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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Narcisse Snake Dens and Wildlife Management Area
Thinking of a trip to see the world famous red-sided garter snakes of Narcisse? It's about a one hour drive north from Winnipeg to the Narcisse Snake Dens. Sunny days are always best for snake viewing. There's a large gravel parking lot and the trails throughout the site are well-packed crushed limestone.
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Oak Hammock Marsh Interpretive Centre
Oak Hammock Marsh is one of North America’s birding hotspots and a great destination for people of all ages.
Geese at Oak Hammock MarshThis 36km2 Wildlife Management Area features a restored prairie marsh, aspen-oak bluff, waterfowl lure crops, artesian springs, some of Manitoba's last remaining patches of tall-grass prairie and 30 kilometers of trails for you to explore.
Oak Hammock Marsh is home to 25 species of mammals, 300 species of birds, numerous amphibians, reptiles, and fish, and countless invertebrates. During migration season, the number of waterfowl using the marsh during migration can exceed 400,000 daily!
Award-winning Oak Hammock Marsh…2 votes -
Assiniboine Park Zoo
Assiniboine Park Zoo is a zoo that was established in 1904 at the West end of Assiniboine Park in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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West Hawk Lake
Formed by a Meteor, West Hawk Lake is a excellent historic site for the province of Manitoba.
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Carberry Spirit Sands
The Carberry Spirit Sands is a small desert located just east of Brandon Manitoba and Is a natural formation in the middle of a forest.
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Mantario Trail
Take a look at the Hiking Trail that runs through the White shell between Manitoba and Ontario.
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Bannock Point Petroforms - Whiteshell Provincial Park
The Bannock Point Petroforms are figures **** out on bedrock in the forms of turtles, snakes and humans, and also in abstract patterns. Anishinabe and other First Nations people believe that they were left here long ago for the benefit of all people that might visit this site to receive their teachings and healing
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North American Game Warden Museum and International Peace Garden
Come visit Us! The North American Game Warden Museum is the only museum of its kind that houses taxidermy and artifacts related to the Game Warden Profession where everything has been confiscated from poachers or at a Canadian/US border. The stories are an eye opener into their world. It also houses the only memorial dedicated strictly to Game Wardens in both Canada and the United States. It is Canadian representation for Wardens across our country but also encompasses our neighbours to the south. The museum is located at the International Peace Garden whose focus is not only gardens but about…
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Winnipeg Art Gallery
The WAG was established in 1912 when a group of Winnipeg businessmen, recognizing "the civilizing effects of art," each contributed $200 and rented two rooms in the old Federal Building at the corner of Main and Water Streets. Thus, the WAG was born, becoming the first civic art gallery in Canada. Now approaching its centenary in 2012, the Winnipeg Art Gallery has developed from a small civic gallery to CanadaÕs sixth largest gallery with an international reputation.
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Centennial Concert Hall
The Centennial Concert Hall, as part of the Centennial Centre, was built as a Canadian Centennial project. A team of professionals worked together to create this $ 8 million, 253,014 square foot venue with a seating capacity of 2,305.
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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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Assiniboine Park
Assiniboine Park is a park in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It was established in 1904 and is located north of the Assiniboine Forest, along the Assiniboine River. It is named for the Assiniboine people. The park covers 1,100 acres (450Êha), of which 400 acres (160Êha) are designed in the English landscape style.
The park includes the 700-acre (280Êha) Assiniboine Forest, Assiniboine Park Zoo, Assiniboine Park Conservatory, the historic Assiniboine Park Pavilion,
formal and informal gardens, a sculpture garden, a miniature railway,
an outdoor theatre for performing arts, and numerous other attractions.4 votes -
Riding Mountain National Park
Riding Mountain National Park is a national park in Manitoba, Canada. The park sits atop the Manitoba Escarpment. Consisting of a protected area 2,969 km2 (1,146 sq mi),[1] the forested parkland stands in sharp contrast to the surrounding prairie farmland. It was designated a National Park because it protects three different ecosystems that converge in the area; grasslands, upland boreal and eastern deciduous forests. The park is home to wolves, moose, elk, black bears, hundreds of bird species, countless insects and a captive bison herd.
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