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.
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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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Nahanni National Park Reserve
Nahanni National Park Reserve in the Dehcho Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada, approximately 500 km (311 mi) west of Yellowknife, protects a portion of the Mackenzie Mountains Natural Region. The centrepiece of the park is the South Nahanni River. Four noteworthy canyons reaching 1,000 m (3,300 ft) in depth, called First, Second, Third and Fourth Canyon, line this spectacular whitewater river. The name Nahanni comes from the indigenous Dene language name for the area; Naha Deh, which means "river of the land of the Naha people".
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Twin Falls Territorial Park
Two beautiful and powerful waterfalls. No fences between you and the rushing water. Pure nature.
Think you could handle the 100ft drop in a kayak? The world record for highest waterfall descent was set here.
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Pilot's Monument
Located high above Yellowknife's Old Town, this viewpoint offers panoramic views of the hard Yellowknife landscape while paying homage to the bush pilot's role in opening up the North.
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Parry's Rock Wintering Site
Wintering site of William Edward Parry's expedition of the Northwest Passage, 1819
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Northern Arts and Cultural Centre
The Northern Arts and Cultural Centre is located in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. It is the only performing arts centre in the Northwest Territories. The 313 seat Centre opened May 3, 1984. Created by Yellowknife residents with major support from The Globe and Mail newspaper, the Centre was built with government, business, foundation and individual contributions from across Canada. Since then, with a mandate to Òencourage the development of the performing arts from all cultural traditions", the institution has become the central point in the territory for community, territorial, national and international performing artists.
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Wood Buffalo National Park
Wood Buffalo National Park, located in northeastern Alberta and southern Northwest Territories, is the largest national park in Canada at 44,807 km2 (17,300 sq mi). It is also the largest national park in North America and the second largest in the world. The park was established in 1922 to protect the world's largest herd of free roaming Wood Bison, currently estimated at more than 5,000. It is one of two known nesting sites of whooping cranes.
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Fred Henne Territorial Park
Fred Henne Territorial Park is a territorial park in the Northwest Territories of Canada, located on Long Lake near Yellowknife, one of 34 parks maintained by the Northwest Territories government under the Territorial Parks Act of 1988. It is also listed as a Canadian Protected Area. The Park is a termination point of the Frontier Trail, and the Cameron Falls Trail.
The park is named for former mayor of Yellowknife, Fred Henne.0 votes -
Chan Lake Territorial Park
Chan Lake Territorial Park is a small territorial park in the Northwest Territories of Canada, one of six such parks on Yellowknife Highway (Hwy #3), and one of 34 parks maintained by the Northwest Territories government under the Territorial Parks Act of 1988.
The park is positioned between the road and the lake, 123 km north of the intersection between the Yellowknife Highway and the Waterfall Highway (Hwy #1), and is located at the north end of the Mackenzie Bison Sanctuary. It provides facilities for people travelling between Fort Providence and Yellowknife. The community nearest to the park is Behchoko…0 votes -
The Wildcat Café
The Wildcat Cafe is a popular summer restaurant in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada located in what was then the central business district of the city. It is a vintage log cabin structure and represents the mining camp style of early Yellowknife. The structure is a City of Yellowknife Heritage Building, designated in 1992. First opened in 1937 by owners Willie Wylie and Smokey Stout, it is said to be the oldest restaurant in Yellowknife.Subsequent owners were Carl and Dorothy Jensen (1939-1942) and Mah Gow (1942-1951), Yellowknife's first recorded Chinese resident. The cafe closed in 1951 with the illness of Mr.…
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Nagwichoonjik (Mackenzie River)
Flows through Gwichya Gwich'in traditional homeland and continues to be culturally, socially and spiritually significant
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Hay River Reserve / K'atlodeeche First Nation / Hay River Dene 1
Hay River Reserve (also known as K'atlodeeche/Katl'odeeche First Nation or Hay River Dene 1) is one of only two Indian reserves in Canada's Northwest Territories. Located in the South Slave Region, it is a Slavey community with a population of 309 (97.1% First Nations) as of the 2006 census. The main languages on the reserve are South Slavey, Chipewyan, and English. The reserve covers an area of 134.21 km2 (51.82 sq mi) and claims a band membership of 525 people, and is a member of the Dehcho First Nations. The reserve is governed by a Band Council, consisting of a…
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Sahoyúé-§ehdacho
Expression of cultural values through the interrelationship between landscape, oral histories, graves and cultural resources. At 5,565 km2, it's about the size of Prince Edward Island, and by far the largest National Historic Site in the country. Within the national park system, the site is even larger than 28 national parks and national park reserves.
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Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre
The Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre (PWNHC) is the Government of the Northwest Territories' museum and archives. Located in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada, the PWNHC acquires and manages objects and archival materials that represent the cultures and history of the Northwest Territories (Northwest Territories), plays a primary role in documenting and providing information about the cultures and history of the Northwest Territories, and provides professional museum, archives and cultural resource management services to partner organizations.
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Northern Life Museum
The Northern Life Museum is in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, Canada. The museum has a collection of over 13,000 artifacts representing the peoples and history of the North. Many of the artifacts were collected by the Oblate Fathers and the Grey Nuns during their missionary work in the North.The artifacts were first displayed in 1964 in the basement of Grandin College. In 1972, the Northern Anthropological and Cultural Society was formed in Fort Smith with the purpose of promoting, building and maintaining a museum. The Northern Life Museum is the oldest museum in the Northwest Territories.
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Fort Reliance
Fort Reliance is located on the east arm of Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada. It was originally built in 1833 by George Back during the Arctic Land Expedition to the Arctic Ocean via the Back River. The expedition, partly scientific and partly searching for the missing John Ross, used Fort Reliance as a winter camp. Currently Fort Reliance, one of Canada's National Historic Sites, is listed by Parks Canada as the "Oldest continuously operating Hudson's Bay Company post, 1833". Together with the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Parks Canada is working to preserve and protect the site.
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Fort Resolution / Deninoo Kue
Fort Resolution (Deninoo Kue, "moose island") is a "settlement corporation" in the South Slave Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada. The community is situated at the mouth of the Slave River, on the shore of Great Slave Lake, and at the end of Fort Resolution Highway (Highway 6).
It is the oldest documented community in the Northwest Territories, and was a key link in the fur trade's water route north. Fort Resolution is designated as a national historic site, due to its importance to aboriginal culture and fur trade history.0 votes -
Church of Our Lady of Good Hope
The Church of Our Lady of Good Hope is an historic Carpenter Gothic-style Roman Catholic church building located on a bluff overlooking the Mackenzie River in Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories, Canada. Only 45 feet by 25 feet in size, it was built between 1865 and 1885 as a mission of the Oblate Fathers. Father Émile Petitot, "renowned ethnologist, linguist and geographer of the Canadian northwest" was a resident of the mission from 1864 to 1878.
The building's simple exterior, with its wooden siding, steep pitched roof, lancet windows and lancet entranceway under a steepled bell tower, make it a…0 votes
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