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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Tombstone Territorial Park
Tombstone Territorial Park is a territorial park in Yukon, Canada. It is located in central Yukon, near the southern end of the Dempster Highway, in an area of rolling tundra. The park is named for Tombstone Mountain's resemblance to a grave marker.
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Tatshenshini River and Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Park
Tatshenshini-Alsek Park area has been called "North America's wildest river. It is a land where wild, vast rivers cut their way through ice clad peaks, creating lush valleys that are home to extensive wildlife populations. Here glaciers descend to waters' edge, shearing off thunderously into icebergs. Surrounded by national parks, the Tatshenshini-Alsek headwaters run through the subarctic tundra of the Yukon's Kluane National Park, the middle reaches flow past the towering peaks of the St. Elias range, and the lower river traverses Alaska's Glacier Bay National Park to finally arrive at the Pacific Ocean. For its extraordinary scenic and wildlife…
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Kluane National Park and Reserve
Kluane National Park and Reserve are two units of Canada's national park system, located in the extreme southwestern corner of Yukon, Canada. Kluane National Park Reserve was established in 1972, covering 22,013 square kilometres (8,499 sq mi).
The park includes the highest mountain in Canada, Mount Logan (5,959 m | 19,551 ft) of the Saint Elias Mountains. Mountains and glaciers dominate the park's landscape, covering 82% of its area. It contains close to 105 species of birds, including the rock ptarmigan and the golden and bald eagle. The bi-national Kluane-Wrangell-St. Elias-Glacier Bay-Tatshenshini-Alsek park system comprising Kluane, Wrangell-St Elias, Glacier Bay…4 votes -
Northern Lights Centre
Science and folklore of the Aurora Borealis
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Fort Selkirk Historic Site
Fort Selkirk is very cool Yukon historic site with many layers of story. Homeland of the Selkirk First Nation, it is a place for spiritual and cultural renewal. Centuries before The Hudson's Bay Company established a trading post there in 1848, the Chilkat Tlingits had controlled trade from the coast with the Selkirk people. Not surprisingly, they ransacked the fort in 1852 and maintained trade control for 40 more years when it became a settlement with government, church school, trading post etc. During the Klondike Gold Rush it was a major sternwheeller transportation and communications hub. Now after 20 years…
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Ivvavik National Park
Ivvavik National Park is a national park located in Yukon, Canada. Meaning "nursery" or "birthplace" in Inuvialuktun, is the first national park to be established as a result of a land claim agreement with its natives. Protecting a portion of the calving grounds of the Porcupine caribou herd, the park allows only a minimal number of people to visit per year. On the shore of the Beaufort Sea, there is abundant game for the wolves and bears who co-habit the area. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge lies just across the border in Alaska.
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Mount Logan
Mount Logan is the highest mountain in Canada and the second-highest peak in North America, after Mount McKinley (Denali). The mountain was named after Sir William Edmond Logan, a Canadian geologist and founder of the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC). Mount Logan is located within Kluane National Park and Reserve[3] in southwestern Yukon and is the source of the Hubbard and Logan Glaciers. Logan is believed to have the largest base circumference of any non-volcanic mountain on Earth (a large number of shield volcanoes are much larger in size and mass), with the massif containing eleven peaks over 5,000 metres…
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The Yukon River
Who doesn't want to canoe the Yukon river? Sternweelers, highway to the Klondike Gold Rush, salmon, wildlife viewing and lifeblood of 70 Yukon and Alaska aboriginal peoples.
Starting in southern Yukon/northern BC and flowing 3190km to the Bering Sea through Alaska, it's drainage of over 832,700 km² is more than 25% larger than Alberta...
"The Thirty Mile" section, from Lake Laberge to the Teslin River, is a Canadian Heritage River and part of Klondike Gold Rush International Historical Park.2 votes -
Herschel Island - Qikiqtaruk Territorial Park
Yukon's first territorial park in 1987 under the Inuvialuit Final Agreement, this tundra island in the Beaufort Sea has been a haven for millenia - Inuvialuit, whalers, fur traders, The Anglican Church, Royal Canadian Corps of Signals, and the RCMP were all present in the past 100+ years, not to mention a myriad of Arctic marine and tundra wildlife. Today, Inuvialuit families continue to use the area while researchers from around the world study the unique and rapidly changing Arctic environment.
The World Monuments Fund endangered places 2008.
On Canada's list for next World UNESCO Site.
Yukon Historic Site and…2 votes -
Dawson City Museum
Local history, including geology, pre-history, First Nations, early exploration, the gold rush, gold mining, and the birth and development of Dawson City
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Moosehide
Moosehide is a Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in settlement and cultural/historic site downriver from Dawson City, Yukon. Under the guidance of visionary Chief Issac and the Anglican Church, Hän people moved there in 1897 when 1000s of Klondike Gold Rush miners moved into and took over their traditional fish camp at Tr'ochëk (which ballooned to Dawson City). An inspiring bi-yearly event is the Moosehide Gathering, where Hän from Alaska and Yukon gather to re-learn and share songs, stories, food and traditions. Everyone is welcome.
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Fish Lake
An important site for traditional camps in the seasonal rounds of the Kwanlin Dün, Fish Lake is a beautiful hike just a short drive from Whitehorse. As the trail head starts at a higher altitude, it takes relatively little time to clear the tree line and walk along the ridge where you are met with panoramic views, including those of the Bonneville Lakes.
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MacBride Museum
Your Yukon adventure starts here! From Gold Rush fever to the birth of Whitehorse, the MacBride Museum gives the best and most entertaining overview of the colorful characters and groundbreaking events that built Canada's Yukon. Fun for the whole family, gold panning and historical skits daily during the summer months. Open all year.
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S. S. Klondike
This was the largest of the British Yukon Navigation Company's fleet that sailed the Yukon River in the first half of the 20th century. Beautifully restored to its 1937-40 appearance, the S.S. Klondike is a snapshot of the era of the riverboat in the Yukon.
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Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre
The vision of the Cultural Centre is to revive, preserve, and demonstrate our language, practices, values and traditional way of life for the benefit of Kwanlin Dn people.
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Ni'iinlii Njik (Fishing Branch) Territorial Park
The 6500 km2 Ni'iinlii Njik (Fishing Branch) Territorial Park and adjacent Habitat Protection Area are legacies of the Vuntut Gwitchin Land Claim agreement and a model of how governments can work together to protect a distinct and fascinating ecosystem and an enduring First Nation connection to the land.
Limestone caves, year-round open water, and early winter salmon runs support Grizzly Bear concentrations and huge trees rarely seen this far north.
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Coal River Springs Territorial Park
With its extensive limestone terraces created by cool water springs and the rich diversity of life forms associated with year-round flowing water, Coal River Springs is a unique feature of territorial and national significance.
In 1990, a 16 square kilometre area in the southeast Yukon encompassing Coal River Springs was officially dedicated as the Yukon's second Territorial Park and first Ecological Reserve.Coal River Springs Territorial Park was created through the combined efforts of the Yukon Government, the Liard First Nation and the Nature Conservancy of Canada.
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Copperbelt Railway & Mining Museum
The Copperbelt Railway & Mining Museum (CR&MM) is run by the Miles Canyon Historic Railway Society (MCHRS), which consists of a board of six members. The objectives of the society are to: a) To preserve, promote and to protect the railway heritage of the Yukon; b) To develop and operate the Waterfront Trolley; c) To develop and operate the Copperbelt Railway & Mining Museum; and d) To promote and enhance tourism development in the city of Whitehorse and the Yukon. The 8 hectare parcel of land that the CR&MM is located at was provided by the Yukon Electrical Company in…
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Vuntut National Park
Vuntut National Park is a national park located in northern Yukon, Canada. It was established in 1995. Due to land claims negotiations, this national park is still very undeveloped. It currently has no roads or developed trails. Vuntut National Park is adjacent to another Canadian National Park, Ivvavik National Park. Also, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge lies just across the border in Alaska, USA.
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Yukon Transportation Museum
Impact of different transportation methods on the Yukon's history, development, industry, and culture
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