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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Fort Esprance
An archaeological site believed to contain the remains of two late 18th- and early 19th-century fur trade forts; the earliest and most permanent of the North West CompanyÕs posts related to the Assiniboine River fur trade
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Fort Battleford
An early North West Mounted Police post, representative of the role of the police force in the 1876 to 1885 period and specifically of the role played by the force during the North-West Rebellion
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Fort la Corne
Site near where Louis de la Corne built Fort St. Louis in 1753, the furthest western point of New France; subsequently the site of several fur trade posts, including a post established in 1846 by the Hudson's Bay Company and named after Corne
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Former Prince Albert City Hall
Former city hall with bell tower, now serving as an arts centre; one the few remaining 19th-century town halls on the Canadian Prairies, and a reflection of the town's status and optimism at the time of the hall's construction
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Forestry Farm Park and Zoo
Opened as a tree nursery station and model farm under the federal Department of the Interior in order to develop new and scientific farming methods; now a municipal zoo
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Esterhazy Flour Mill
A rare and complete flour milling complex, of the type that was crucial to the grain industry in Saskatchewan and which contributed to the development of farming communities such as Esterhazy
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Doukhobors at Veregin
The administrative, distribution and spiritual centre for the Doukhoborsettlements in the region, the focus of which is a large prayer house
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Doukhobor Dugout House
One of many such dugout houses constructed by Doukhobors upon arrival in Canada, and a shelter type used by many settlers of various ethnicities upon their arrival on the prairies; the only known partially surviving example of this type of shelter
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Cypress Hills Massacre
The site where American traders attacked a Nakoda camp and killed a number of inhabitants; one of the first major tests of Canada's law enforcement policies in Western Canada
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Cumberland House
The HudsonÕs Bay Company's first inland fur-trading post, around which SaskatchewanÕs oldest permanent settlement was founded by Samuel Hearne; only visible remnant today is a stone-walled 1890s gunpowder house
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College Building
The centrepiece of the best grouping of Collegiate Gothic university buildings in Canada, surrounding a grassy oval known as "The Bowl"; the earliest and most important building on the University of Saskatchewan campus
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Claybank Brick Plant
A former industrial complex used for the manufacture of clay bricks from 1914 to 1989; key structures and brick-making equipment of the 1912-1937 period remain remarkably intact
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Carlton House
The site of forts built in 1810, 1845 and 1855 (with foundations and archaeological remains existing from the 1855 fort); served as a strategically placed HudsonÕs Bay Company fort and a North West Mounted Police post, and the location where Treaty 6 was signed
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Biggar Railway Station (Grand Trunk Pacific)
A one-and-a-half-storey, timber-frame train station that commemorates the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway's role in the development of Western Canada and the distinctive contribution its stations made to CanadaÕs architectural
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Battle of Tourond's Coulee / Fish Creek
The 36-hectare (89-acre) site of a battle between MiddletonÕs North West Field Force and Gabriel DumontÕs Mtis and First Nations forces; a psychological victory for the Mtis during the North-West Rebellion
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Battle of Duck Lake
A 12-hectare (30-acre) grassy lot that served as the site of the first battle of the North-West Rebellion, considered an important victory for the Mtis
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Battle of Cut Knife Hill
Site where an attack during the North-West Rebellion by 300 government troops was repulsed by members of the Poundmaker Cree Nation, led by Pitikwahanapiwiyin
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Batoche
A Mtis community and the site of 1885 Battle of Batoche; commemorates both the North-West Rebellion and Mtis river lot land use patterns
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Addison Sod House
A well-preserved and rare surviving example of a sod building, which was an important prairie form of construction and used extensively in the tall-grass regions
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Wanuskewin Heritage Park
Wanuskewin Heritage Park is a non-profit cultural and historical centre of the First Nations. In the Cree language, wnaskwin means "being at peace with oneself". The site is a National Historic Site of Canada due to the importance of its archaeological resources representing nearly 6000 years of the history of the Northern Plains peoples
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