. For example, I find
that the Let's Go guides tend to be geared towards student and/or
budget travelers and that the Frommer's/Fodor's guides tend to be more
for retirees and/or people with more disposable income (who probably
don't like a lot of surprises when they travel). My experience with
the Lonely Planet and TimeOut guides give me the impression that they
are both targeting younger travelers, but not necessarily students. My
opinion is that the Michelin and AAA guides mentioned above are more
age-neutral.
That's a long answer to a short question. The short answer to the
short question is that if you're in a place for a year, you'll get to
know people there and if they're even remotely proud of their home
and/or pleased with their surroundings, then they're going to volunteer
suggestions for what to see and where to go and may even want to take
you there themselves. Any guidebook or website will be secondary to
their advice.
:-Dan
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