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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Fish Lake
An important site for traditional camps in the seasonal rounds of the Kwanlin Dün, Fish Lake is a beautiful hike just a short drive from Whitehorse. As the trail head starts at a higher altitude, it takes relatively little time to clear the tree line and walk along the ridge where you are met with panoramic views, including those of the Bonneville Lakes.
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Mantario Trail
Take a look at the Hiking Trail that runs through the White shell between Manitoba and Ontario.
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Little Limestone Lake Park Reserve
Little Limestone Lake Park Reserve is a small national park that contains one of the few limestone bed lakes in the world. Located about 500 km north of Winnipeg it has bright blue/green water.
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Assiniboine Park Zoo
Assiniboine Park Zoo is a zoo that was established in 1904 at the West end of Assiniboine Park in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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Little Manitou Lake
Five times saltier that the ocean! It's easy to float in this lake that's also believed to have healing powers.
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Hwy 13, Wetaskiwin, Ab
This short stretch of highway is a symbol of the treaty that began central Alberta settlements. Many original farms and houses still stand and 4 houses were given the centennial award for having kept the farms in their family. The highway is very documented in historical books and references. One of the 1st baptist churches of Canada was erected there as well as one of the 1st telephones. Hwy 13 goes generally unnoticed unless you look and realize that every tree was planted by hand, that the farms that stand tall where cleared by hand, that this was a fought…
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University of Alberta Museums
The University of Alberta Museums is a distributed network of 29 diverse museum collections located in faculties and departments across campus where they are used daily in teaching, research and community outreach programs. Paleontology, Geology, Ancient Classical Antiquities, Clothing and Textiles, Anthropology, Music, and Art museums are just a sample. The downtown Enterprise Square Gallery exhibits everything from the Art to the Zoology collection, with exhibits changing constantly.
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Jesse Ashbridge House
The Ashbridge Estate is an historic home in the east end of Toronto. The building is located on Queen Street East near Coxwell Avenue in the Ashbridge's neighbourhood, Toronto between Leslieville and The Beaches. It is the earliest known site of residential inhabitation in the east Toronto area.
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Balmoral Fire Hall
Located just off Yonge Street, south of St. Clair Avenue, Balmoral Fire Hall was built in an era when horses pulled hose wagons through its double doors. Still visible along the east wall is a second-storey projecting beam and doorway where hay was hoisted into a loft for feed. In the rear, a tower capable of drying 50-foot hoses still stands. The building was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1990, for its rare adoption of the Queen Anne style.
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Bank of Upper Canada Building
The Bank of Upper Canada Building, built by John Ewart (architect), is one of the oldest financial service buildings in Toronto, Canada. Built in 1827-34, it housed the Bank of Upper Canada until the bank's collapse in 1866. It is located at 252 Adelaide Street East. It has been designated a National Historic Site of Canada since 1977.
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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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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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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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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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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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Cataraqui Cemetery
One of the best examples of a medium-sized rural or garden cemetery in Canada, containing a range of remarkable monuments, a Gothic Revival lodge, and the graves of many notable Canadians, including the gravesite of Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada’s first Prime Minister (itself a NHSC)
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Elizabeth Cottage
A representative example of a 19th-century Gothic Revival villa
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Kingston Customs House
A limestone former customs house; an excellent example of the architectural quality of mid-19th-century public buildings designed in the British classical tradition
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Kingston Dry Dock
An important construction and repair facility for ships on the Great Lakes; noted for the Second World War naval vessels, notably corvettes, built in this dry dock
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