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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Kingston Navy Yard
The site of a Royal Navy Dockyard from 1788 to 1853
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7 votes
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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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The Royal Ontario Museum
An amazing museum that showcases amazing exhibits throughout the year. It's also a major source of memories for a lot of young people who have grown up in Toronto.
28 votes -
Hamilton's Waterfalls
Hamilton, Ontario surprises as the unlikely Waterfall Capital of the World boasting over 100 waterfalls identified by Hamilton Conservation Authority, found along the Bruce Trail and the Niagara Escarpment. Hamilton offer interactive waterfall hikes and hosts a rotating illumination of various waterfalls weekly. Popular place for hiking, tourists, and weddings!
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Kingston General Hospital
A complex of limestone buildings, built between 1833 and 1924, set in a campus of more recent hospital buildings; the oldest public hospital in Canada still in operation, with facilities illustrative of health care in Canada in the 19th and 20th centuries
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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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Kingston Dry Dock
An important construction and repair facility for ships on the Great Lakes; noted for the Second World War naval vessels, notably corvettes, built in this dry dock
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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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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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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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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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Elizabeth Cottage
A representative example of a 19th-century Gothic Revival villa
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Cataraqui Cemetery
One of the best examples of a medium-sized rural or garden cemetery in Canada, containing a range of remarkable monuments, a Gothic Revival lodge, and the graves of many notable Canadians, including the gravesite of Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada’s first Prime Minister (itself a NHSC)
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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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Niagara Falls
Most amazing natural site in Ontario located close to millions of people
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26 votes
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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
1 vote
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