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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Little Manitou Lake
Five times saltier that the ocean! It's easy to float in this lake that's also believed to have healing powers.
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Dunlop Art Gallery
The Regina Public Library has been exhibiting art continuously since 1949, when art was presented in the periodicals reading room. In 1964, a multi-purpose art gallery was built as part of the Library's current location.
The Gallery was named the Dunlop Art Gallery in 1972, after Ms Marjorie Dunlop. Ms Dunlop was the former Chief Librarian of the Regina Public Library.
The Gallery has been professionally staffed since 1962.
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3 votes
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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
12 votes -
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
11 votes -
ële--la-Crosse
A pre-contact gathering place for Aboriginal peoples, where Louis Primeauestablished a trading post in 1775; the site served as an important provision depot for the North West Company and the Hudson's Bay Companyestablished its first post here in 1799
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Frenchman Butte
The site where the Wood Cree and the Alberta Field Force waged the Battle of Frenchman's Butte on May 28, 1885 as part of the North-West Rebellion
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Fort Pitt
An archaeological site containining the remains of two Hudson's Bay Companyforts; the second fort was burned during the North-West Rebellion by Big BearÕs followers after the North West Mounted Police had withdrawn to Battleford
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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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Doukhobors at Veregin
The administrative, distribution and spiritual centre for the Doukhoborsettlements in the region, the focus of which is a large prayer house
1 vote -
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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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
3 votes -
Grasslands National Park
Grasslands National Park represents the Prairie Grasslands natural region, protecting one of the nation's few remaining areas of undisturbed dry mixed-grass/shortgrass prairie grassland. The park is located in the World Wildlife Fund-defined Northern short grasslands ecoregion, which spans much of southern Saskatchewan, southern Alberta, and the northern Great Plains states in the USA. The unique landscape and harsh, semi-arid climate provide niches for several adapted plants and animals. The park and surrounding area house the country's only black-tailed prairie dog colonies.
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Steele Narrows
The site of the last engagement of the North-West Rebellion; a cavalry troop led by Sam Steele overtook a party of Cree led by Wandering Spiritand Big Bear
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Seager Wheeler's Maple Grove Farm
A 17-hectare (42-acre) farmstead established by farmer, agronomist and pioneering seed breeder Seager Wheeler; representative of a typical prairiefarm of the 1898-1940 era, and reflective of Seager's work during that era
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Saskatoon Railway Station (Canadian Pacific)
A two-storey, Chteau-style railway station; commemorates the Canadian Pacific Railway and the smaller stations built by the line during its prosperous years
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Gravelbourg Ecclesiastical Buildings
A Cathedral, BishopÕs residence and convent; symbolic of the efforts of the Roman Catholic Church in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to colonize Western Canada with French Canadians
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