-
Yarmouth County Museum
This museum, in a former church, contains five period rooms related to the sea. The ticket includes Pelton-Fuller House next door, which is filled with period artwork, glassware and furniture.
-
Muskoka Brewery
Muskoka Brewery bottles some delicious flavors including a cream ale and a couple of lagers. In summer, free taste-testing tours depart 12:30pm to 3:30pm on the half-hour Thursday to Saturday.
-
Kamloops Museum & Archives
Kamloops Museum is in a vintage building and has a suitably vintage collection of historic photographs. Come here for the scoop on river-namesake David Thompson and an entire floor dedicated to kids.
-
Dieppe Gardens
These beautiful gardens, on land once used by Detroit–Windsor ferries before the 1929 bridge and 1930 tunnel put them out of business, offer the best views of the smoke-and-mirrors Detroit skyline.
-
Centennial Museum & Information Centre
Little Chapleau (chap -loh) is the gateway to the world’s largest Crown game preserve, measuring a whopping 7000 sq km. For information, stop by the Centennial Museum & Information Centre .
-
Labrador Interpretation Centre
Officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1997, the Labrador Interpretation Centre is the provincial museum, which holds some of Labradors finest works of art. Its in North West River, via Rte 520.
-
Legislative Assembly
Nunavuts prefab parliament is no marble-columned forum, but has touches such as sealskin benches and a narwhal-tusk ceremonial mace. Local art is displayed in the foyer.
-
Shelburne County Museum
A c 1787 Loyalist house is now the Shelburne County Museum. It has a collection of Loyalist furnishings, displays on the history of the local fishery and a small collection of Mikmaw artifacts.
-
Paul Lake Provincial Park
On the often-hot summer days, the beach at Paul Lake Provincial Park beckons and you may spot falcons and coyotes. There is a 20km mountain-biking loop. Its 24km northeast of Kamloops via Hwy 5.
-
Lordly House Museum
A fine example of Georgian architecture from 1806, the Lordly House Museum has three period rooms illustrating 19th-century upper-class life and Chester history. The museum is also an artists studio.
-
Bridal Veil Falls
Just off Hwy 540 before Kagawong, theres a lovely picnic area at the top of this pretty waterfall. Walking trails lead down to the base where you can take a dip before continuing into the old town.
-
Atlantic Salmon Interpretive Centre
This handsome lodge has an in-stream aquarium, guided tours and displays devoted to the life and trials of the endangered wild Atlantic salmon, once so plentiful in provincial rivers and bays.
-
Agriculture Research Station
At the eastern end of town, the Agriculture Research Station includes a museum on the areas farming history and the apple industry in particular. Guided museum tours are offered during summer.
-
Canmore Museum & Geoscience Centre
The town’s small museum has an intriguing collection of exhibits and photographs relating to Canmore’s coal-mining history, the story of the 1988 Olympics and, more recently, the devastating 2013 floods.
-
Revelstoke Museum
Furniture and historical odds and ends, including mining, logging and railway artifacts that date back to the towns establishment in the 1880s, line the rooms. The local skiing history displays are good.
-
Musée de la Petite Maison Blanche
In the area known as the Basin is this spindly museum. Built in 1900, the house withstood water with a force equivalent to Niagara Falls in a 1996 flood that caused $16 billion of damage to Chicoutimi.
-
Founders Hall
Opened in 2001, this high-tech multimedia exhibit, housed in an old train station, swamps your senses with facts and fun about Canadas history since 1864. Its sure to entertain children and the child in you.
-
Huron Historic Gaol
Follow a creepy, prison-gray corridor into the Huron Historic Gaol , an octagonal fortress that served as the courthouse and jail for almost 130 years (and was the site of Canada’s last public hanging in 1869).
-
Sunnybrook Farm Estate Winery
Close to Niagara-on-the-Lake, Sunnybrook Farm Estate Winery specializes in unique Niagara fruit and berry wines, and brews a mean ‘hard’ cider. It’s only a little place, so tour buses usually don’t stop here.
-
Mallikjuaq Historic Park
You can hike here in 45 minutes at low tide; otherwise, hire an outfitter to take you by boat. The park features ruins of thousand-year-old pre-Inuit stone houses, hiking trails, wildlife and tundra flowers.
Total
1543 -travel
FirstPage PreviousPage NextPage LastPage CurrentPage:
34/78 20-travel/Page GoTo Page:
