I started traveling extensively in Canada during the Covid-19 pandemic when I got bored and looked at where the government would permit me to travel on a map. Turns out, Ontario is the largest of the provinces by population and the second-largest, Quebec, is right next doors. Before the lockdown Read more
At first, when I looked up the place in Cleveland I thought it would be a museum on maritime science and weather patterns of the Great Lakes, like the National Museum of the Great Lakes. But I was wrong. It’s just a family-oriented science museum located on the Great Lakes. Read more
Being the richest man in Oshawa, McLaughlin funded many community services, including this gallery. It has one piece of art from each of the Group of Seven, a Norval Morisseau, and many, many contemporary works of art that bring in immigrant perspectives of Canada. Like the Ottawa Art Gallery, many Read more
Every April, Vancouver’s streets bloom with cherry blossoms that came from Japan as a gift in honour of Japanese Canadians who joined the Canadian army in the First World War. The city has turned this natural phenomenon into an annual festival to cash in on its cultural ties with the Read more
It’s an aged museum with exhibits that feel like they were handed down from the US. In just the weather gallery alone, distances are measured in miles, videos are from NOAA, and exhibits come from Colorado even though the museum is in Regina. However, it is informative in the sense Read more
The University of Regina is a lot newer than the University of Saskatchewan. It used to be the same university until it spun off in 1974. With a lot of the buildings being newer, there are seamless transitions from building to building with many of them built in the 1990s. Read more
Walter Scott, the first premier of Saskatchewan, hosted a competition for the legislative building to be built in Regina in 1905. The design by the Maxwell Brothers from Montreal was chosen and the building was completed in 1912. It was initially designed to be constructed with red brick before Scott Read more
Built in 1891 for the Lieutenant Governor of the North West Territories, the man in charge only lived in Regina until the 1960s when it was turned into a school for two decades and then a veterans’ rehabilitation centre for another decade before being bought back by the province for Read more
Admission is by donation, but I’d rather buy something from the gift shop than give a non tax deductible donation to the museum. Home to the largest T-rex in the world, the Royal Saskatchewan Museum in Regina is one of the best natural history museums in the country. My theory Read more
The federal police force from all over the country comes here to train. It was formed as the North-West Mounted Police in 1873 when prime minister John A. Macdonald wanted to settle the west after the Hudson’s Bay Company. The museum located in this Depot Division in Regina is tied Read more