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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Fort York Armoury
Fort York Armoury is a Canadian Forces facility located near the grounds of the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located at the intersection of Fleet Street and Fort York Blvd, close to the historic Fort York site in the neighbourhood of Fort York. It currently hosts several units of the Primary Reserve and the Canadian Cadet Movement.
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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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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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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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Grand Pre
Site of the Expulsion of the Acadians.
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The Plains of Abraham
The site of many clashes for supremacy between the French and British Empires, the park is the scene of the 1759 Conquest, which changed the fate of North America. Apart from its historical past, the park is to Québec what Central Park and Hyde Park are to New York and London: a city park of outstanding value, the lungs of the city. One hundred and three hectares of meadow and grassy knolls, decked with flowers or covered with snow, are there for residents and visitors to enjoy.
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Fourth York Post Office
Toronto's First Post Office (or Fourth York Post Office) is the oldest purpose-built post office in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and the only surviving example of a post office that functioned as a department of the British Royal Mail.
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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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Eglinton Theatre
Formerly The Eglinton Theatre, this historic landmark has been restored to its original 1937 grandeur! Holding true to its art deco décor, The Eglinton Grand is adorned with rich woods including mahogany and ebony, elegant marble, beautiful wainscoting and period furniture. The balcony level will create an ideal private cocktail area. The venue can host dinners from 100 to 450 for a sit down dinner and cocktail receptions for up to 700 guests. Also included onsite is a gorgeous ceremonial room called The Gallery. This space can be used for ceremonies, break out areas or as an area to enhance…
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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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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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Don Brewery
The Don Brewery was one of the largest breweries in 19th century Toronto. The brewery's lager building, built in 1876, survives to the present day, and was designated a heritage structure in 1996.
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Chapel of St. James-the-Less
The Chapel of St. James-the-Less sits atop a knoll at the highest point in the St. James Cemetery. In its vigorous, harmonious composition, this small funeral chapel is a splendid example of Victorian Gothic design. Its sense of strength and spirituality is derived from the subtle contrast of its stone walls, enveloping roofs, and soaring spire. Erected in 1860 and opened in 1861, the chapel was designed by Frederick William Cumberland and Storm, one of Toronto's leading 19th-century architectural firms.
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Prince Edward Viaduct
I read about this bridge in Michael Ondaatje's novel In the Skin of a Lion, which I think is one of the great literary masterpieces (as least for me personally). The Bloor Viaduct is not only a literary icon but a real part of Canadian heritage too, the fact that it stands today standing for the individual stories of all the Canadian immigrants who lived in the area and worked on building the bridge. In the past that Ondaatje wrote about, people thought of the bridge, "It will carry trains that have not even been invented yet". Today I ride…
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Birkbeck Building
The Birkbeck Building is a four-storey office building located in downtown Toronto, Ontario. Distinguished by its classically inspired architecture, grand design, rich building materials and eclectic sculptural decoration, this building was intended to create an air of ordered permanence and prosperity. Its steel frame and fireproof finishing materials placed it in the vanguard of building technology in its time. The official recognition refers to the building on its legal lot.
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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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Steele Narrows
The site of the last engagement of the North-West Rebellion; a cavalry troop led by Sam Steele overtook a party of Cree led by Wandering Spiritand Big Bear
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Seager Wheeler's Maple Grove Farm
A 17-hectare (42-acre) farmstead established by farmer, agronomist and pioneering seed breeder Seager Wheeler; representative of a typical prairiefarm of the 1898-1940 era, and reflective of Seager's work during that era
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Saskatoon Railway Station (Canadian Pacific)
A two-storey, Chteau-style railway station; commemorates the Canadian Pacific Railway and the smaller stations built by the line during its prosperous years
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