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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Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres
The Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres are a pair of stacked theatres in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Winter Garden Theatre is seven stories above the Elgin Theatre. They are the last surviving Edwardian stacked theatres in the world.
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Fort Henry
British fort that served as the principal fortification among a series of military works designed to defend Kingston, its harbour and dockyard and the entrance to the Rideau Canal
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Fort Frontenac
Originally a French trading post that served as a gateway to the West, the base of Robert de LaSalle’s explorations and a French outpost against the Iroquois and English forces
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Hog's Back Park
Hog's Back Park is a glorious place to spend one's time, for a picnic, to see the falls, and to go for a walk or bike ride!
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Don Valley Brick Works
The Don Valley Brick Works, also known as Evergreen Brick Works, is a former quarry and industrial site located in the Don River valley in Toronto, Canada. The Don Valley Brick Works operated for nearly 100 years and provided bricks used to construct many well-known Toronto landmarks, such as Casa Loma, Osgoode Hall, Massey Hall, and the Ontario Legislature. Since the closure of the original factory, the quarry has been converted into a city park which includes a series of naturalized ponds, while the buildings have been restored and opened as an environmentally-focused community and cultural centre by Evergreen, a…
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Fort Langley National Historic Site of Canada
Fort Langley is the exact location where, a century and a half ago, a huge fur trade organization called the Hudson's Bay Company established a small post to trade with the First Nations of the West Coast. The enterprise grew, evolved, and influenced history, leading to the creation of the colony of British Columbia.
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Kawartha Trans Canada Trail
This 44 km long trail travels through three landscapes located in Southern Ontario- farmland, urban town/villages and hilly/rivers/lakes- very beautiful and accessible.
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Bellevue House
A noted example of Italianate architecture in the Picturesque manner in Canada, and the former residence of John A. Macdonald, a Father of Confederation and the first Prime Minister of Canada
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Williams Lake Stampede
Held annually, on the Canada Day long weekend, the Williams Lake Stampede features Canadian Professional Rodeo Association action including bull riding, barrel racing, bareback riding, tie-down roping, steer wrestling, team roping and chuckwagon races. The Williams Lake Stampede plays host to many top cowboys and international rodeo competitors from Canada and the United States most of which continue on the circuit to the Calgary Stampede, the following weekend.
The Stampede festivities also include a parade of floats from local organizations, such as 4H groups, native bands, community service groups, the stampede royalty and local merchants. There is also a carnival…1 vote -
Grand Pre
Site of the Expulsion of the Acadians.
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Signal Hill
A landmark promontory that frames the entrance to St. John's Harbour, identifiable by the profile of Cabot Tower; site played important roles in Canada's defence and communications histories
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Dinosaur Provincial Park
Dinosaur Provincial Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located about two and a half hours drive southeast of Calgary, Alberta, Canada or 48 kilometres (30 mi), about a half hour drive, northeast of Brooks. The park is situated in the valley of the Red Deer River, which is noted for its striking badland topography. The park is well known for being one of the richest dinosaur fossil locales in the world. Forty dinosaur species have been discovered at the park and more than 500 specimens have been removed and exhibited in museums across the globe. The renowned fossil assemblage…
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Ann Baillie Building
One of the first purpose-built nurses' residences in Canada, the building represents the professionalization of nursing in Canada in the early 20th-century, and now serves as the Museum of Health Care
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Pitt Meadows Museum
The Museum maintains a small community archives with holdings that consist of documents created by the municipal government from the 1930s to the 1970s. These documents are primarily records created by the finance department and are not a complete collection.
Other documents include those created by the Pitt Meadows School District from 1912 to 1945, containing correspondence, minutes, and financial records. As well, there are records of various community groups, businesses and families that reflect the social, cultural, and economic life of the community from the 1880s.
Other holdings consist of 49 maps, 1000 photographic images, an oral history collection,…
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Fort York Heritage Conservation District
Fort York is a historic site of military fortifications and related buildings on the west side of downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The fort was built by the British Army and Canadian militia troops in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, to defend the settlement and the new capital of the Upper Canada region from the threat of a military attack, principally from the newly independent United States.
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Eaton's 7th Floor Auditorium and Round Room
The Carlu is an historic event space in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Known for many years as the "Eaton's Seventh Floor", the Carlu is one of Toronto's best examples of Art Moderne architecture.Itself an Art Moderne masterpiece, the Eaton's Seventh Floor was at the heart of Toronto's cultural life for many years. Today, the space acts as a special events venue.
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Batoche
A Mtis community and the site of 1885 Battle of Batoche; commemorates both the North-West Rebellion and Mtis river lot land use patterns
12 votes -
Water Street Historic District
Twenty 19th-century mercantile buildings on Water Street near the harbour; representative of the business establishments associated with the Newfoundland fisheries and the Atlantic trade
17 votes -
Harbourfront Centre
Harbourfront Centre is a key cultural organization on Toronto, Ontario's waterfront, situated at 235 Queens Quay West. Established as a crown corporation in 1972 by the federal government to create a waterfront park, it became a non-profit organization in 1991. Funding comes from corporate sponsors, government grants, individual donors and entrepreneurial activities. Harbourfront Centre has a seating capacity of 2,000.
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L'Anse aux Meadows
The first known settlement established by Vikings in North America, containing the earliest evidence of Europeans in Canada; a World Heritage Site
12 votes
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