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.
Do you have questions, comments or want to get involved? Get in touch through Explore150@takingitglobal.org
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Fairholm
A brick villa carriage house built for Thomas Heath Haviland, Sr.; an excellent and rare surviving example of a Picturesque villa in Atlantic Canada
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Great George Street Historic District
A wide six-block street that begins at the waterfront and ends at Province House; the view up Great George Street from Peake's Quay contains many elements that the Fathers of Confederation would have experienced on their way to the Charlottetown Conference in 1864
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St. Dunstan's Roman Catholic Basilica
St. Dunstan's is the centre of the Roman Catholic Church in Prince Edward Island and the mother church of the diocese; it was elevated to the status of Basilica in 1929; a noted example of the High Victorian Gothic Revival style in Canada
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Myra Canyon Trestles, Kelowna, BC
The Myra Canyon Trestles are a part of the Kettle Valley Railway, which began construction in 1910. They were completed in 1914. Originally comprised of twenty trestles (one was bypassed and another was filled in), this site was the highest of the entire Kettle Valley Railway. (1249.68 m above sea level). In January of 2003, after almost a decade of restoration work, the trestles were named a place of "natural historic significance" (National Historic Sites and Monuments Board). The trestles were now a beautiful walking and biking trail. But it was not to last. In mid-August of 2003, the Okanagan…
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Dundas Terrace
A wooden three-and-a-half-storey apartment building; a noted example of the Queen Anne Revival style in Canadian apartment building architecture
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Lake Superior Provincial Park
This large, rugged park sits on North America's largest Great Lake - near the home of the original inhabitants of the area, the Ojibwa, and now a major part of the Trans-Canada Highway (there called Highway 17). It is also an important area for shipping along the great lakes, which is an important part of international trade routes. It is also stunningly beautiful and largely untouched - like much of Canada's wilderness.
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Fort George
Fort George is located in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. They have recreated the site to show what life would have been like during the 1800's, and have a number of buildings inside the fort walls that visitors can check out. Visitors can see how the soldiers and their families lived, what officer barracks looked like, and can climb up the watchtower. There are also demonstrations, including a musket show!
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L.M. Montgomery's Cavendish
A cultural landscape near Cavendish that author Lucy Maud Montgomery made famous in her Anne of Green Gables books
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Toronto Islands
A small chain of islands just offshore from the city of Toronto, the islands are a popular recreational destination, and home to a small residential community.
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Mount Royal Park
One of Montreal's largest green spaces
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Clayoquot Sound
Clayoquot Sound is a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve on the west coast of Vancouver Island, and the site of milestone protests by environmental activitists in 1993, to oppose clearcut logging in the area.
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Pier 21
Pier 21 is the Halifax port where one million immigrants landed between 1928-1971.
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Gwaii Haanas
Together, the Government of Canada and the Council of the Haida Nation manage the special place called Gwaii Haanas. The name means “Islands of Beauty” in the Haida langauge and the area embodies the rugged beauty and rich ecology of this remote Pacific Coastal region.
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Jean-Pierre Roma at Three Rivers
Jean Pierre Roma established a fishing and trading post on this site in 1732, which was destroyed by New Englanders in 1745 after the Siege of Louisbourg; symbolic of the French presence on Ile Saint-Jean (later named Prince Edward Island)
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Shaw's Hotel
A two-and-a-half-storey main lodge, with two large barns and twenty-five cottages sitting on a 8-hectare (20-acre) site; operating as a tourist resort for more than 150 years, the site is evocative of the early years of tourism in Canada
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Strathgartney Homestead
A 13-hectare (32-acre) remnant of the 200-hectare (490-acre) estate of Robert Bruce Stewart, a nineteenth-century landowner; illustrative of the land tenure system that dominated Prince Edward Island until the passage of the Land Purchase Act of 1875
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Alberton Court House
A simple wooden hall evocative of a pioneer church, now used as the local museum; representative of the six circuit courthouses, all built according to a standard plan after the passage of Prince Edward Island's County Courts Act in 1873
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Art Gallery of Ontario
The Art Gallery of Ontario was founded in 1900 and has provided excited exhibitions, programs and a place for Torontians, Canadian and tourists to understand why they boldly declare that Art Matters!
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Museam of civilizations, Gatineau
As per its historical purpose and its First-Nations architecture, the Canadian Museum of Civilizations is one of the most interesting museums in Canada.
3 votes
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