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A white wooden building with green trim, featuring a wraparound porch, a balcony, and a distinctive octagonal turret, with a blue sign hanging from the porch.

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A beige, multi-story institutional building with large arched windows and vertical banners displaying natural history imagery (fossils, plants) and French text, situated next to a street with cars.

Sherbrooke, Quebec

Sherbrooke Nature And Science Museum

Natural history museum in Sherbroque, Quebec
A dirt trail winds up a grassy, rocky hill towards a white wooden fence and viewing platform at the summit.

St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador

Signal Hill National Historic Site

Free

A white wooden lighthouse with a red roof stands on a grassy slope next to a body of water with red soil banks and a forested shoreline in the background.

Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island

Skmaqn—Port-la-Joye—Fort Amherst National Historic Site

First European settlement site in PEI
A white, dome-shaped church with a tall, slender spire topped by a cross, situated in a barren, rocky landscape with other buildings in the background.

Iqaluit, Nunavut

St. Jude's Cathedral (Iqaluit)

Arctic Anglican cathedral in Iqaluit, Nunavut
The image shows an outdoor street scene with food kiosks, including a "BeaverTails" stand and a blue "Hot N' Fries" cart, situated in front of brick buildings and a tall telecommunications tower bearing a "Bell Media" sign.

Ottawa, Ontario

ByWard Market

Free

A close-up, eye-level photograph of a row of classical stone busts (statues of heads) on pedestals, with a white information panel visible on the far right.

Toronto, Ontario

Royal Ontario Museum (ROM)

Canada's largest museum with 18 million objects
A high-angle view of a terraced botanical garden featuring winding stone pathways, vibrant flowerbeds in yellow, red, and white, manicured hedges, and a tall brick chimney visible in the background forest.

Victoria, British Columbia

Butchart Gardens
A large stone church with a prominent central steeple and a smaller rear steeple, set against a blue sky with a road and other buildings in the foreground.

Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia

Cheticamp
A low-angle street view of historic brick buildings and cobblestones with the distinctive Vancouver Lookout tower rising in the background.

Vancouver, British Columbia

Gastown

Free

Two large wooden statues of seated biblical figures (Ezekiel and Jeremiah) inside a church, with a bilingual "S.V.P. NE TOUCHEZ PAS / PLEASE DON'T TOUCH" sign between them.

Montreal, Quebec

Notre-Dame Basilica

From $14

A modern multi-story building with a glass and metal facade, featuring large vertical banners on the left side and a prominent "AGH" sign on the roof.

Hamilton, Ontario

Art Gallery of Hamilton
A wooden palisade fort with a teepee inside, set in a grassy field with yellow wildflowers in the foreground and a large steel railway trestle bridge spanning the background.

Lethbridge, Alberta

Fort Whoop-Up

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