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 Aero Space Museum of Calgary
The Aero Space Museum of Calgary is a museum in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The museum is located immediately south of the Calgary International Airport. Over 24 aircraft are on display, as well as 58 aeronautical engines. A section details the Canadian space programs. Archives containing documents about aeronautics are also located on the premises.
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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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The mountain parks! Specifically the hot springs that our national parks were founded on!
The Cave and Basin, that was discovered in 1985, which allowed for our government to create the third national park in the world set the start for all these places. So the hot springs in the mountain parks that we are still able to enjoy today.
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Waterton Lakes National Park
Waterton Lakes National Park is a national park located in the southwest corner of Alberta, Canada, and borders Glacier National Park in Montana, USA. Waterton was Canada's fourth national park, formed in 1895 and named after Waterton Lake, in turn after the Victorian naturalist and conservationist Charles Waterton. The park contains 505 km2 (195 sq mi) of rugged mountains and wilderness.
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Abbot Pass Refuge Cabin
An alpine hut located at an elevation of 2925 metres in the Alberta Rockies, near the continental divide in Banff National Park, near its boundary with Yoho National Park in British Columbia
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Jasper House National Historic Site of Canada
Archaeological remains of a fur trade post that served as a major destination for travellers using the Athabasca and the Yellowhead passes and the First Nations route through the Smoky River Pass.
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Kinbrook Island Provincial Park
Kinbrook Island Provincial Park is a provincial park in Alberta, Canada. The park is situated at an elevation of 770 m (2,530 ft) and has a surface of 11 km2 (4.2 sq mi). It was established on November 14, 1951 and is maintained by Alberta Tourism, Parks and Recreation.
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Athabasca Pass
A major point on the fur trade route between Rupert's Land and the Columbia District, used by the York Factory Express
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The Beaver Boardwalk
The Beaver Boardwalk gives people access to explore a wetlands habitat, an ecosystem that is not often easily accessible. The boardwalk allows easy viewing of a large variety of wildlife that calls the wetlands home. Visitors can expect to see waterfowl, songbirds, amphibians, aquatic insects, muskrats and the main attraction, a family of wild beavers. The Boardwalk is located in the town of Hinton. It is free and accessible year round, it connects to an extensive hiking and biking trail system.
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Heritage Hall of the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology
A three-storey educational building prominently situated on the brow of the Bow River valley, constructed in the Collegiate Gothic style, representative of the growth of post-secondary educational institutions in Canada in the early twentieth century
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Wetaskiwin Court House
A court house symbolic of the rapid growth of the justice system in Alberta, typifying court house design during this formative period in the growth of western Canada
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