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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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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Manitoba Legislative Building
The Manitoba Legislative Building is the meeting place of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba,[2] in central Winnipeg. It was originally named the Manitoba Parliament Building, not Legislative.[2] The neoclassical building was completed in 1920 and stands seventy-seven meters tall (253 ft).[2] It was designed and built by Frank Worthington Simon (1862Ð1933)[3] and Henry Boddington III, along with other masons and many skilled craftsmen. The building is famous for the Golden Boy, a gold covered bronze statue based on the style of the Roman god Mercury, or the Greek god Hermes, at the top of the cupola, or domed ceiling.
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The Forks National Historic Site of Canada
The Forks is a historic site, meeting place and green space in Downtown Winnipeg located at the confluence of the Red River and Assiniboine River. For at least 6000 years, the Forks has been the meeting place for early Aboriginal peoples, and since colonization has also been a meeting place for European fur traders, Mtis buffalo hunters, Scottish settlers, riverboat workers, railway pioneers and tens of thousands of immigrants.
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St. Boniface Cathedral
Saint Boniface Cathedral is a Roman Catholic basilica and the cathedral of Saint Boniface, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.It is an important building in Winnipeg, and is the principal church in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Boniface, serving the eastern part of Manitoba province as well as the local Franco-Manitoban community. The basilica sits in the centre of the city at 190 avenue de la Cathdrale, Saint Boniface.
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Union Station
Union Station is the inter-city railway station for Winnipeg, Manitoba. It is a grand beaux-arts structure situated near The Forks in downtown Winnipeg.
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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 -
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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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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West Hawk Lake
Formed by a Meteor, West Hawk Lake is a excellent historic site for the province of Manitoba.
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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 -
Riel House
The Riel House is a house-museum located in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Today owned and administered by Parks Canada, the Riel House is mostly known for being the home of the Riel family and for Louis Riel who has lived in this house briefly in the summer of 1883. It was where Riel was laid in state after his execution in 1885.
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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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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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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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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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Mantario Trail
Take a look at the Hiking Trail that runs through the White shell between Manitoba and Ontario.
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Manitoba Theatre Centre
Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre (MTC) is Canada's oldest English-language regional theatre. Next to the Stratford and Shaw Festivals, MTC has a higher annual attendance than any other theatre in the country. It was founded in 1958 by John Hirsch and Tom Hendry as an amalgamation of the Winnipeg Little Theatre and Theatre 77. In 2010, the theatre received a royal designation from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, and officially became the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre
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Upper Fort Garry
Fort Garry, also known as Upper Fort Garry, was a Hudson's Bay Company trading post at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers in what is now downtown Winnipeg. It was established in 1822 on or near the site of the North West Company's Fort Gibraltar.
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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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