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Peace Point Road
Between Fort Smith and Peace Point is Salt River Day-Use Area , home to a snake hibernaculum (they only have group sex in late April), and the trailhead for excellent day hikes to salt flats and sinkholes. About 60km from Fort Smith, at popular Pine Lake Campground , you can bask
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Railway Heritage Centre
The center has two things going on. One is a museum stuffed with shipwreck artifacts. Its showpiece is the astrolabe, a striking brass navigational instrument made in Portugal in 1628. The device is in remarkable condition and is one of only about three dozen that exist in the worl
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Marble Canyon
In northern Kootenay, several kilometers southwest of the Stanley Glacier trailhead, the popular trail around Marble Canyon has been reincarnated since the 2003 fire. The easy 1.6km (1-mile) loop crosses Tokumm Creek and offers great views down into the plunging limestone canyon, s
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Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
Over 7000 works belong to the collection exhibited here in the Raymond Moriyama–designed galleries, specializing in Inuit and Canadian art. The Donald Forster Sculpture Park is the largest at a public gallery in Canada and offers 1 hectare to explore: gravity-defying cubes, beached
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Grenfell Museum
Admission to the Grenfell Historic Properties also includes Grenfells beautiful mansion, now the Grenfell Museum. Its behind the hospital, about a five-minute walk from the waterfront. Dyed burlap walls and antique furnishings envelop memorabilia, including a polar bear rug and, if
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Dundurn Castle
Delightful and unexpected, this column-fronted, 36-room mansion once belonged to Sir Allan Napier McNab, Canadian prime minister from 1854 to 1856. It sits on a cliff overlooking the harbor amid lovely chestnut-studded grounds and is furnished in mid-19th-century style. Castle admi
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Discovery Pier
Since locals claim the town as the Salmon Capital of the World, you should wet your line off the downtown Discovery Pier or just stroll along with the crowds and see what everyone else has caught. Much easier than catching your own lunch, you can buy fish and chips (and ice cream)
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Basilique Ste
The village of Ste-Anne-de-Beaupré is known for the Goliath-sized Basilique Ste-Anne-de-Beaupré and its role as a shrine. Churches were built at this location since the mid-1600s but were frequently destroyed by fire. The awe-inspiring basilica of today was constructed after a deva
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Banff Park Museum
Occupying an old wooden Canadian Pacific Railway building dating from 1903, this museum is a national historic site. Its exhibits – a taxidermic collection of animals found in the park, including grizzly and black bears, plus a tree carved with graffiti dating from 1841 – have chan
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Apex
Five kilometers from downtown, Apex is now Iqaluits beach suburb, but was where nomadic Inuit began to settle when modern Iqaluit was an airbase. On the shore is the photogenic Hudson Bay Trading Post complex. Its an interesting hike along the hilly waterfront from downtown. At low
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Canada Aviation and Space Museum
With nearly 120 aircraft housed in this mammoth steel hangar about 5km northeast of downtown, you could be forgiven for thinking you were at the airport. Wander through the warehouse, try the flight simulator and get up close and personal with colorful planes ranging from the Silve
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Mackenzie King Estate
In the Gatineau Park is the Mackenzie King Estate , the summer estate of William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada’s prime minister in the 1920s, late 1930s and early 1940s. A capable speaker, quirky King was known for his gregarious nature; he even talked to his dead dog and deceased mo
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Musée Shaputuan
This is the North Shores best museum on aboriginal culture. The atmospheric circular exhibition hall, divided into four sections symbolizing the seasons, follows the Innu (Montagnais) people as they hunt caribou or navigate the treacherous spring rivers. Photography, traditional cl
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Musée Maritime
Before or after boarding the ferry in St-Joseph-de-la-Rive, drop into Musée Maritime. It details the schooner-building history of a region where it was common to see 20 different types of commercial boat on the St Lawrence. Visitors can climb aboard some beauties in the shipyard. T
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Six Nations of the Grand River Territory
Southeast of Brantford is Six Nations of the Grand River Territory – the six nations being Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca and Tuscarora – and the village of Ohsweken , a well-known aboriginal community. Established in the late 18th century, the territory gives visitors a
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Ouimet Canyon
Ouimet Canyon , just 12km off the highway, is a treacherous crevasse scoured out by ice and wind during the last Ice Age. A microclimate has formed at the bottom, 150m below, which supports a small collection of rare arctic-alpine plants. A 1km loop hugs the jagged bluffs offering
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Parisian Laundry
A former industrial laundry turned monster (15,000-sq-ft) gallery, this space is worth a trip for the old building itself even if you’re not a fan of contemporary art. Recent exhibitions have included works by New York conceptual artist Adam Pendleton and Québec sculptor Valérie Bl
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Domaine de Grand Pré
A great destination winery and one of the best known in the province, it has a delicious spicy muscat and a nice sparkling Champlain Brut. The tours take about 45 minutes or you can do tastings and stroll through the vines by yourself. Le Caveau Restaurant has been named one of the
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Fort Malden National Historic Site
This British fort was built on earthwork embankments along the river in 1840. Beginning with the arrival of the fur traders, the area saw a lot of friction between the French, First Nations and English and, later, the Americans. Here, during the War of 1812, General Brock (together
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Horseshoe Lake
This idyllic blue-green horseshoe-shaped lake just off the Icefields Pkwy is missed by many visitors, making a stopover here all the more alluring. A choice spot for a bracing summer swim or a short stroll around the perimeter, the lake is surrounded by steep cliffs and is hence fr
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