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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Ryan Premises
A cultural landscape comprising residential and commercial structures typical of a 19th-century Newfoundland mercantile outport, still located in their original setting by the sea
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Rennie's Mill Road Historic District
Originally a suburb of large, wooden houses mainly from the late 19th to the early 20th centuries; a remarkably homogeneous grouping of upper middle class residences, associated with prominent Newfoundlanders of the period
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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
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Port Union Historic District
The only town in Canada founded by a union; built by the Fishermen's Protective Union along an empty stretch of shoreline, the town was noted for its commercial success in the face of fierce competition from commercial merchants
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Port au Choix
Two exceptional rare and rich pre-contact archaeological sites, one a Maritime Archaic cemetery and the other a Paleo-Eskimo habitation site
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Okak
Sixty archaeological sites, dating from 5550 BCE onwards, representative of habitation from Maritime Archaic to Labrador Inuit; location of the second oldest Moravian mission in Labrador, founded in 1776 and abandoned in 1919
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Murray Premises
A complex of three former warehouses; commemorative of the offices and warehouses which once lined St. John's harbour and of the city's long tradition of sea-based trade
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Mallard Cottage
A wood-frame house with hip roof and central chimney, typical of the vernacular housing built by Irish immigrants in the first half of the 9th century
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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
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L'Anse Amour
One of the largest and longest used Aboriginal habitation sites in Labrador; earliest known funeral monument in the New World
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Indian Point
Well documented Beothuk site
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Hopedale Mission
A complex of large, wooden buildings constructed by the Moravian Church; commemorates the interaction between Labrador Inuit and missionaries, and representative of Moravian Mission architecture in Labrador
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Hebron Mission
A complex of linked buildings, including a church, mission house, and store, all in a Germanic-influenced architectural style; a Moravian centre of religious instruction to the local Inuit, which also served commercial and medical purposes
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Hawthorne Cottage
A Picturesque cottage with a wrap-around verandah and a home of Arctic-explorer Robert Bartlett
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Harbour Grace Court House
A two-storey stone building characterized by a split staircase on the front facade; the oldest surviving public building in the province
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Cape Pine Lighthouse
First of a series of prefabricated iron lighthouses erected in Newfoundlandin the 19th century, for transport to and erection at rugged sites; the first landfall light built on the dangerous south coast of the Avalon Peninsula to guide shipping through the Cabot Strait
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Fort William
The site of a fort which served as the original headquarters of the British garrison in Newfoundland, and which was attacked three times by the French; the fort represented the first official military presence in St. John's, although it was supplanted by Fort Townshend in the 1770s, and demolished in 1881
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Fort Townshend
An archaeological site at the former location of a British fort that served as the headquarters of the Newfoundland garrison from 1779 until 1871; the site is now occupied by The Rooms
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Fort Amherst
The site of British fortification built to guard the mouth of St. John's harbour, of which there are no visible remains; named after William Amherst who recaptured St. John's from the French in 1762
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Former Newfoundland Railway Headquarters / Railway Coastal Museum
A two-and-a-half-storey stone building with both Second Empire and Chteau design elements; commemorates the important role played by the Newfoundland Railway in the social, economic and political history of the province
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