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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Lighthouse Park, West Vancouver
Lighthouse Park is a popular park in West Vancouver, Canada. It covers about 75 hectares (190 acres) and it is almost completely covered with rugged, ****** rainforest. At the southernmost tip of the peninsula is Point Atkinson Lighthouse with an impressive landmark lighthouse built in 1875. Point Atkinson was first charted and named by Captain George Vancouver in 1792 and is a National Historic Site of Canada.
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Peggy's Cove
Peggy's Cove is a rural community close to Halifax, Nove Scotia. It is most famous for the Peggy's Point Lighthouse, and beautiful boulder formations overlooking Saint Margaret's Bay/the Atlantic Ocean. Lots of endangered and unusual wildlife can be spotted close to shore, such as the endangered leatherback sea turtle, and pinnipeds. This rugged and gorgeous terrain is an incredibly special site to see in summer or winter.
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Basilica of St. John the Baptist
Stone cathedral, constructed in the Lombard Romanesque Revival style, which has played an important role in the province's religious, political and social history
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Manitoba Legislative Building
The Manitoba Legislative Building is the meeting place of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba,[2] in central Winnipeg. It was originally named the Manitoba Parliament Building, not Legislative.[2] The neoclassical building was completed in 1920 and stands seventy-seven meters tall (253 ft).[2] It was designed and built by Frank Worthington Simon (1862Ð1933)[3] and Henry Boddington III, along with other masons and many skilled craftsmen. The building is famous for the Golden Boy, a gold covered bronze statue based on the style of the Roman god Mercury, or the Greek god Hermes, at the top of the cupola, or domed ceiling.
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Niagara on the Lake
Niagara on the Lake
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The Forks National Historic Site of Canada
The Forks is a historic site, meeting place and green space in Downtown Winnipeg located at the confluence of the Red River and Assiniboine River. For at least 6000 years, the Forks has been the meeting place for early Aboriginal peoples, and since colonization has also been a meeting place for European fur traders, Mtis buffalo hunters, Scottish settlers, riverboat workers, railway pioneers and tens of thousands of immigrants.
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Butchart Gardens
Robert Pim Butchart (1856–1943) began manufacturing Portland cement in 1888 near his birthplace of Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada. He and his wife Jennie Butchart (1866–1950) came to the west coast of Canada because of rich limestone deposits necessary for cement production.
The Ross FountainIn 1904, they established their home near his quarry on Tod Inlet at the base of the Saanich Peninsula on Vancouver Island. [2]
In 1907, 65 year old garden designer Isaburo Kishida of Yokohama came to Victoria, at the request of his son, to build a tea garden for Esquimalt Gorge Park. This garden was wildly popular…
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Art Gallery of Ontario
The Art Gallery of Ontario was founded in 1900 and has provided excited exhibitions, programs and a place for Torontians, Canadian and tourists to understand why they boldly declare that Art Matters!
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Hamilton's Waterfalls
Hamilton, Ontario surprises as the unlikely Waterfall Capital of the World boasting over 100 waterfalls identified by Hamilton Conservation Authority, found along the Bruce Trail and the Niagara Escarpment. Hamilton offer interactive waterfall hikes and hosts a rotating illumination of various waterfalls weekly. Popular place for hiking, tourists, and weddings!
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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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Wolfe Island, the largest of the thousand islands
The island as a whole (which has a giant corn maze in the fall!) but specifically "Big Sandy Bay" which is a rare coastal ecological gem in ontario . It features a beautiful secluded beach and natural sand dunes, as well as rare plants and birds, wetlands and woodlands.
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Steveston Village
Today, Steveston still maintains the character of a quaint, historic fishing village, with over 600 fishing boats––Canada's largest fleet[citation needed]––calling Steveston Harbour home. Over the years, due to its still active fishing fleet, historic buildings, and National Historic Site, The Gulf of Georgia Cannery, Steveston is still very much a small fishing village, though changing quickly. It boasts over 350 businesses and services to accommodate its growing population. Steveston has become a popular place to visit and live. On sunny days, visitors flock to Steveston's waterfront boardwalks to enjoy the scenery, people and food. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steveston,_British_Columbia)
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The Rideau Canal
A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Rideau Canal is one of the oldest continually operated canal systems in North America. This scenic passageway stretches from Kingston to Ottawa and attracts tourists and visitors both in summer and winter alike.
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Beaty Biodiversity Museum
The Beaty Biodiversity Museum, located on the University of British Columbia campus, is home to Canada's largest blue whale skeleton and so much more. Explore over 20,000 square feet of collections and exhibits, participate in activities designed for visitors of all ages, interact with the specimens in our teaching lab, find out how researchers use the collection or watch films celebrating biodiversity in our auditorium.
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Aulavik National Park of Canada
Aulavik National Park (Inuvialuktun: place where people travel) is a national park located on Banks Island in the Northwest Territories of Canada. It is known for its access to the Thomsen River, one of the most northerly navigable rivers in North America. The park is a fly-in park, and protects approximately 12,274 km2 (4,739 sq mi) of Arctic Lowlands at the northern end of the island. The most practical way to visit the park is to charter a plane, and currently the park has four landing sites. Aulavik is considered a polar desert and often experiences high winds. Precipitation for…
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Crash 'n' Burn
The site of the Crash 'n' Burn was arguably Canada's first punk club, located at 15 Duncan St., Toronto, Ontario, at the corner of Duncan and Pearl. It existed for only a month and a half and was closed by the end of the Summer of 1977. In it's time this was a venue with an important role in supporting the eruption of punk music in Toronto, featuring such essential first-wave Canadian punk bands as The Viletones, Dead Boys, the Diodes, and Teenage Head. The site was occupied at the time by an artists collective comprised of students from neighbouring…
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Japanese Hall & School
Seized by the government as part of the Japanese Canadian internment during the Second World War, this building was an important centre of the Japanese community in Vancouver. It has since been returned and restored as a cultural centre and a language school has been added.
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St. Boniface Cathedral
Saint Boniface Cathedral is a Roman Catholic basilica and the cathedral of Saint Boniface, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.It is an important building in Winnipeg, and is the principal church in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Boniface, serving the eastern part of Manitoba province as well as the local Franco-Manitoban community. The basilica sits in the centre of the city at 190 avenue de la Cathdrale, Saint Boniface.
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