Explore150: Go Canada!
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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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William Brydone Jack Observatory
The William Brydone Jack Observatory a small wooden observatory in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Designed by William Brydone Jack and first operational in 1851, it was the first astronomical observatory built in Canada. It comprises an octagonal tower with a conical roof and a one-story rectangular wing with a gable roof.
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Saint John City Market
The Saint John City Market is the oldest continuing farmer's market in Canada, with a charter dating from 1785. Located in Saint John, New Brunswick and completed in 1876, the current market building has a unique roof structure that resembles an inverted ship's keel. Made of wooden trusses, the structure was reportedly built by unemployed ship carpenters of the day. Also, the floor slopes with the natural grade of the land. The architecture is in the Second Empire style. Some of the businesses in the market have been operating continuously there for more than 100 years. Facing onto Kings Square,…
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Free Meeting House
The Free Meeting House was built in 1821, and is one of MonctonÕs oldest standing public buildings. It was constructed in the style of a New England Meeting House without steeple, bell or cornerstone. Its purpose was to serve as a home for all religious denominations until such time as individual groups could raise the money required to build their own churches.
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Imperial Theatre, Saint John
The Imperial Theatre, in Saint John, New Brunswick, was designed by Philadelphia architect Albert Westover and built in 1912 by the Imperial Theatre by the Keith-Albee-Orpheum Corporation vaudeville chain of New York City and their Canadian subsidiary, the Saint John Amusements Company Ltd. It opened to the public on September 19, 1913. One of Canada's first comedy troupes, The Dumbbells staged several of their first shows there. Many early stars of silent film had their films played in the Imperial, such as Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Fatty Arbuckle, Greta Garbo, and Harold Lloyd. The theatre was designed as a modern…
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Fort La Tour
An archaeological site containing the remains of a 17th-century fortified fur-trading post established by Charles de Saint-tienne de la Tour; one of the earliest centres of the French fur trade with the Aboriginal peoples in the region
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Old Government House
The stone Palladian-style official residence of the Lieutenant Governor; the location of a historic 1866 meeting between Governor Arthur Gordon and Premier Albert James Smith which paved the way for the colony's entry into Confederation
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Carleton Martello Tower
A martello tower located across the harbour from downtown Saint John, built to protect the city from an American land attack during the War of 1812; representative of the type of coastal defence used by the British during the Napoleonic era
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St. Andrews Blockhouse
The blockhouse was built as a coastal defense structure in the War of 1812 between the United States and the British Empire, but never saw action. Twelve similar structures were built, and only the St. Andrews blockhouse still stands. It was repaired in the 1990s following a fire. Guided tours are conducted during tourist season.
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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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Buffalo Pound Provincial Park
Buffalo Pound Provincial Park is a Saskatchewan Provincial Park located in southern Saskatchewan about 25Êkm northeast of the city of Moose Jaw.
The park centres around Buffalo Pound Lake, a prairie lake formed from glaciation about 10,000 years ago.
Seasonal recreation activities include swimming (two public beaches and a pool), camping, fishing, mini-golf, biking, hiking, and access to the Trans-Canada Trail. The park also features a captive herd of bison, along with the Nicolle Flats Marsh where a variety of wildlife can be observed. There is also a trout pond, known as Buffalo Pond, which is stocked with rainbow trout,…0 votes -
Athabasca Sand Dunes Provincial Park
The Athabasca Sand Dunes consist of a series of dune fields stretching for about 100 km along the south shore of Lake Athabasca in northwest Saskatchewan. This is the largest active sand surface in Canada and one of the most northern sets of major dune fields in the world. The outstanding scenery is combined with a unique ecosystem, rich in rare and endemic (found only here) plants which scientists consider an evolutionary puzzle.
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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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Peter MacKinnon Building
The Peter MacKinnon Building is a National Historic Site of Canada which is part of the University of Saskatchewan (U of S).The U of S is the largest education institution in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The structure is an example of a university building in the classic Elizabethan E shape in Collegiate Gothic style which was designed by Brown and Vallance
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Keyhole Castle
The Keyhole Castle is located in the East Hill neighborhood of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada. Built as the residence for Samuel McLeod, a former business man, mayor of Prince Albert and federal politician. the home was built as the residence for him and his family. The architect was Erich Wohann of Minneapolis. In 1975, the building was designated a National Historic Site of Canada. The building contains a ballroom on the top floor
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Holy Trinity Church
Holy Trinity Church is a Provincial Historic Site and a Provincial Heritage Property situated prominently on the banks of the Churchill River in the northern community of Stanley Mission. The property features a grand cathedral with a tall central nave and elaborate spire built in a Gothic Revival style that was constructed between 1854 and 1860.
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Humboldt Post Office
The historic Humboldt Post Office building is located at the corner of Main Street and 6th Avenue in Humboldt, Saskatchewan, Canada. The building is 2 1/2 storeys with a 4 storey bell and clock tower. Designed by the chief architect of the Department of Public Works, David Ewart, the building is the last surviving of a series of very similar buildings under a common theme on the prairies.[1] The building originally housed a post office, customs, and weights and measures office on the ground floor; customs and inland revenue offices and an office for the commanding officer of the Royal…
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Battleford Court House
Battleford Court House is the facility located in Battleford to provide a public forum used by the Saskatchewan legal system to adjudicate disputes and dispense civil, labour, administrative and criminal justice under its laws.
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Saskatchewan Legislative Building
The Saskatchewan Legislative Building was built between 1908 and 1912 in the Beaux Arts style to a design by Edward and William Sutherland Maxwell of Montreal. The Maxwells also supervised construction of the building by the Montreal company P. Lyall & Sons, who later built the Centre Block of the federal Parliament Building in Ottawa after the 1866 Parliament Building was destroyed by fire in 1916. Piles began to be drilled for the foundations during the autumn of 1908 and in 1909 the Governor General of Canada, the Earl Grey, laid the cornerstone. In 1912, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught,…
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St. John's Anglican Cathedral
The Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, located at 816 Spadina Crescent East, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada is the cathedral of the Anglican Diocese of Saskatoon.
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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
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