TOUR PACKAGES OFFERED BY TOUR OPERATORS THAT INCLUDE A VISIT TO THE JUNO BEACH CENTRE IN 2025
*If you are a Canadian or international tour operator with an itinerary that includes a visit to the Juno Beach Centre in 2025 and would like to list your tour company here, please contact resa@junobeach.org.
*Tour operators are welcome to make use of our media assets library to advertise their tours.
*We encourage all visitors to conduct thorough research before visiting the JBC, whether they intend to visit with or without a tour operator. If you elect to travel with a tour operator, we encourage you to investigate the packages offered by the Canadian and international companies listed below to see what fits best for you.
*The following list is in no particular order.
CANADIAN TOUR OPERATORS
Halton Commemorative Tours – Canada Remembers: From Vimy Ridge to Juno Beach
Liberation Tours – Liberation of Holland 80th Anniversary Special Edition Tour
Liberation Tours – Northwest Europe Canadian Battlefield Tour
Globus – WWII D-Day Landing Beaches & Battle of Normandy
Canadian Battlefield Tours – Battle of Normandy
Ellison Travel and Tours – WWI & WWII: England, France, and Belgium
Ellison Travel and Tours – WWI & WWII: France, Belgium and the Netherlands
Ellison Travel and Tours – 10 Day Customized Remembrance Tour
Butterfield and Robinson Tours – NORMANDY & BRITTANY BIKING
EF-Educational Tours – Canada’s Battlefields
Connection Tours – The Battlefield Tours
Brightspark – PARIS & NORMANDY: Student Battlefield Trip
Tours Chanteclerc – BRETAGNE – NORMANDIE – ALSACE
Planet France – The Landing Beaches
Travac Tours – Battlefields of Europe That Helped Define Canada
SELF GUIDED TOURS
Canada Remembers Guide – WW2 D-Day in One Day, Paris to Juno
Canada Remembers Guide – WW2 D-Day in Two Days, Paris to Dieppe
Canada Remembers Guide – WW2 D-Day in Two Days, Paris to Bayeux
GUIDED VISITS OF D-DAY AND THE BATTLE OF NORMANDY SITES
*Below are some Normandy-area companies that operate small groups or private day tours of the D-Day beaches and Battle of Normandy sites, most based in Bayeux or Caen and some special tours for Canadians.
*The following list is in no particular order.
Normandy Sightseeing Tours
This Normandy-based company offers tailor-made private tours of the D-Day Battlefields for small groups of from one to eight people. This company can accommodate whether you are following the route of a family member or are just curious to learn more about one of man’s greatest-ever military feats.
Blue Fox
This company offers guided visits to the Canadian sector in Normandy (departure from Paris).
Albion
Based in Bayeux, this company offers custom tours leaving from the point of departure of your choice.
Gold Beach Tours
This company offers multiple versions of the D-Day tours, including a specific Canadian-centric tour that takes you to the major points of interest regarding the Canadian D-Day experience. Tours to the other sectors of the landings are also offered.
ACSM TOURS
This company uses a lecture style to deliver its educational content, taking you on a journey of remembrance and discovery of First World War and Second World War Canadian Battlefields in Normandy (Juno Beach and Dieppe), the Somme (Vimy Ridge), Dunkirk and Flanders Fields (Ypres and Passchendaele). Departures are also available from Calais, Ypres, and Paris.
Link Paris – Canadian Normandy D-Day Tour
This company provides a Canadian D-Day tour itinerary departing from Paris in the morning and returning via rail the same evening. This tour includes a guided tour of the Caen Memorial, lunch, and sites on the Canadian D-Day sector of the landing beach.
Normandy Battle Tours
This Normandy-based company now offers a tour of the Canadian sites in Normandy. Daily tours start from Bayeux near the tourist office, and upon request, other pick-up locations are available. Reservation well ahead of time is advised.
D-Day Academy
This Normandy-based operator offers tours of the D-Day landing beaches in Second World War vehicles. The tour is conducted by a French local, a knowledgeable collector who speaks fluent English (tours can be tailored for Canadians). Reservation well ahead of time is advised.
Holts Tours
This British-based company with over 30 years of experience offers history and battlefield tours for adult and school groups. The tours are carefully designed and cover World War I, World War II, and Napoleonic History. Please visit their website for sample tour itineraries and additional information.
Normandy D Day Tours
Personalized or sector-specific tours are available for 1 to 8 people. Tours are available in English or French.
Pegasus Battlefield Tours
This company provides in-depth private 1 to 5-day tours on the Canadian Sector and other tours on the Allied beaches and beyond, including Dieppe and Vimy Ridge. All tours are conducted by a published author and experienced battlefield historian, Gary Weight.
Adrian Roads
This company offers several guided visits to the WWI and WWII Canadian battlefields.
Normandy Guides
This association lists the contacts of many Normandy guides that may offer private tours.
*Please note that not all of these operators depart from Paris. Moreover, several other tour companies are not yet listed on this page. Though we provide a good starting point, we recommend conducting thorough independent research beforehand to ensure maximum satisfaction.
NORMANDY TOURISM INFORMATION
The Canadian Route of Remembrance
From the trenches of the First World War to the Dieppe Raid in 1942 and the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944, the Remembrance Route and its memorial sites pay tribute to the 500,000 Canadian soldiers who fought to free France on two occasions during the 20th century.
Coeur de Nacre Tourisme
To learn more about the seaside town of Courseulles-sur-Mer and Juno Beach–Terres de Nacre offers tourism (events, accommodations, restaurants, etc.)
Normandy Tourism
Visit this site to find hotels, maps, a calendar of events, and other practical information about Normandy.
Bayeux-Bessin Tourist Office
Visit this website for tourist information (maps, restaurants, hotels, etc.) for Bayeux and the Bessin region.
Caen Tourist Office
Visit this website for tourist information about the Caen area.
Normandie Qualité Tourisme
The Juno Beach Centre earned the “Label Normandie Qualité Tourisme” award from the Normandy Chambers of Commerce and Industry. Visit their website to discover the hotels, restaurants, campgrounds, and tourist sites that have been awarded this prestigious prize for the quality of the reception, services, and tourist information and services offered to visitors.
*(available in French only)
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From August 8 to 15, St-Aubin-sur-Mer hosts the annual Acadian Week Festival, “La semaine acadienne.” Created in 2005 to pay tribute to the Acadian soldiers of the North Shore Regiment of New Brunswick who landed on the beach on June 6, 1944, this festival also celebrates the vitality of today’s Acadian communities.
Pierre & Vacances
This tourism residence is located a few minutes from the JBC.
Gîtes de France
Visit this website to find a vacation rental in the Normandy region.
Clévacances
Visit this website to find a vacation rental in the Normandy region.
SECOND WORLD WAR MUSEUMS IN NORMANDY AND ELSEWHERE
Find all WWII Normandy sites and museums on this page of Normandy Tourism.
19th August 1942 Memorial / Dieppe Jubilee Association
The Jubilee Association was created in 1989 to ensure remembrance of the ill-fated military action, Operation Jubilee. Since June 2002, the Jubilee Association has been responsible for the “19th August 1942 Memorial” dedicated to the Dieppe Raid and located near the beach in Dieppe.
GENERAL RESOURCES FOR RESEARCHERS: CANADA IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR
Canada in the Second World War
Visit the Juno Beach Centre’s online museum about the Canadian Second World War effort.
Veterans Affairs Canada
This government page features a great deal of information for everyone, such as history links, news stories, guides to the Canadian war memorials, a youth page, and teacher resources.
Canadian Virtual War Memorial
This website, built and maintained by Veterans Affairs Canada, contains information about more than 116,000 Canadians and Newfoundlanders who have lost their lives in major conflicts since 1884. In addition to being a tribute to the men and women who served and gave their lives for Canada, the website has a searchable database and a feature for members of the public to contribute to the memorial by submitting images, letters, and other memorabilia.
The Canadian Battlefields Foundation
This foundation was established in 1992 to educate and promote public awareness of Canada’s role in both World Wars. The Foundation has established and maintains a Memorial Garden on the grounds of Le Mémorial in Caen, France, to remember Canadian participation in the Battle of Normandy. Two battlefield viewing areas and memorial sites have also been established in Normandy: one at Point 67 south of Caen and one at St. Lambert-sur-Dives. Visit the CBF website to learn more about the foundation’s objectives and its annual European battlefield study tour for university students.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
The British Commonwealth War Graves Commission, established by Royal Charter in 1917, marks and maintains the graves of the 1.7 million members of UK and Commonwealth forces who were killed in the two World Wars and other conflicts. The CWGC also builds memorials to those with no known grave and maintains records and registers. Their online register can be searched for details of the 1.7 million members of UK and Commonwealth forces who were killed in the two World Wars and other conflicts, as well as for more information on the 67,000 Commonwealth civilians who died due to enemy action during the Second World War. Visitors can search the database for details on gravesites, date of death, age, address of a close relative, etc.
Library and Archives Canada
This is Canada’s most substantial and sophisticated site for researching Canadian military topics and servicemembers, with virtual exhibitions, online publications, manuscripts, government records, and much more.
Royal Canadian Legion
Canada’s largest veterans’, ex-service persons’, and community service organization with more than 500,000 members and more than 1,600 branches in Canada, the USA (21), and Germany (3).
Digital Museums Canada
An excellent resource for trivia and games pertaining to Canada’s role in the Second World War, 3D Corvette Virtual Tour, and more.
Canadian Department of National Defence
Provides a comprehensive study of Canada’s involvement in major wars and peacekeeping initiatives.
The Canadian Letters & Images Project
The Canadian Letters and Images Project is an online archive of the Canadian war experience, from any war, as told through the letters and images of Canadians. The Canadian Letters and Images Project aims to let Canadians tell their own stories in their own words and pictures by creating a permanent online archive that preserves Canada’s wartime correspondence, photographs, and other personal materials from the battlefront and home front.
Wartime Canada: A window into the Canadian experience during the World Wars
The site makes the visual heritage of ‘Canada at war’ freely available in digital form. The emphasis is on the material that is usually regarded as disposable – the very material that was omnipresent in the lives of Canadians during the First World War and the Second World War.
Canadian Military Journal
Canadian Military Journal is the official professional journal of the Canadian Forces and the Department of National Defence.
The Canadian Wartime Experience: The Documentary Legacy of Canada at War
This site is maintained by the University of Manitoba. It provides free access to a collection of several thousand digitized primary sources and materials, such as documents, newspaper articles, letters, photographs and prints relating to the experience of Canada and Canadians during various wars from 1899 to the 1970s. They include the Boer War (1899-1903), First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945), Korean War (1950-1953) and Vietnam War (1957-1975). They cover information relating to military movements, battles and training, as well as oral history accounts from soldiers and servicemen/women. The site also includes a section for educators with suggested classroom activities. Rights information is available from the website.
Heroes Remember
Heroes Remember is a unique website that offers Canadians and others of all ages the chance to learn about history through the eyes of those who lived it. On the site, you’ll find video and audio conversations recorded with hundreds of Canadian Veterans over the past 30 years.
The Memory Project
This is a campaign to support the efforts of Canadian veterans to share their experiences. The Veterans Archives contain stories about Canadians whose lives were touched by war. The Memory Project is a print and internet initiative of the Dominion Institute.
The Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies
Fosters research, education, and discussion of historical and contemporary conflict. It promotes an open forum to discuss historical and contemporary conflicts.
Allied Merchant Navy of the Second World War
This website contains articles about the role of the Merchant Navy, including CPR ships in the Second World War; stories and anecdotes from merchant sailors; notices and news for veterans; message boards and related links.
Comité Juno Canada Normandie
This French association has solemnly committed to perpetuating the memory of gratitude to the current Canadian survivors of the Battle of Normandy, their families, their descendants, and young people.
CANADIAN SECOND WORLD WAR MUSEUMS IN CANADA
Canadian War Museum
The Canadian War Museum in Ottawa is “dedicated to education and remembrance.” The Gallery Tour takes you through the Colonial Period, the Victorian Era, the First and Second World Wars, right up to modern-day Canadian peacekeeping missions. The information is presented in easy-to-read, bite-sized chunks, allowing visitors to quickly move through the site. The essence of this museum is also available online.
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