Beginning in the Maritime provinces with "Ballad to the East", the suite travels west through the Laurentian Mountains of southern Quebec in "Laurentide Waltz", then pays a visit to the neighbourhood in Montreal where Peterson grew up, Place St. Henri, in the song of the same name.

Finally, Peterson takes us through Calgary in "March Past", and on into the Rocky Mountains with "Land of the Misty Giants".

Explaining his motivation for writing Canadiana Suite, Peterson said "My profession has taken me to every part of the world, none of them more beautiful than where I live.

As a musician, I respond to the harmony and rhythm of life, and when I’m deeply moved it leaves something singing inside me.

With a country as large and as full of contrast as Canada, I had a lot of themes to choose from when I wrote the Canadiana Suite.