The Senate of Canada was founded in 1867 with its confederation, but it is currently held in an old train station in Ottawa built in 1912 opposite the senate’s original purpose-built building. Funnily enough, the former train station is older than the 1920 Parliament Centre Block, which has been undergoing Read more
Located right across the street from the Kingston Penitentiary, Correctional Service Canada’s museum is housed inside Cedarwood, the former house of the prison warden. Entry is free. The lower level has exhibits on early forms of punishment, basically torture, for prisoners until 1969. Water boarding, locking inside a coffin, and Read more
Sharing the grounds with the Kingston General Hospital, the Museum of Health Care has the same long history as the 1830s hospital. It is the largest hospital between Toronto and Ottawa and only hospital in Canada to still be in its original building. The museum building used to be dormitories Read more
The oldest Lighthouse on Prince Edward Island is Point Prim Lighthouse built in 1845. It’s 60 feet tall and a $5 fee will let you climb up to the top. It’s 20 feet wide at the bottom by narrows to just 10 feet at the top, so extremely fat people Read more
The confederation of Canada happened in Charlottetown. In 1864, 23 representatives from the five eastern provinces excluding Newfoundland and Labrador met here to discuss forming a federal union. A competition began in the 1950s to build the Confederation Centre of the Arts and over 40 submissions were entered. In 1964, Read more
The Acadian Museum in Moncton is run by the University of Moncton. It has to be visited with forts Beauséjour and Lawrence to understand the context of the conflict between Acadian, the French, the British, and indigenous Mi’kmaq people in the mid-18th century. The experience is largely dependent on reading Read more
Andrew Carnegie donated almost all of his wealth and some of it has been used to build the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. They should have a bundle to visit all four museums but you have to buy three separate tickets instead. They even encourage timed ticketing, but how am Read more
The Andy Warhol Museum in his native Pittsburgh is under the umbrella of Carnegie’s museums. Visitors start at the top floor of the building and work their way down six floors of galleries from his early life in New York after he graduated from Carnegie Tech all the way to Read more
Dayton has the world’s largest military aviation museum. It houses over 300 aircraft across four hangars organized by time period. There are planes from the two world wars, the anti-communist wars in East Asia, the latter decades of the cold war, and experimental aircraft. The National Aviation Hall of Fame Read more
Travelers learning about the underground railroad should start here in Cincinnati before making their way up to the Susan B. Antony House in Rochester, the Windsor-Detroit river crossing, and the Chatham-Kent Black Historical Society. The slave trade existed In Africa but was made more brutal under the Europeans, who brought Read more