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The Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke was founded in 1982 by a group of art lovers. It has become the principal institution for preserving and sharing visual art in Quebec’s Eastern Townships.
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Photo: Philip Bastarache · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 3.0 · Credit & context
The Bytown Museum in Ottawa opened on June 27, 1952, in the Commissariat building, its present home. It grew out of the Women’s Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa, formed in June 1898.
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The Musée Boréalis in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, occupies the Canadian International Paper filtration plant, built in the early 1920s to pump, filter and store water for the paper mill. It tells the story of Quebec’s pulp and paper industry, designated a national historic event on August 3, 2006.
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The Musée des Abénakis, in Odanak, Quebec, is the first Indigenous museum in Quebec. Since 1965 it has worked to preserve, pass on and share the living culture of the W8banakiak (Abenaki).
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The Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery in Waterloo, Ontario, was incorporated as a non-profit organization in 1982. Construction of its gallery building began with a groundbreaking on September 16, 1989.
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The Confederation Centre Art Gallery in Charlottetown began collecting in 1964. Its holdings include research material on Robert Harris, the Charlottetown-raised painter of The Fathers of Confederation.
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Photo: Larry from Charlottetown, PEI, Canada · Photo licence: CC BY 2.0 · Credit & context
The Musée de Charlevoix in La Malbaie preserves regional heritage and folk art. Its roots include art exhibitions organized in Charlevoix from the 1930s by American artists Maud Cabot and Patrick Morgan.
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The Musée d’art de Joliette, in Joliette, Quebec, grew out of the vision of Father Wilfrid Corbeil and opened in 1976 in a building designed for art.
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Science North, a science centre serving Northern Ontario from Sudbury, opened on June 19, 1984, and was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip on October 4, 1984.
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The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria opened in 1951 in a mansion built in 1889. Its collection brings together historical and contemporary art.
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The Cosmodome in Laval, Quebec, opened in 1994. It is devoted to public education about space sciences.
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The MacBride Museum in Whitehorse opened to the public in 1952 as Yukon’s first museum, displaying its collection in the Old Telegraph Office. It was renamed in 1967 for co-founder William MacBride, in recognition of his role in preserving Yukon heritage.
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The Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 is Canada’s sixth national museum, telling the story of immigration to Canada. It is in the Pier 21 national historic site at the Halifax seaport, where nearly one million immigrants landed from 1928 to 1971.
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TELUS World of Science – Edmonton opened on July 1, 1984, as the Edmonton Space Sciences Centre. It replaced the Queen Elizabeth Planetarium, Canada’s first planetarium, which had opened in September 1960.
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The Comox Air Force Museum commemorates the history of 19 Wing Comox. Founded in 1982 within the Air Force Indoctrination School, it became an accredited Canadian Forces museum and opened to the public on September 12, 1987.
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The Canadian Football Hall of Fame was awarded to Hamilton, Ontario, in February 1963, after a successful presentation by Mayor Lloyd D. Jackson.
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Exploramer in Sainte-Anne-des-Monts, Quebec, was founded in 1995 by federal MP Charles-Eugène Marin as Explorama, mer, monts et merveilles, to introduce visitors to the wonders of the Gaspé Peninsula.
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The Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa, Ontario, was founded in 1967 after designer William Caldwell organized an exhibition of local artists’ work. Arthur Erickson designed its 1987 expansion.
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The Manitoba Children’s Museum opened in its present home at The Forks in Winnipeg on June 1, 1994. It occupies the oldest surviving train repair shop in Manitoba, built in 1889 by the Northern Pacific and Manitoba Railway Company.
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The Hangar Flight Museum, formerly the Aero Space Museum of Calgary, began in 1975 as a non-profit association caring for aviation artifacts. Since 1985 it has occupied a former Second World War British Commonwealth Air Training Plan drill hall at Calgary International Airport.
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The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery on Toronto’s waterfront opened in 1987 in a former coal-burning powerhouse built in 1926.
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TELUS Spark in Calgary traces its origins to the Calgary Centennial Planetarium, opened on July 1, 1967. The science centre opened at its present site in 2011.
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The Marine Museum of Manitoba, established in 1972, tells the story of shipping on Lake Winnipeg and the Red River from about 1850 to the present day. Visitors can board ships that sailed those waters.
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The Highland Village Museum in Iona, Nova Scotia, is a living history museum. The society behind it was founded in 1959 to interpret, preserve and promote the Scottish Gaelic language, culture and heritage of Nova Scotia.
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