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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The Royal Ontario Museum
An amazing museum that showcases amazing exhibits throughout the year. It's also a major source of memories for a lot of young people who have grown up in Toronto.
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26 votes
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Niagara Falls
Most amazing natural site in Ontario located close to millions of people
25 votes -
Ontario Science Centre
An iconic cultural attraction, the Ontario Science Centre is home to interactive experiences with science and technology. We not only develop and source the world’s best exhibitions – supplemented with relevant programming to provide engaging experiences – but aim to make a fundamental difference in the lives of our visitors. How: by providing them the skills and attributes to create a better future for the planet.
Our vision: Inspiring a lifelong journey of curiosity, discovery and action to create a better future for the planet.
Our purpose: The Ontario Science Centre delights, informs and challenges the communities we serve. We…
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Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres
The Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres are a pair of stacked theatres in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Winter Garden Theatre is seven stories above the Elgin Theatre. They are the last surviving Edwardian stacked theatres in the world.
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Don Valley Brick Works
The Don Valley Brick Works, also known as Evergreen Brick Works, is a former quarry and industrial site located in the Don River valley in Toronto, Canada. The Don Valley Brick Works operated for nearly 100 years and provided bricks used to construct many well-known Toronto landmarks, such as Casa Loma, Osgoode Hall, Massey Hall, and the Ontario Legislature. Since the closure of the original factory, the quarry has been converted into a city park which includes a series of naturalized ponds, while the buildings have been restored and opened as an environmentally-focused community and cultural centre by Evergreen, a…
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Kensington Market
Kensington Market is a distinctive multicultural neighbourhood in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Market is an older neighbourhood and one of the city's most well-known. In November 2006, it was designated a National Historic Site of Canada. Robert Fulford wrote in 1999 that "Kensington today is as much a legend as a district. The (partly) outdoor market has probably been photographed more often than any other site in Toronto."
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Terry Fox Memorial
Located in Thunder Bay, near the place where the Marathon of Hope ended, the memorial commemorates the life of a truly great Canadian.
9 votes -
Niagara on the Lake
Niagara on the Lake
7 votes -
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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7 votes
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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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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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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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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.
6 votes -
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.
6 votes -
Hog's Back Park
Hog's Back Park is a glorious place to spend one's time, for a picnic, to see the falls, and to go for a walk or bike ride!
5 votes -
marine museum of the great lakes (in kingston)
Along with housing the original pumping station and steam engines from 1891, the Museum has on display a wide ranging collection of marine artifacts and exhibits, a significant fine art collection, and is home to the Gordon C. Shaw Study Centre, and Audrey Rushbrook Memorial Library. Current exhibits highlight the growth of ship building and shipping technologies, the history of boat building, the life of the sailor, as well as regional Kingston's maritime history and our place on the Great Lakes. The recently opened Eco Gallery focuses on environmental issues/successes related to the Great Lakes.
Also available for touring is…4 votes -
Kingston City Hall
A prominent example of the Neoclassical style in Canada, with a landmark tholobate and dome; its scale and design are reflective of Kingtson's status at the time of construction as capital of the Province of Canada
4 votes -
Canadian Museum of Nature
The Canadian Museum of Nature (French: Muse Canadien de la nature) is a natural history museum in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Its collections, which were started by the Geological Survey of Canada in 1856, include all aspects of the intersection of human society and nature, from gardening to gene-splicing. The Museum is affiliated with the Canadian Museums Association, the Canadian Heritage Information Network, and the Virtual Museum of Canada.
4 votes
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