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Upper Canada Village
Little Morrisburg is known far and wide for its quality historic site, Upper Canada Village . Costume-clad interpreters animate this re-created town by emulating life in the 1860s. Plan to spend three or four hours at the village – that will give you plenty of time to check out the
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Roedde House Museum
For a glimpse of what the West End looked like before the apartment blocks arrived, drop by this handsome 1893 Queen Anne–style mansion, now a lovingly preserved museum. Designed by infamous British Columbia (BC) architect Francis Rattenbury, the house is packed with antiques and t
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Parc de la Chute Montmorency
This waterfall is right by the Taschereau Bridge on the way to Île d’Orléans and is worth a stop if you’re in the area. It’s 83m high, topping Niagara Falls by about 30m, though it’s not nearly as wide. What’s cool is walking over the falls on the suspension bridge to see (and hear
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Historic Properties
The Historic Properties are a group of restored buildings on Upper Water St, built between 1800 and 1905. Originally designed as huge warehouses for easy storage of goods and cargo, they now house boutiques, restaurants and bars and are connected by waterfront boardwalks. Artisans,
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West 4th Avenue
This strollable smorgasbord of stores and restaurants may have your credit cards whimpering for mercy after a couple of hours. Since Kits is now a bit of a middle-class utopia. Shops that once sold cheap groceries are now more likely to be hawking designer yoga gear, hundred-dollar
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Olympic Village
Built as the home for 2800 athletes during the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, this glassy waterfront development became the citys newest neighborhood once the sporting-types went home. Its taken a while to make the area feel like a community, but shops and restaurants –
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Chapelle Notre
Known as the Sailors’ Church, this enchanting chapel derives its name from the sailors who left behind votive lamps in the shapes of ships in thanksgiving for safe passage. The restored interior has stained-glass windows and paintings depicting key moments in the life of the Virgin
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Capilano River Hatchery
Just 2km north of Capilano Suspension Bridge, this government-run fish farm works to protect coho, chinook and steelhead salmon stocks. Visit from July to November and youll likely catch adult salmon swimming through fish ladders past the rapids in a heroic effort to reach their sp
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Calgary Zoo
More than 1,000 animals from around the world, many in enclosures simulating their natural habitats, make Calgarys zoo one of the top rated in North America and almost on a par with Torontos. Besides the animals, the zoo has a Botanical Garden , with changing garden displays, a tr
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Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art
Showcasing carvings, paintings and jewelry from Canadas most revered Haida artist, this tranquil gallery is lined with fascinating and exquisite works – plus handy touch-screens to tell you all about them. The space centres on the Great Hall, where theres often a carver at work. Be
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Anglican Cathedral of St John the Baptist
Serving Canadas oldest parish (1699), the Anglican cathedral is one of the finest examples of ecclesiastical Gothic architecture in North America. Although originally built in the 1830s, all but its exterior walls were reduced to ashes by the Great Fire of 1892. It was rebuilt in 1
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Hôtel de Ville
Montréal’s handsome City Hall was built between 1872 and 1878, then rebuilt after a fire in 1926. Far from being a humdrum administrative center, it’s actually steeped in local lore. Most famously, it’s where French leader Charles de Gaulle took to the balcony in 1967 and yelled to
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Cathédrale Christ Church
Montréal’s first Anglican bishop had this cathedral built (modeled on a church in Salisbury, England) and it was completed in 1859. The church was the talk of the town in the late 1980s when it allowed a shopping center, the Promenades de la Cathédrale , to be built underneath it.
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Ministers Island
This picturesque tidal island was once used as a summer retreat by William Cornelius Van Horne, builder of the Canadian Pacific Railway and one of Canadas wealthiest men. Covenhoven , his splendid 50-room Edwardian cottage, is now open to visitors – check out the towerlike stone ba
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North Saskatchewan River Valley
Edmonton has more designated urban parkland than any other city in North America, most of it contained within an interconnected riverside green belt that effectively cuts the metropolis in half. The green zone is flecked with lakes, bridges, wild areas, golf courses, ravines and ap
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Naikoon Provincial Park
Much of the islands northeastern side is devoted to the beautiful 726-sq-km Naikoon Provincial Park, which combines sand dunes and low sphagnum bogs, surrounded by stunted and gnarled lodgepole pine, and red and yellow cedar. The beaches on the north coast feature strong winds, pou
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West Edmonton Mall
Kitsch lovers who cant afford the trip to Vegas will have a field day in West Edmonton Mall, while those less enamored by plastic plants and phony re-creations of 15th-century galleons will hate it. Not content to simply be a shopping mall, Edmontons urban behemoth has the worlds
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Vancouver Police Museum
Illuminating the crime-and-vice-addled history of the region, this quirky museum is lined with confiscated weapons and counterfeit currency. It also has a former mortuary room where the walls are studded with preserved slivers of human tissue – spot the bullet-damaged brain slices.
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Ucluelet Aquarium
Replacing the tiny waterfront shack that stood nearby, the excellent Ucluelet Aquarium opened this much larger facility in 2012. Retaining key approaches from the old place, the kid-luring touch tanks are still here, and marine critters are local and most are on a catch-and-release
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Steam Clock
Halfway along Water St, this oddly popular tourist magnet lures the cameras with its tooting steam whistle. Built in 1977, the clocks mechanism is actually driven by electricity; only the pipes on top are fueled by steam (reveal it to the patiently waiting tourists and you might ca
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