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Canadian Club Brands Centre
Canadian Club has been sluicing here (formerly known as the Walkerville Distillery) since 1858. One-hour tours (noon, 2pm and 4pm) explore the history of the ornate Italiante building, the distilling process and offer a taste.
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Gaelic College of Celtic Arts & Crafts
At the end of St Anns Bay, the college teaches Scottish Gaelic, bagpipe playing, Highland dancing, weaving and more. The colleges Great Hall of the Clans Museum traces Celtic history from ancient times to the Highland clearances.
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Crombie Art Gallery
In the personal residence of the founder of the Sobeys supermarket chain, this private gallery has an excellent collection of 19th- and early-20th-century Canadian art, including works by Cornelius Krieghoff and the Group of Seven.
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Mallard Cottage
In Quidi Vidi youll find the oldest cottage in North America, Mallard Cottage, which dates from the 1750s and is a national heritage site. At press time it was being converted into a restaurant serving Newfoundland comfort foods.
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Westmount City Hall
The faux medieval towers of Westmount City Hall come as a surprise after the skyscrapers of downtown. This Tudor gatehouse in rough-hewn stone looks like something from an English period drama. A lawn-bowling green lies in the rear.
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Macaulay & Co Fine Art
One of the areas top smaller galleries represents a stable of brilliant, newer artists that may be the next big thing. Look out for eye-popping photography plus First Nations works combing traditional and startlingly modern themes.
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MacKenzie Art Gallery
This gallery features a permanent outdoor sculpture garden, grazed by Joe Fafards famed bronzed cows, and keeps things fresh with rotating and special exhibitions primarily concerned with historical and contemporary Canadian art.
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Royal St Johns Regatta Museum
Inland from the village, Quidi Vidi Lake is the site of the city-stopping St Johns Regatta. The Royal St Johns Regatta Museum is on the second floor of the boathouse. Opening hours vary. A popular walking trail leads around the lake.
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Danceland
This amazing Dance Hall lives in a vortex immune to the passing of time. Locals have been treading the boards here for over 80 years, and they tell us Elvis, Buddy Holly, Glen Miller and Duke Ellington all played here during its heyday.
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Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre
This place focuses on Beringia, a mostly ice-free area that encompassed the Yukon, Alaska and eastern Siberia during the last ice age. Engaging exhibits re-create the era, right down to the actual skeleton of a 3m-long giant ground sloth.
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Dänojà Zho Cultural Centre
Inside this impressive riverfront wood building there are displays and interpretative talks on the Trondëk Hwëchin (River People) First Nations. The collection includes traditional artifacts and a re-creation of a 19th-century fishing camp.
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Winsor Gallery
Large-format contemporary photography is a specialty at this expansive, double-room space. Each room usually runs its own exhibition and recent shows have included works by local popular artists such as Attila Richard Lukacs and Brian Howell.
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West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative
Though many Inuit communities now generate world-class artworks, Cape Dorsets remain the most revered. This cooperative has stonecutting and print workshops where you can watch artists work. The most activity occurs from September to May.
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Rushtons Beach
Small cottages crowd around Rushtons Beach, just east of Tatamagouche in Brule. Its worth a visit to look for seals (turn left at the end of the boardwalk and walk toward the end of the beach) and birdlife in the adjoining salt marsh.
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Quidi Vidi Battery
Built in 1762 and still symbolically guarding the bay from up the hill is Quidi Vidi Battery. Built by the French after they took St Johns, the battery was quickly claimed by the British and remained in military service into the 1800s.
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Lucy Maud Montgomery Heritage Museum
The building that houses this museum is believed to be the home of Lucy Mauds grandfather and theres a lot of Anne paraphernalia. Take a guided tour; theres a guarantee that if youre not absolutely fascinated, you dont pay the admission.
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Wards Island
At the western end of Wards Island is an 18-hole Frisbee Golf Course . An old-fashioned boardwalk runs the length of the south shore of the island, passing the back gate of the year-round Rectory Cafe with its delightful lakeside patio.
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Moulin Fleming
This restored five-story windmill was built for a Scottish merchant in 1816, and a multimedia exhibit inside covers its two centuries of history. It’s a nice diversion if you’re out here visiting the other Lachine sites, and a great photo op.
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Penticton Museum
Inside the library, the Penticton Museum has delightfully eclectic displays, including the de-rigueur natural-history exhibit with stuffed animals and birds, plus everything youd want to know about the juicy fruits of the Peach Festival .
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St Dunstans Basilica
Rising from the ashes of a 1913 fire, the three towering stone spires of this neo-Gothic basilica are now a Charlottetown landmark. The marble floors, Italianate carvings and decoratively embossed ribbed ceiling are surprisingly ornate.
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