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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Doukhobors at Veregin
The administrative, distribution and spiritual centre for the Doukhoborsettlements in the region, the focus of which is a large prayer house
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Doukhobor Dugout House
One of many such dugout houses constructed by Doukhobors upon arrival in Canada, and a shelter type used by many settlers of various ethnicities upon their arrival on the prairies; the only known partially surviving example of this type of shelter
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Cypress Hills Massacre
The site where American traders attacked a Nakoda camp and killed a number of inhabitants; one of the first major tests of Canada's law enforcement policies in Western Canada
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Cumberland House
The HudsonÕs Bay Company's first inland fur-trading post, around which SaskatchewanÕs oldest permanent settlement was founded by Samuel Hearne; only visible remnant today is a stone-walled 1890s gunpowder house
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College Building
The centrepiece of the best grouping of Collegiate Gothic university buildings in Canada, surrounding a grassy oval known as "The Bowl"; the earliest and most important building on the University of Saskatchewan campus
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Claybank Brick Plant
A former industrial complex used for the manufacture of clay bricks from 1914 to 1989; key structures and brick-making equipment of the 1912-1937 period remain remarkably intact
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Carlton House
The site of forts built in 1810, 1845 and 1855 (with foundations and archaeological remains existing from the 1855 fort); served as a strategically placed HudsonÕs Bay Company fort and a North West Mounted Police post, and the location where Treaty 6 was signed
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Biggar Railway Station (Grand Trunk Pacific)
A one-and-a-half-storey, timber-frame train station that commemorates the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway's role in the development of Western Canada and the distinctive contribution its stations made to CanadaÕs architectural
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Battle of Tourond's Coulee / Fish Creek
The 36-hectare (89-acre) site of a battle between MiddletonÕs North West Field Force and Gabriel DumontÕs Mtis and First Nations forces; a psychological victory for the Mtis during the North-West Rebellion
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Battle of Duck Lake
A 12-hectare (30-acre) grassy lot that served as the site of the first battle of the North-West Rebellion, considered an important victory for the Mtis
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Battle of Cut Knife Hill
Site where an attack during the North-West Rebellion by 300 government troops was repulsed by members of the Poundmaker Cree Nation, led by Pitikwahanapiwiyin
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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
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Addison Sod House
A well-preserved and rare surviving example of a sod building, which was an important prairie form of construction and used extensively in the tall-grass regions
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Winterholme
A home originally built for local businessman Marmaduke Winter; a noted example of a conservative approach to the Queen Anne Revival style in Canadian domestic architecture
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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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St. Thomas Rectory / Commissariat House and Garden
A wooden building constructed by the Corps of Royal Engineers for the British military garrison; after 1870, it served as the rectory for the Old Garrison Church
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St. John's WWII Coastal Defences (Atlantic Bulwark)
St. John's served as the main North American base for trans-Atlantic escortsduring the Second World War; Canadian and American gun batteries and Canadian air force squadrons protected St. John's harbour
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St. John's Ecclesiastical District
Buildings and landscape features associated with the Roman Catholic, Anglican, United (formerly Methodist) and Presbyterian denominations; representative of the involvement of Christian institutions in the history and political life of St. John's and the province
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St. John's Court House
A granite and sandstone Romanesque Revival-style courthouse; the most elaborate courthouse in the province and representative of the judicial system in Newfoundland
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St. John the Baptist Anglican Cathedral
A magnificent stone cathedral designed by George Gilbert Scott for CanadaÕs oldest Anglican parish; a nationally significant example of Gothic Revival architecture, and one that conforms to the tenets of the Cambridge Camden Society
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