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
The city of yesterday still exists today. Dusty roads are flanked by empty industrial buildings and warehouses built in the mid-20th century with old dusty cars parked haphazardly on the broken sidewalk. The old Sears building with the 1-800-26-SEARS phone number emblazoned on the wall and a former Lowe’s box Read more
The best way to describe it would be an indoor Main Street from Disneyland in Saskatoon, but you actually get to see educational displays instead of being forced to spend money in gift shops. the fully-furnished interiors are informative, the push-button operated conversations between fictitious characters are educational, and the Read more
The second largest city in Saskatchewan is connected to the provincial capital Regina via the Louis Riel Trail, named after the Manitoba politician that was executed for treason after his defeat in the North-West Rebellion. The native prairie people have lived here for over 6,000 years and the federal government Read more
It’s a fun place to visit and is open even during public holidays. There are three tours available, the iconic prohibition tour, a Cold War-era bunker tour, and early Chinese immigration. Each tour lasts about an hour and there are discounts for doing multiple tours. I recommend only doing the Read more
Every October, Upper Canada Village in Morrisburg closes for a whole month for regular visits only to open in the evenings for lit pumpkins. About 7,000 handcrafted pumpkins are put together for a colourful light show with huge pumpkin sculptures. The pathway is a kilometre long and takes about 30 Read more
I’ve been to aviation museums in Ontario to the likes of Trenton and Ottawa, and those are mighty impressive. Ones in Quebec, even in major cities like Montreal and Quebec City, are much smaller. The Air Defence Museum in Bagotville, 20 minutes east of Saguenay, is a little different. Bagotville Read more
It was hot. Although the observatory said the temperature hovered around 16 to 20 degrees for the two days the King was in Ottawa to open Parliament, press positions were often unshaded, on concrete, with no access to water or toilets outside the secured area. If we left the secured Read more
History. Nature. Science. These three words are the calling card for Winnipeg‘s Manitoba Museum. It is the province’s most comprehensive museum with multiple galleries on everything from dinosaurs to how Manitobans lived during the roaring 20s. I particularly liked the Arctic and subarctic gallery, as I did in Ottawa‘s Museum Read more