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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St. Paul's Anglican Church
St. Paul's Anglican Church is an historic Carpenter Gothic style Anglican church building located on the corner of Front and Church streets in Dawson City, Yukon, Canada. Built of wood in 1902, it once served as the cathedral of the Anglican Diocese of Yukon until the diocesan see was moved to Whitehorse in 1953. Its steep pitched roof, its pointed arch entry through its belfry tower and its lancet windows are typical of Carpenter Gothic churches. St. Paul's is a National Historic Site of Canada as designated by the Government of Canada on June 1, 1989.
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Canadian Bank of Commerce
A two-storey, wood-frame bank with neoclassical stylings, now housing the local museum; the largest surviving example of the prefabricated banks erected in railway towns across the prairies, and representative of the expansion of the country's large banks into Western Canada
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S.S. Keno National Historic Site
The SS Keno is a preserved historic sternwheel paddle steamer and National Historic Site of Canada. The SS Keno is berthed in a dry dock on the waterfront of the Yukon River in Dawson City, Yukon, Canada.
The vessel was constructed in 1922, in Whitehorse, by the British Yukon Navigation Company, a subsidiary of the White Pass and Yukon Route railway company. For most of its career it transported silver, zinc and lead ore from mines in the Mayo district to the confluence of the Yukon and Stewart rivers at Stewart City. It was retired from commercial service in 1951…0 votes -
Fred Henne Territorial Park
Fred Henne Territorial Park is a territorial park in the Northwest Territories of Canada, located on Long Lake near Yellowknife, one of 34 parks maintained by the Northwest Territories government under the Territorial Parks Act of 1988. It is also listed as a Canadian Protected Area. The Park is a termination point of the Frontier Trail, and the Cameron Falls Trail.
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Chan Lake Territorial Park
Chan Lake Territorial Park is a small territorial park in the Northwest Territories of Canada, one of six such parks on Yellowknife Highway (Hwy #3), and one of 34 parks maintained by the Northwest Territories government under the Territorial Parks Act of 1988.
The park is positioned between the road and the lake, 123 km north of the intersection between the Yellowknife Highway and the Waterfall Highway (Hwy #1), and is located at the north end of the Mackenzie Bison Sanctuary. It provides facilities for people travelling between Fort Providence and Yellowknife. The community nearest to the park is Behchoko…0 votes -
Parry's Rock Wintering Site
Wintering site of William Edward Parry's expedition of the Northwest Passage, 1819
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Nagwichoonjik (Mackenzie River)
Flows through Gwichya Gwich'in traditional homeland and continues to be culturally, socially and spiritually significant
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Hay River Reserve / K'atlodeeche First Nation / Hay River Dene 1
Hay River Reserve (also known as K'atlodeeche/Katl'odeeche First Nation or Hay River Dene 1) is one of only two Indian reserves in Canada's Northwest Territories. Located in the South Slave Region, it is a Slavey community with a population of 309 (97.1% First Nations) as of the 2006 census. The main languages on the reserve are South Slavey, Chipewyan, and English. The reserve covers an area of 134.21 km2 (51.82 sq mi) and claims a band membership of 525 people, and is a member of the Dehcho First Nations. The reserve is governed by a Band Council, consisting of a…
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Sahoyúé-§ehdacho
Expression of cultural values through the interrelationship between landscape, oral histories, graves and cultural resources. At 5,565 km2, it's about the size of Prince Edward Island, and by far the largest National Historic Site in the country. Within the national park system, the site is even larger than 28 national parks and national park reserves.
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Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre
The Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre (PWNHC) is the Government of the Northwest Territories' museum and archives. Located in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada, the PWNHC acquires and manages objects and archival materials that represent the cultures and history of the Northwest Territories (Northwest Territories), plays a primary role in documenting and providing information about the cultures and history of the Northwest Territories, and provides professional museum, archives and cultural resource management services to partner organizations.
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Northern Life Museum
The Northern Life Museum is in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, Canada. The museum has a collection of over 13,000 artifacts representing the peoples and history of the North. Many of the artifacts were collected by the Oblate Fathers and the Grey Nuns during their missionary work in the North.The artifacts were first displayed in 1964 in the basement of Grandin College. In 1972, the Northern Anthropological and Cultural Society was formed in Fort Smith with the purpose of promoting, building and maintaining a museum. The Northern Life Museum is the oldest museum in the Northwest Territories.
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Fort Reliance
Fort Reliance is located on the east arm of Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada. It was originally built in 1833 by George Back during the Arctic Land Expedition to the Arctic Ocean via the Back River. The expedition, partly scientific and partly searching for the missing John Ross, used Fort Reliance as a winter camp. Currently Fort Reliance, one of Canada's National Historic Sites, is listed by Parks Canada as the "Oldest continuously operating Hudson's Bay Company post, 1833". Together with the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Parks Canada is working to preserve and protect the site.
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Fort Resolution / Deninoo Kue
Fort Resolution (Deninoo Kue, "moose island") is a "settlement corporation" in the South Slave Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada. The community is situated at the mouth of the Slave River, on the shore of Great Slave Lake, and at the end of Fort Resolution Highway (Highway 6).
It is the oldest documented community in the Northwest Territories, and was a key link in the fur trade's water route north. Fort Resolution is designated as a national historic site, due to its importance to aboriginal culture and fur trade history.0 votes -
Church of Our Lady of Good Hope
The Church of Our Lady of Good Hope is an historic Carpenter Gothic-style Roman Catholic church building located on a bluff overlooking the Mackenzie River in Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories, Canada. Only 45 feet by 25 feet in size, it was built between 1865 and 1885 as a mission of the Oblate Fathers. Father Émile Petitot, "renowned ethnologist, linguist and geographer of the Canadian northwest" was a resident of the mission from 1864 to 1878.
The building's simple exterior, with its wooden siding, steep pitched roof, lancet windows and lancet entranceway under a steepled bell tower, make it a…0 votes -
The Wildcat Café
The Wildcat Cafe is a popular summer restaurant in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada located in what was then the central business district of the city. It is a vintage log cabin structure and represents the mining camp style of early Yellowknife. The structure is a City of Yellowknife Heritage Building, designated in 1992. First opened in 1937 by owners Willie Wylie and Smokey Stout, it is said to be the oldest restaurant in Yellowknife.Subsequent owners were Carl and Dorothy Jensen (1939-1942) and Mah Gow (1942-1951), Yellowknife's first recorded Chinese resident. The cafe closed in 1951 with the illness of Mr.…
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Fall Caribou Crossing National Historic Site
Fall Caribou Crossing National Historic Site of Canada spans a section of the lower Kazan River (Harvaqtuuq) between the Kazan Falls and the narrows in Thirty Mile Lake (Quukilruq) in the Territory of Nunavut. In this area, the river has an east-west orientation, and is relatively narrow with gently sloping shorelines. The entire area is criss-crossed with extensive caribou trails. The designation refers to the entire cultural landscape with its associated resources.
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Dealy Island
Composed largely of loose rock and tundra, Dealy Island has long been a landmark for arctic explorers. Located off the south coast of Melville Island, a large storehouse and cairn were built there in 1853. A whaleboat, two sledges and three graves were also left on the island at that time.
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Beechey Island
Beechey Island is an island located in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago of Nunavut, Canada, in Wellington Channel. It is separated from the southwest corner of Devon Island by Barrow Strait. Other features include Wellington Channel, Erebus Harbour, and Terror Bay. The first European to visit the island was in 1819 by Captain William Edward Parry and was named for Frederick William Beechey (1796–1856) who was then serving as Parry's lieutenant.
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Marble Island
Marble Island is one of several uninhabited Canadian arctic islands in Nunavut, Canada, located within western Hudson Bay. The closest community is Rankin Inlet. During the age of sail, this island was valued as a harbour for overwintering in the Arctic Ocean. Currently, it is a sacred site of the Inuit: modern visitors are expected to crawl ashore, or die exactly a year later.
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Port Refuge National Historic Site of Canada
Port Refuge National Historic Site of Canada is located in a small bay off the south coast of Grinnell Peninsula, on Devon Island, Nunavut. The site is comprised of two parcels of land: one is located on raised terraces on the western and northern shores of the port, and the other is located at Cape Hornby on the eastern shore of the harbour. Contained within these parcels are a series of archaeological sites dating to prehistoric occupation, including a Thule winter village near the entrance of the bay, and remains of Pre-Dorset dwellings. More recent cairns and markers dot the…
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