Canada-wide
- The Canadian Abilities Foundation: The Canadian Abilities Foundation convenes a forum for the exchange of information to promote an inclusive society and provide inspiration and opportunity for people with disabilities. This includes discussing accessible travel options.
- Easter Seals - Disability Travel Card: The Disability Travel Card™ provides identification to a person with a permanent disability, which will allow an adult attendant, traveling with the person with a disability, to travel at a reduced fee.
British Columbia
- British Columbia Aboriginal Network on Disability Society (BCANDS): Listing of recreation, travel and leisure organizations serving the needs of the Indigenous population of British Columbia.
- Citizens for Accessible Neighbourhoods - Adaptive Sports Guide: A listing of adaptive sports and recreation for people with disabilities.
Alberta
- Move and Mingle Exercise Program: Exercise program and fall prevention education.
- University of Calgary - Fitness Program for People with Disabilities: This program provides individuals with physical disabilities the opportunity to continue their rehabilitative and fitness goals in a community setting.
- Village Square Leisure Centre / Southland Leisure Centre: A variety of programs that are accessible for people with disabilities.
Saskatchewan
- Saskatchewan Abilities Council - Disability Travel Card Program: This program provides an identification card which will allow one adult attendant travelling with the person with a disability to travel at no cost.
- Saskatchewan Abilities Council - Quality of Life: Recreation Programs: The council is dedicated to providing client-centred and innovative recreational programs that offer opportunities for community connection, friendship, and fun.
Manitoba
- Recreation, Leisure and Accessible Sport: Offers programming for children, youth and adults who experience barriers to activities.
Ontario
- West GTA Stroke Network - Community Resources: Downloadable community resource book with listings of stroke resources available for the residents of West GTA.
- Ontario Home & Vehicle Modification Program: Funded by the Ontario Government Ministry for Seniors and Accessibility, March of Dimes Canada’s Home and Vehicle Modification Program provides funding for basic home and/or vehicle modifications.
- Heart Wise Exercise: Heart Wise Exercise (HWE) works with community physical activity providers to designate facilities, programs and classes where individuals can exercise regularly to prevent or limit the effects of living with a chronic health condition.
- The Healthline: Enter your community name or a postal code to find health and community services in Ontario.
Quebec
- Polio Québec - Leisure and Activities: A list of resources and services allowing for accessible activities.
- L’Axone: L’Axone provides stroke patients with organized physical activities, dinner and conferences.
- Kéroul - Tourism and Culture for People with Restricted Abilities: Kéroul is a non-profit organization which, through information and lobbying, promotes and develops accessible tourism and culture.
- Quebec for All: Québec for all is a database of over 1,700 tourism and cultural organizations and businesses assessed by Kéroul and certified fully or partially accessible, spread across 21 regions of Québec.
New Brunswick
- Nova Scotia Health and Wellness - Out-of-Province Travel and Accommodation Assistance Assistance to residents approved to travel out of province for insured medical care
- Ability NB - Sport, Recreation, and Active Living: Ability NB offers adapted sport, recreation and active living clinics to engage persons with spinal cord injuries and all mobility
Nova Scotia
- Pauline Potter Fitness Centre: This fitness centre is wheelchair accessible, accessible to people with vision problems and offers safe air resistance weights.
- Tea and Tango: A tango class in Halifax for individuals with motor impairments that focuses on balance and posture.
- Abilities in Motion (A.I.M.): Fully accessible fitness programming for individuals with neurological disorders. Designed to provide opportunities through fitness for a healthy lifestyle.
Prince Edward Island
- AccessAbility Supports: The program supports Islanders with physical, intellectual, neurological, sensory and/or mental disabilities who experience substantial impairments in their activities of daily living.
- Health PEI - Out-of-Province Travel Support Program: Cost assistance to travel with Maritime Bus for non-emergency medical services in New Brunswick or Nova Scotia.
Newfoundland & Labrador
- Recreation Newfoundland and Labrador - Inclusive Recreation: Inclusive recreation offers individuals of all abilities the opportunity to freely participate and to lead healthy, active lives.
Nunavut
- Nunavut Health and Social Services - Medical Travel: Health and Social Services offers medical travel benefits to make sure you have access to medical services that are not available in your home community.
- Nunavummi Disabilities MakinnaSuaqtit Society: The NDMS believes persons with disabilities have the right to the supports necessary to take part in their choice of community activities and to participate in society without physical and social barriers.
Northwest Territories
- Health and Social Services - NWT Medical Travel: This guide provides tips and information that can be used by all NWT residents for their medical travel, regardless of their benefits program.
- Elders in Motion: The Elders in Motion Program aims to improve access to physical activity opportunities for NWT elders.
- NWT Seniors Society: The NWT Seniors Society provides useful information about the resources and programs available for seniors in the NWT.
Yukon
- Active Living Alliance for Canadians with a Disability (ALACD): The ALACD is a national network that was created in 1989 to motivate and assist Canadians with a disability to become more physically active.
Phone: 1-800-771-0663 | (613) 244-0052
TTY: 1-888-771-0663 | (613) 244-0008 - Health and Social Services - Community Day Program: This program offers daily recreational activities, therapeutic programs, socialization and maintaining their daily routines and independence.
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