Steve:

It would be to your advantage to get one of the new BC 'enhanced' drivers licences. When I picked mine up last year, I was pleasantly surprised to see that they are laid out in exactly the same machine-readable format as the 'nationality cards' that are commonly given to citizens in Europe as passport substitutes.

It is a bit of a PITA to get one of these BC enhanced licences, and it costs about $100+, but if you present it to police or border guards in Europe, they will recognize it as being a nationality document (as well as a DL).

Beyond that - there is not a whole bunch to worry about, at least, not for Western and Central European travel. Once you get into genuine third world countries (Africa, anything ending in -stan, any place with a name you can't spell or pronounce), well, all bets are off, but I do agree with HenryUK's philosophy below - you just go with the flow, because you ain't gonna change the way things do or don't get done in those places.

If you have not travelled internationally before, I suggest you start off with Western and Central Europe - it's very different, but at the same time, everyone plays more or less according to the same rules we do here in Canada.

Michael

PS: Don't forget to add to your planning list a way of keeping your BC licence plate valid. I don't know how long the validity stickers last for (1 year? 2 years?) but you want to keep the registration valid when you are in other countries.