Explore150: Go Canada!
What place in Canada most defines you as a Canadian? Vote while you’re here, then follow us @Explore150 to join the discussion and show us on Instagram #Explore150!
Through this participatory process, you will identify and vote for your favourite natural, historic, and cultural sites across each province and territory, ultimately choosing the Canadian places and milestones we highlight in our Explore150 mobile app – to be launched November 1st! Stay tuned for updates on the project.
Do you have questions, comments or want to get involved? Get in touch through Explore150@takingitglobal.org
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Little Italy (Neighbourhood) - Toronto
An amazing neighbourhood in Toronto that carries with it amazing history and great places to visit and experience any time of the year.
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Kingston Penitentiary
Canada’s oldest reformatory prison, with a layout that served as a model for other federal prisons for more than a century; its massive stone wall and north gate are an imposing local landmark
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Crash 'n' Burn
The site of the Crash 'n' Burn was arguably Canada's first punk club, located at 15 Duncan St., Toronto, Ontario, at the corner of Duncan and Pearl. It existed for only a month and a half and was closed by the end of the Summer of 1977. In it's time this was a venue with an important role in supporting the eruption of punk music in Toronto, featuring such essential first-wave Canadian punk bands as The Viletones, Dead Boys, the Diodes, and Teenage Head. The site was occupied at the time by an artists collective comprised of students from neighbouring…
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Fort William Historical Park
So much history and the people are always nice, so much fun there.
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neys provincial park
neys provincial park is beautiful, nice long sand beach and gorgeous water. neys also has lots of history since it is actually made on neys prisober of war camp 100.
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Kingston City Hall
A prominent example of the Neoclassical style in Canada, with a landmark tholobate and dome; its scale and design are reflective of Kingtson's status at the time of construction as capital of the Province of Canada
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Kingston Fortifications
A fortification system consisting of five installations (Fort Henry NHSC, Fort Frederick, Murney Tower NHSC, Shoal Tower NHSC and Cathcart Tower), crucial to the 19th century defense of Kingston and the terminus of the Rideau Canal
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Garrison Creek
The Garrison Creek is Toronto's most famous "Lost River". When the city was founded, you could fish salmon and canoe from Lake Ontario to what is now Bathurst Subway Station. It was buried in 1880 and now runs beneath the city in a Victorian brick sewer. Recent efforts, including the David Suzuki Foundation's Homegrown National Park Project, are bringing attention to this important cultural and ecological corridor.
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Kingston Customs House
A limestone former customs house; an excellent example of the architectural quality of mid-19th-century public buildings designed in the British classical tradition
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Frontenac County Court House
Representative of the large-scale court houses erected in Ontario after 1850, when the Municipal Act was amended to give increased power to counties to construct court houses on a monumental scale to accommodate various county functions
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Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres
The Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres are a pair of stacked theatres in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Winter Garden Theatre is seven stories above the Elgin Theatre. They are the last surviving Edwardian stacked theatres in the world.
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Fort Henry
British fort that served as the principal fortification among a series of military works designed to defend Kingston, its harbour and dockyard and the entrance to the Rideau Canal
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Fort Frontenac
Originally a French trading post that served as a gateway to the West, the base of Robert de LaSalle’s explorations and a French outpost against the Iroquois and English forces
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Hog's Back Park
Hog's Back Park is a glorious place to spend one's time, for a picnic, to see the falls, and to go for a walk or bike ride!
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Don Valley Brick Works
The Don Valley Brick Works, also known as Evergreen Brick Works, is a former quarry and industrial site located in the Don River valley in Toronto, Canada. The Don Valley Brick Works operated for nearly 100 years and provided bricks used to construct many well-known Toronto landmarks, such as Casa Loma, Osgoode Hall, Massey Hall, and the Ontario Legislature. Since the closure of the original factory, the quarry has been converted into a city park which includes a series of naturalized ponds, while the buildings have been restored and opened as an environmentally-focused community and cultural centre by Evergreen, a…
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Kawartha Trans Canada Trail
This 44 km long trail travels through three landscapes located in Southern Ontario- farmland, urban town/villages and hilly/rivers/lakes- very beautiful and accessible.
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Bellevue House
A noted example of Italianate architecture in the Picturesque manner in Canada, and the former residence of John A. Macdonald, a Father of Confederation and the first Prime Minister of Canada
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Ann Baillie Building
One of the first purpose-built nurses' residences in Canada, the building represents the professionalization of nursing in Canada in the early 20th-century, and now serves as the Museum of Health Care
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Fort York Heritage Conservation District
Fort York is a historic site of military fortifications and related buildings on the west side of downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The fort was built by the British Army and Canadian militia troops in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, to defend the settlement and the new capital of the Upper Canada region from the threat of a military attack, principally from the newly independent United States.
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Eaton's 7th Floor Auditorium and Round Room
The Carlu is an historic event space in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Known for many years as the "Eaton's Seventh Floor", the Carlu is one of Toronto's best examples of Art Moderne architecture.Itself an Art Moderne masterpiece, the Eaton's Seventh Floor was at the heart of Toronto's cultural life for many years. Today, the space acts as a special events venue.
2 votes
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