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Royal Saskatchewan Museum
The Royal provides a great insight into the people and geography that make up Saskatchewan. Three galleries focus on earth and life sciences and aboriginal history. Prairie dioramas tell the story of the native flora, fauna and cultures that lived off the harsh land. Tipis, dinosau
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Halifax Public Gardens
At the corner of Spring Garden Rd and South Park St, these are considered the finest Victorian city gardens in North America. Oldies bands perform off-key concerts in the gazebo on Sunday afternoons in summer, tai chi practitioners go through their paces, and anyone who brings chec
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International Summer Night Market
Much larger than downtowns Chinatown version, thousands of hungry locals are lured here every weekend to check out the tacky vendor stands and – more importantly – the dozens of hawker food stalls. Dont eat before arriving and you can taste-trip through steaming Malaysian, Korean,
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Bastion Square
On the old Fort Victoria site between Government and Wharf Sts, Bastion Square once held a jail, gallows and a brothel. Many of the scrubbed stone buildings are now restaurants and boutiques. You can purchase quirky handicrafts at the all-day Bastion Square Festival of the Arts, a
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Floral Showhouse
Around 1km south of Horseshoe Falls, the showhouse offers year-round floral displays and some warm respite on a chilly day. Opposite, lodged on rocks in the rapids, the Old Scow is a rusty steel barge thats been waiting to be washed over the falls since 1918 – a teetering symbol of
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Lucy Maud Montgomerys Cavendish Homestead
This is considered hallowed ground to Anne fans worldwide. Raised by her grandparents, Lucy Maud lived in this house from 1876 to 1911 and it is here that she wrote Anne of Green Gables . Youll find the old foundation of the house, many interpretive panels about Lucy Maud, a small
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Penitentiary Museum
The ‘correctional service’ is what Canadian bureaucrats call the nation’s jail system, and this museum is a good way to enter a prison system without stealing a car. The museum, across from the actual penitentiary, has a fascinating collection of weapons and tools confiscated from
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Wychwood Park
Formerly a gated artists colony, Wychwood Park, established in the late 19th century, showcases some of Torontos most beautiful and fascinating heritage architecture. Its a great place for a stroll. Note that Wychwood is an actual residential community where people go about their d
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Museum of Ontario Archaeology
An educational and research facility affiliated with the University of Western Ontario, the Museum of Ontario Archaeology displays materials and artifacts spanning 11,000 years of aboriginal history in Ontario. Next door is the Lawson site, an active excavation of a 500-year-old pr
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Granby Zoo
The town of Granby is known far and wide in Québec as the home of this zoo, with its 1000-plus animals including reptiles, gorillas and kangaroos. One of the most popular spots is at the bottom of the hippopotamus pool, where you can watch hippos lumber from the ground before they
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Government House
Within the sprawling gardens of Victoria Park is Government House. This striking colonial mansion, with its grand hall, Palladian window and Doric columns, has been home to PEIs lieutenant governors since 1835. In 2003 the Hon JL Bernard broke with an almost 170-year-old tradition
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Domaine Pinnacle
Award-winning Domaine Pinnacle, the worlds largest ice-cider producer, sits among century-old orchards just outside of Frelighsburg, 1¼ hours southeast of Montréal. Its cidre de glace is made from apples which are allowed to stay on the tree long after the first frost, then pressed
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Anne of Green Gables Museum
Surrounded by a luscious 44-hectare property, this is the charming home Lucy Maud liked to call Silver Bush. It was always dear to her and she chose the parlor for her 1911 wedding. Silver Bush hosts the Anne of Green Gables Museum. It contains such items as her writing desk and au
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Art Gallery of Calgary
Calgary isnt really an art city (yet), and this aspiring gallery is more an exhibition space than a weighty portfolio of art. Indeed, the Art Gallery of Calgary has no permanent collection like Vancouver or Edmonton, meaning youll have to rely on getting lucky with a decent tempora
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Parc du Portugal
This quaint little park is dedicated to Portuguese immigrants and their community, founded in Montréal in 1953. At the rear of the park, next to the little summer pavilion, a plaque commemorates the arrival of Portuguese immigrants in search of a new life. The gates and fountain ar
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Bishops University
If youre interested in scholarly pursuits, head 5km south (or catch bus 2 or 11) to Lennoxville to see the Anglican Bishops University, founded in 1843 and modeled after Oxford and Cambridge in England. The campuss architectural highlight is St Marks Chapel , richly decorated with
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Whitehorse Fishway
Stare down a salmon at the Whitehorse Fishway, a 366m wooden fish ladder (the worlds longest) past the hydroelectric plant south of town. Large viewing windows let you see chinook salmon swim past starting in late July (before that its grayling). The fishway is easily reached on fo
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Rue Ste
Lively Rue Ste-Catherine Ouest is one endless orgy of shops, restaurants, bars and cafes on the hyperactive stretch between Rue Crescent and Rue St-Urbain. Shopping malls, department stores and multiplex cinemas are sprinkled along the way. Shoppers flood the streets on weekends, s
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Touchstones Nelson
Once a baronial old city hall (1902), an enormous renovation transformed it into Touchstones Nelson, a museum of local history and art. Every month there are new exhibitions, many of which celebrate local artists. The history displays are engaging and interactive, banishing images
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Parc du Bassin Bonsecours
Perched over the river, the Parc du Bassin Bonsecours is a grassy expanse enclosed by a waterway and crisscrossed with footbridges. In summer you can rent paddleboats or remote-control model sailboats; in winter the ice-skaters take over at the Patinoire . There’s a well-placed bis
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