The paper mill at Saguenay is the oldest one in Quebec. Opened in 1896, it produced wood pulp for newspapers, like how the mill in Trois-Rivières supplied for the New York Times. The mill reached its peak in 1910 when it was renown for its high pulp quality, it closed Read more…
The Naval Museum of Quebec is only open during summer and run by the local detachment of the Royal Canadian Navy Reserve. All of the stories told in the museum are of individual sailors during the Second World War. Many of the artifacts were provided by family members of veterans Read more…
The Museum of Civilization was designed by Quebec architect Moshe Sadie, who also designed Habitat 67 in Montreal and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Quebec. The only downside to the design is the lack of parking in the museum building, municipal parking lots charge by the minute. I visited Read more…
Construction for the Diefenbunker started in 1959 and was completed by 1962. It was designed to house 535 personnel and equipment to function as an emergency government headquarters for 30 days in the event of a nuclear attack. The structure is four storeys deep with over 9,000 square metres of Read more…
Science North is an outstanding muti-storey zoo and science museum in Sudbury. Its buildings are connected by a skywalk with natural sunlight and a tunnel that goes through a geological fault from more than a billion years ago. The fault was discovered only when the museum was being built and Read more…
There’s a hill to the north of Toronto, on that hill sits North America’s largest castle – Casa Loma. It was completed in 1914 by Sir Henry Pellatt, a Canadian industrialist. The castle is now a museum showing off its 98 rooms and long corridors. There’s also an escape room Read more…
The often overlooked history of indigenous peoples in North America and their exploitation by Europeans is still a contentious issue in Canada. As history museums are usually conservative, a safe way to explore indigenous cultures is by visiting UBC’s Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver. They have a huge collection that Read more…
You can see Dum Dum in real life but if you try to give him gum gum the guards will intercept you faster than you can say “Easter Island”. Featured in the “Night in the Museum” movie franchise, the Natural History Museum in New York City is free to enter. Read more…
Visible from the air (and most postcards of Cambodia), the Angkor Wat and Angkor Thom are the most-visited tourist destinations in Cambodia. The sites are truly massive as they are about the same size as the modern city of Siem Reap. I don’t know the specific purpose of any of Read more…
Ottawa’s Museum of Nature is the national museum for natural history, geology, and the arctic. It is housed in the Victoria Memorial Museum building built in 1911 in Tudor Gothic style. It was originally founded by the Geological Survey of Canada in Montreal as a geological museum before being transferred Read more…