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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Batoche
A Mtis community and the site of 1885 Battle of Batoche; commemorates both the North-West Rebellion and Mtis river lot land use patterns
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Wanuskewin Heritage Park
Wanuskewin Heritage Park is a non-profit cultural and historical centre of the First Nations. In the Cree language, wnaskwin means "being at peace with oneself". The site is a National Historic Site of Canada due to the importance of its archaeological resources representing nearly 6000 years of the history of the Northern Plains peoples
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Dunlop Art Gallery
The Regina Public Library has been exhibiting art continuously since 1949, when art was presented in the periodicals reading room. In 1964, a multi-purpose art gallery was built as part of the Library's current location.
The Gallery was named the Dunlop Art Gallery in 1972, after Ms Marjorie Dunlop. Ms Dunlop was the former Chief Librarian of the Regina Public Library.
The Gallery has been professionally staffed since 1962.
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Grasslands National Park
Grasslands National Park represents the Prairie Grasslands natural region, protecting one of the nation's few remaining areas of undisturbed dry mixed-grass/shortgrass prairie grassland. The park is located in the World Wildlife Fund-defined Northern short grasslands ecoregion, which spans much of southern Saskatchewan, southern Alberta, and the northern Great Plains states in the USA. The unique landscape and harsh, semi-arid climate provide niches for several adapted plants and animals. The park and surrounding area house the country's only black-tailed prairie dog colonies.
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Frenchman Butte
The site where the Wood Cree and the Alberta Field Force waged the Battle of Frenchman's Butte on May 28, 1885 as part of the North-West Rebellion
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Cumberland House
The HudsonÕs Bay Company's first inland fur-trading post, around which SaskatchewanÕs oldest permanent settlement was founded by Samuel Hearne; only visible remnant today is a stone-walled 1890s gunpowder house
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Battle of Duck Lake
A 12-hectare (30-acre) grassy lot that served as the site of the first battle of the North-West Rebellion, considered an important victory for the Mtis
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Athabasca Sand Dunes Provincial Park
The Athabasca Sand Dunes consist of a series of dune fields stretching for about 100 km along the south shore of Lake Athabasca in northwest Saskatchewan. This is the largest active sand surface in Canada and one of the most northern sets of major dune fields in the world. The outstanding scenery is combined with a unique ecosystem, rich in rare and endemic (found only here) plants which scientists consider an evolutionary puzzle.
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ële--la-Crosse
A pre-contact gathering place for Aboriginal peoples, where Louis Primeauestablished a trading post in 1775; the site served as an important provision depot for the North West Company and the Hudson's Bay Companyestablished its first post here in 1799
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Battle of Tourond's Coulee / Fish Creek
The 36-hectare (89-acre) site of a battle between MiddletonÕs North West Field Force and Gabriel DumontÕs Mtis and First Nations forces; a psychological victory for the Mtis during the North-West Rebellion
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Doukhobors at Veregin
The administrative, distribution and spiritual centre for the Doukhoborsettlements in the region, the focus of which is a large prayer house
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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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Forestry Farm Park and Zoo
Opened as a tree nursery station and model farm under the federal Department of the Interior in order to develop new and scientific farming methods; now a municipal zoo
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Fort Pitt
An archaeological site containining the remains of two Hudson's Bay Companyforts; the second fort was burned during the North-West Rebellion by Big BearÕs followers after the North West Mounted Police had withdrawn to Battleford
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Cypress Hills Massacre
The site where American traders attacked a Nakoda camp and killed a number of inhabitants; one of the first major tests of Canada's law enforcement policies in Western Canada
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College Building
The centrepiece of the best grouping of Collegiate Gothic university buildings in Canada, surrounding a grassy oval known as "The Bowl"; the earliest and most important building on the University of Saskatchewan campus
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Buffalo Pound Provincial Park
Buffalo Pound Provincial Park is a Saskatchewan Provincial Park located in southern Saskatchewan about 25Êkm northeast of the city of Moose Jaw.
The park centres around Buffalo Pound Lake, a prairie lake formed from glaciation about 10,000 years ago.
Seasonal recreation activities include swimming (two public beaches and a pool), camping, fishing, mini-golf, biking, hiking, and access to the Trans-Canada Trail. The park also features a captive herd of bison, along with the Nicolle Flats Marsh where a variety of wildlife can be observed. There is also a trout pond, known as Buffalo Pond, which is stocked with rainbow trout,…0 votes -
Holy Trinity Church
Holy Trinity Church is a Provincial Historic Site and a Provincial Heritage Property situated prominently on the banks of the Churchill River in the northern community of Stanley Mission. The property features a grand cathedral with a tall central nave and elaborate spire built in a Gothic Revival style that was constructed between 1854 and 1860.
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Humboldt Post Office
The historic Humboldt Post Office building is located at the corner of Main Street and 6th Avenue in Humboldt, Saskatchewan, Canada. The building is 2 1/2 storeys with a 4 storey bell and clock tower. Designed by the chief architect of the Department of Public Works, David Ewart, the building is the last surviving of a series of very similar buildings under a common theme on the prairies.[1] The building originally housed a post office, customs, and weights and measures office on the ground floor; customs and inland revenue offices and an office for the commanding officer of the Royal…
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