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.
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Riverside Park Manitoba
Riverside Park is a large recreation area on both sides of the Souris River near Highway 10 north of Minto. The triangular-shaped park includes a stone cairn, interpretive signage, playground and picnic sites set among mature trees along the south riverbank, open playing fields behind and an undeveloped green space on the opposite bank. The municipal designation applies to the approximately 23-hectare site.
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Turtle Mountain Provincial Park
Provincial park located in the southwestern portion of the Canadian province of Manitoba. Within it is the Adam Lake and Max Lake campgrounds. The Park is known for its bike trails, fishing, back country cabins and canoe routes. Turtle Mountain Provincial Park is one of the most the most popular parks in Manitoba being popular with many family and outdoor enthusiasts.
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Hecla/Grindstone Provincial Park
Hecla/Grindstone Provincial Park juts into the southern basin of Lake Winnipeg. There are trails to explore throughout the park. From lake waters and limestone cliffs to forests and fens, there is a wide range of habitats for wildlife. In the forest some of the secretive species to watch for are wolves, moose and Great Gray Owl .
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Pembina Valley Provincial Park
The valley is approximately two kilometres wide and 100 metres deep. The park is 180 hectares of meadows and aspen-oak forest. Its purpose is to preserve areas that are representative of the Pembina/Tiger Hills Natural Region of Manitoba, and accommodate nature-oriented recreational opportunities.
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York Factory
York Factory is commemorated for its critical role in the French-English struggle on Hudson Bay for control of the fur trade, as an important Hudson's Bay Company trading post and entrept (See definition below) for over two and one half centuries, and for its role in the expansion of the fur trade into the interior of western Canada. The following are essential to an understanding of the national significance of York Factory: the importance of the fur trade in Canadian history, the international dimensions of the trade, and the interaction of aboriginal peoples and their trading partners at York Factory,…
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Prince of Wales Fort
Prince of Wales Fort National Historic Site of Canada is a ruinous early 18th-century fur trade fortress built by the HudsonÕs Bay Company. Surviving stone walls stand starkly silhouetted on the tundra along the shore of HudsonÕs Bay at the mouth of the Churchill River in northern Manitoba. The designation refers to the remains of the fort on its point of land, Sloop Cove - historically the HudsonÕs Bay CompanyÕs winter harbour - and Cape Merry - a defensive battery situated on a point of land across the Churchill River opposite the fort.
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St. Andrew's Rectory
St. Andrew's Rectory is an excellent example of mid-19th century Red River architecture. Outdoor exhibits interpret Red River architecture, and the roles of the Church Missionary Society and the Church of England in the settlement of the Red River and Western Canada.
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Lower Fort Garry
Lower Fort Garry was built in 1830 by the Hudson's Bay Company on the western bank of the Red River, 20 mi (32 km) north of the original Fort Garry, which is now in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Treaty 1 was signed there. A devastating flood destroyed Fort Garry in 1826, prompting the company's then governor, George Simpson, to search for a safer location down river. Governor Simpson chose the site of Lower Fort Garry because of its high ground and location below the St. Andrew's Rapids, eliminating a time-consuming portage of heavy fur packs and York boats. However, the fort…
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Wapusk National Park of Canada
Wapusk National Park is Canada's 37th national park, established in 1996. The park is located in the Hudson Plains ecozone, 45 kilometres (28 mi) south of Churchill in north-east Manitoba, Canada, on the shores of Hudson Bay. Access to the park is limited due to its remote location and an effort to preserve the park. The name comes from the Cree word for polar bear (wpask).The Park is also home to Cape Churchill, which is renowned as the best location in the world to view and photograph wild polar bears. The only way people can access Cape Churchill is by…
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Winnipeg Beach Canadian Pacific Railway Water Tower
Of the many recreation and railway related structures erected by the CPR at Winnipeg Beach, only the steel water tower survives. It was designed and constructed in 1928 by the Vulcan Iron Works Ltd. of Winnipeg. Utilitarian in design and appearance, the 40-metre (130 ft) high tower supported a 90,000-litre (20,000 imp gal; 24,000 US gal) capacity tank and provided a source of pressurized water for the CPR steam locomotives and fire protection services for the resort's facilities. Non-operational since the resort closed, the structure is the best example of only five surviving riveted-steel water towers in Manitoba. As in…
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