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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Gravelbourg Ecclesiastical Buildings
A Cathedral, BishopÕs residence and convent; symbolic of the efforts of the Roman Catholic Church in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to colonize Western Canada with French Canadians
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Old Government House / Saint-Charles Scholasticate
The site of the first Government House of the (then) Northwest Territories; the house was destroyed by fire in 2003
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Next of Kin Memorial Avenue
A 0.7-kilometre (0.43 mi)-long lane beginning at a pair of stone pedestals, flanked on either side by a single row of mature elm trees and commemorative bronze plaques, and ending in a paved circle surrounding a stone memorial cairn; an excellent example of the "Roads of Remembrance" phenomenon which developed to honour the dead of the First World War
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Motherwell Homestead
A 3.59-hectare (8.9-acre) farmstead with a two-storey, stone farmhouse; noted for its associations with William Richard Motherwell and illustrative of a prairie homestead from the Western Canada settlement period
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Moose Jaw Court House
A brick court house with Beaux-Arts design, Neoclassical detailing and Bedford stone trim; symbolic of the new provincial justice system of Saskatchewan of 1908, and the only court house in the province designed by Pearson and Darling
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Last Mountain Lake Bird Sanctuary
On the recommendation of Edgar Dewdney, Lieutenant-Governor of the North-West Territories, this sanctuary located at the northern end of Last Mountain Lake was set aside in 1887 for the protection of wildfowl, the first such reserve on the continent
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ële--la-Crosse
A pre-contact gathering place for Aboriginal peoples, where Louis Primeauestablished a trading post in 1775; the site served as an important provision depot for the North West Company and the Hudson's Bay Companyestablished its first post here in 1799
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Gray Burial Site
One of oldest burial sites on the Prairies
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Frenchman Butte
The site where the Wood Cree and the Alberta Field Force waged the Battle of Frenchman's Butte on May 28, 1885 as part of the North-West Rebellion
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Fort Walsh
A fort which served as headquarters of the North West Mounted Police from 1878 to 1882
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Fort Qu'Appelle
Originally a major Hudson's Bay Company provision post for the southern Prairies surrounded by a log palisade; now located at the townÕs northern edge, with one remaining one original building that serves as a museum
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Fort Pitt
An archaeological site containining the remains of two Hudson's Bay Companyforts; the second fort was burned during the North-West Rebellion by Big BearÕs followers after the North West Mounted Police had withdrawn to Battleford
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Fort Pelly
An archaeological site on the site of the HudsonÕs Bay Company fur trade post located at the elbow of the Assiniboine River near the Swan River; the headquarters of the company's Swan River District for almost 50 years
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Fort Livingstone
An archaeological site at the location of the former capital of the Northwest Territories (1876-1877) and which once housed the first North West Mounted Police barracks in Western Canada
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Fort Esprance
An archaeological site believed to contain the remains of two late 18th- and early 19th-century fur trade forts; the earliest and most permanent of the North West CompanyÕs posts related to the Assiniboine River fur trade
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Fort Battleford
An early North West Mounted Police post, representative of the role of the police force in the 1876 to 1885 period and specifically of the role played by the force during the North-West Rebellion
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Fort la Corne
Site near where Louis de la Corne built Fort St. Louis in 1753, the furthest western point of New France; subsequently the site of several fur trade posts, including a post established in 1846 by the Hudson's Bay Company and named after Corne
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Former Prince Albert City Hall
Former city hall with bell tower, now serving as an arts centre; one the few remaining 19th-century town halls on the Canadian Prairies, and a reflection of the town's status and optimism at the time of the hall's construction
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Forestry Farm Park and Zoo
Opened as a tree nursery station and model farm under the federal Department of the Interior in order to develop new and scientific farming methods; now a municipal zoo
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Esterhazy Flour Mill
A rare and complete flour milling complex, of the type that was crucial to the grain industry in Saskatchewan and which contributed to the development of farming communities such as Esterhazy
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