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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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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Old Government House / Saint-Charles Scholasticate
The site of the first Government House of the (then) Northwest Territories; the house was destroyed by fire in 2003
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Next of Kin Memorial Avenue
A 0.7-kilometre (0.43 mi)-long lane beginning at a pair of stone pedestals, flanked on either side by a single row of mature elm trees and commemorative bronze plaques, and ending in a paved circle surrounding a stone memorial cairn; an excellent example of the "Roads of Remembrance" phenomenon which developed to honour the dead of the First World War
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Motherwell Homestead
A 3.59-hectare (8.9-acre) farmstead with a two-storey, stone farmhouse; noted for its associations with William Richard Motherwell and illustrative of a prairie homestead from the Western Canada settlement period
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Moose Jaw Court House
A brick court house with Beaux-Arts design, Neoclassical detailing and Bedford stone trim; symbolic of the new provincial justice system of Saskatchewan of 1908, and the only court house in the province designed by Pearson and Darling
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Last Mountain Lake Bird Sanctuary
On the recommendation of Edgar Dewdney, Lieutenant-Governor of the North-West Territories, this sanctuary located at the northern end of Last Mountain Lake was set aside in 1887 for the protection of wildfowl, the first such reserve on the continent
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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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Gray Burial Site
One of oldest burial sites on the Prairies
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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 Walsh
A fort which served as headquarters of the North West Mounted Police from 1878 to 1882
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Fort Qu'Appelle
Originally a major Hudson's Bay Company provision post for the southern Prairies surrounded by a log palisade; now located at the townÕs northern edge, with one remaining one original building that serves as a museum
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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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Fort Pelly
An archaeological site on the site of the HudsonÕs Bay Company fur trade post located at the elbow of the Assiniboine River near the Swan River; the headquarters of the company's Swan River District for almost 50 years
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Fort Livingstone
An archaeological site at the location of the former capital of the Northwest Territories (1876-1877) and which once housed the first North West Mounted Police barracks in Western Canada
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