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Qaummaarviit Territorial Park
This tiny bay island is a 12km boat ride from Iqaluit and preserves a 750-year-old Inuit (Thule) winter camp. You can see well-preserved sod houses and a grave site. Its a great half-day trip: to get there, contact Iqaluit outfitters.
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Port Dover Harbour Museum
The Port Dover Harbour Museum is a reconstructed fishing shack focusing on the Lake Erie fishing industry and the exploits of local sea-dog Captain Alexander McNeilledge (‘Wear no specks, use no tobacco, take a wee dram as necessary’).
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Planet Bee
Planet Bee is a working honey farm where you can learn all the sweet secrets of the golden nectar and see a working hive up close. Follow 25th Ave west, turn north briefly on 41st St, then go west on Bella Vista Rd and watch for signs.
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Waterloo Region Museum
Waterloos newest attraction is this primary-colored local history museum set on 24 hectares. Its the gateway to the Doon Heritage Crossroads , a recreated pioneer settlement where costumed volunteers do their best to help you time-travel.
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Old Log Church
The only log-cabin-style cathedral in the world is a 1900 downtown gem. Displays include the compelling story of Rev Isaac Stringer, who boiled and ate his boots while lost in the wilderness for 51 days. Fittingly, all thats left is his sole.
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Morants Curve Viewpoint
Pullover and viewpoint on the Bow Valley Pkwy at a site much favored by the Canadian Pacific Railway and National Geographic photographer Nicholas Morant (1910–99), whose images helped publicize Banff during its early days as a national park.
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Musée les Voitures dEau
The antique-shop-like Musée les Voitures dEau tells the islands nautical history through boat engines, buoys, anchors, plodding voiceovers and cheery explanations of the perils of the St Lawrence. There are also boats you can climb on.
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Elora Quarry Conservation Area
A short walk east of Elora are the possibly bottomless waters and 12m limestone cliffs of the Elora Quarry Conservation Area – a superb swimming hole. Hormone-fueled teens plummet from great heights, despite signs suggesting they dont.
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Palestre Nationale
The neobaroque National Palace (1918) was formerly a sports center for local youth, drawing crowds to amateur athletic events in the 1980s. Note the horn-of-plenty motif above the portico. It now houses the university dance troupe Agora de la Danse .
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Waterfront Park
Waterfront Park offers a stunning view of the tidal mudflats, Minas Basin and the red cliffs of Cape Blomidon. Displays explain the tides, dikes, flora and fauna, and history of the area. This is an easy spot to start a walk or cycle on top of the dikes.
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Yukon Transportation Museum
Find out what the Alaska Hwy was really like back in the day; lets just say mud was a dirty word. Exhibits cover planes, trains and dogsleds. The museum is near the Beringia Centre. Look for the iconic DC-3 weather vane (yes, it spins!) out front.
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Thunder Bay Art Gallery
Thunder Bays premier gallery offers an eclectic assortment of contemporary art, including Aboriginal artists. The use of natural imagery, haunting masks and scorching primary colors will leave lasting impressions on visitors. Its free on Wednesdays.
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Grande Hermine Park
From Wabush, 39km east on Rte 500 is Grande Hermine Park, which has a beach and some fine scenery. The Menihek hiking trail (15km) goes through wooded areas with waterfalls and open tundra. Outfitters can take anglers to excellent fishing waters.
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Maison Drouin
This old house was built in 1730 and is one of the most fascinating stops on the island as it was never modernized (ie no electricity or running water) even though it was inhabited until 1984. Guides in period dress give tours of the house in summer.
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Westmount Square
Westmount Square , designed by Bauhaus architect Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe, is a modern complex with office towers, terrace and shopping concourse that opened in 1967. It has a variety of boutiques, gift shops and art galleries, plus a food court.
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Old Loyalist Burial Ground
This Loyalist cemetery, dating back to 1784, is an atmospheric, thought-provoking history lesson of its own, revealing large families and kids dying tragically young. The Loyalists arrived from the 13 colonies after the American Revolution of 1776.
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Ska
Ska-Nah-Doht Iroquoian Village & Museum, 32km west of London, re-creates a 1000-year-old Iroquois longhouse community. Village structures are encircled by a maze; the museum contains artifacts thousands of years old and recounts the areas history.
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St Bernard Church
St Bernard is known for its church, a huge granite structure built by locals who added one row of blocks each year between 1910 and 1942. It has incredible acoustics, which are showcased each summer through the Musique St-Bernard concert series.
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Point Pelee National Park
About 13km southeast of Leamington, this well-loved national park features nature trails, a marsh boardwalk, forests and lovely sandy beaches within the park. The fall migration of monarch butterflies is a spectacle of swirling black and orange.
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Ottawa Locks
The series of steep, steplike locks, between the Château Laurier and Parliament Hill, marks the north end of the 200km Rideau Canal which flows all the way down to Kingston. Colonel By, the canals visionary engineer, set up headquarters here in 1826.
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