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SS Sicamous Inland Marine Museum
Back when the best way to get around inland BC was by boat, the SS Sicamous hauled passengers and freight on Okanagan Lake from 1914 to 1936. Now restored and beached, a tour of the boat is an evocative self-guided ramble.
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Cape Merry
A lone cannon behind a crumbling wall is all thats left of the battery built at Cape Merry, 2km northwest of town. Its an incredibly beautiful location in its own right and, during summer, belugas can be seen from the shore.
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SS Klondike
Carefully restored, this was one of the largest sternwheelers used on the Yukon River. Built in 1937, it made its final run upriver to Dawson in 1955 and is now a national historic site. Try not to wish it was making the run now.
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St
A mid-19th-century convent is Winnipegs oldest building and the largest oak-log construction on the continent. The museum inside focuses on the establishment of St-Boniface, the birth of the Métis nation, and the Grey Nuns 3000km journey.
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Klondike National Historic Sites
Its easy to relive the gold rush at myriad preserved and restored places. Parks Canada tries its best with limited resources. Various restored buildings such as the Palace Grand Theatre are open on a sporadic and rotating basis, usually 10am to 1pm.
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Nunatta Sunakkutaangit Museum
As well as a permanent gallery of Inuit artifacts, this friendly little museum in an old Hudsons Bay Company building has high-quality exhibitions of contemporary artists. These, plus the interesting gift shop, make this a top place to pick up local art.
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Granville Island Public Market
Granville Islands highlight is the covered Public Market, a multisensory smorgasbord of fish, cheese, fruit and bakery treats. Pick up some fixings for a picnic at nearby Vanier Park or hit the international food court (dine off-peak and youre more likely to snag a table).
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Prime Berth/Twillingate Fishing Museum
Make this your first stop. Run by an engaging fisherman, the private museum, with its imaginative and deceivingly simple concepts (a cod splitting show!), is brilliant, and fun for mature scholars and school kids alike. Its the first place you see as you cross to Twillingate.
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Assiniboine Park
Winnipegs emerald jewel, this 4.5-sq-km urban park is easily worth at least a half days frolic. Besides the top-notch zoo , there are playgrounds, gardens, a conservatory and much more. From 2014, look for the vast Journey to Churchill exhibit which explores Manitobas nature.
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Rue St
The backbone of Montréal’s francophone shopping district, Rue St-Denis is lined with hat and garment shops, uberhip record stores and terrace cafes designed to keep people from getting any work done. Summer crowds flock to the inviting bistros and bars on both sides of the street.
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Osoyoos Desert Centre
Hear the rattle of a snake and the songs of birds at the Osoyoos Desert Centre, 3km north of town, which has interpretive kiosks along raised boardwalks that meander through the dry land. The nonprofit center offers 90-minute guided tours. Special gardens focus on delights like del
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Stratus
Stratus on Niagara Stone Rd, south of Niagara-on-the-Lake, is brilliant, the first building in Canada to earn LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) certification. The design addresses complex recycling, organic, energy-efficient and indigenous concerns. Your wine c
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Manitoba Museum
Nature trips through the Subarctic, history trips into 1920s Winnipeg, cultural journeys covering the past 12,000 years – if it happened in Manitoba, its here. Amid the superb displays are a planetarium and an engaging science gallery. One exhibit shows what Churchill was like as a
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Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre
Acting as NWTs historical and cultural archive, this well-laid-out museum is pleasantly situated overlooking Frame Lake. Expertly assembled displays address natural history, European exploration, northern aviation, mining and, especially, Dene and Inuit ways. Theres a cafe with lea
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Spadina Museum
Atop the Baldwin Steps, this gracious home and its Victorian-Edwardian gardens were built in 1866 as a country estate for financier James Austin and his family. Donated to the city in 1978, it became a museum in 1984 and was recently painstakingly transformed to evoke the heady age
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Jack London Interpretive Centre
In 1898 Jack London lived in the Yukon, the setting for his most popular stories, including Call of the Wild and White Fang. At the writers cabin there are daily interpretive talks. A labor of love by historian Dick North, Dawne Mitchell and others, this place is a treasure trove o
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Guelph Civic Museum
Extensively transformed in 2012, in what was originally an 1854 sandstone convent, this attractive LEED-certified museum offers exhibitions, programs and events digging up the history of the city (named after the British royal familys ancestors, the Guelphs). The Growing Up in Guel
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Museum of Anthropology
Vancouvers best museum is studded with spectacular First Nations totem poles and breathtaking carvings - but its also teeming with artifacts from cultures around the world, from European ceramics to Cantonese opera costumes. Take one of the free daily tours for some context, but gi
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Science North
After passing through a tunnel dug deep within the 2.5-billion-year-old Canadian Shield, work your way down through the spiral of exciting hands-on activities in this fantastic museum. Wander through a living butterfly garden, stargaze in the digital planetarium or fly away on a bu
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Provincial Legislature
The seat of Ontarios Provincial Legislature resides in a fabulously ornate 1893 sandstone building, north of College St in Queens Park. For some homegrown entertainment, head for the visitors gallery when the adversarial legislative assembly is in session (Monday, Tuesday and Thurs
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