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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 Chinese Canadian Museum opened on July 1, 2023, in the historic Wing Sang building in Vancouver’s Chinatown. The Province of British Columbia had committed to establishing it in 2017.
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The Musée d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul, in Charlevoix, Quebec, received museum status from Quebec’s Ministère de la Culture in 2008, when the collections of the Symposium and the Centre d’art were passed to it.
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The North Atlantic Aviation Museum in Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador, interprets the town’s aviation history. Its Safe Haven exhibit tells how Gander and neighbouring communities responded after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
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The Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada broke ground on a new building at Winnipeg James A. Richardson International Airport in spring 2020, and the new museum opened to the public in 2022.
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The Polygon Gallery in North Vancouver is a public gallery run by the British Columbia Photography and Media Arts Society. Its building received a Governor General’s Medal in Architecture in 2020.
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The Ottawa Art Gallery explores the community’s history and development through art. Its expanded building, designed by KPMB and Régis Côté Architects, opened on April 28, 2018.
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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 Fashion History Museum in Cambridge, Ontario, was co-founded by Kenn Norman and Jonathan Walford. In late 2014 it was offered a lease on the old post office of the former town of Hespeler, which became its home.
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The Rooms in St. John’s opened in 2005. Its exhibitions explore the culture and history of Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Remai Modern, on the banks of the South Saskatchewan River in Saskatoon, presents and collects local and international modern and contemporary art. It succeeds the Mendel Art Gallery, which ran its program from 1964 to 2015.
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The Site historique maritime de la Pointe-au-Père, formerly the Musée de la mer, is a non-profit museum founded in 1980 near Rimouski by divers who shared a passion for the wreck of the Empress of Ireland. In 2005 it acquired the submarine Onondaga.
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The Beaty Biodiversity Museum at the University of British Columbia opened in 2010, putting UBC’s vast natural history collections on public display.
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Exporail, the Canadian Railway Museum in Saint-Constant, Quebec, was founded in 1961 by the Canadian Railroad Historical Association and opened to the public in 1965 with 25 trams, 20 steam locomotives and 5 passenger cars. In 2007 the House of Commons recognized it as the National Railway Museum.
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The Winnipeg Art Gallery opened in 1912. In 2021 it expanded with Qaumajuq, an Inuit art centre, bringing a dedicated space for Inuit art into its Winnipeg cultural campus.
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The Aga Khan Museum was founded in Toronto in 2014. Through collections including manuscripts, paintings, ceramics and textiles, it explores Muslim cultures and their connections with other cultures.
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The Canadian War Museum is Canada’s national museum of military history. It traces its origins to 1880, when it was mainly a collection of militia artifacts, and opened in its present building on LeBreton Flats in Ottawa on May 8, 2005.
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M.G. Vassanji was appointed Member of the Order of Canada in 2004. The appointment recognizes a writer who moved from nuclear physics into a literary career.
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Jane Urquhart was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada in 2004. The appointment recognizes a writer whose stories explore memory, love and art across different places and periods.
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Miriam Toews was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada in 2025. The appointment recognizes a novelist whose work explores human suffering and comedy.
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Kim Thúy was appointed Member of the Order of Canada in 2023. The appointment recognizes a Vietnamese-born novelist whose work explores migration and the Vietnamese diaspora.
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David Adams Richards was appointed Member of the Order of Canada in 2009. The appointment recognizes a writer whose work gives a voice to New Brunswick and the Maritimes.
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Michael Ondaatje was appointed Companion of the Order of Canada in 2016. The appointment recognizes a poet, novelist and editor whose books include The English Patient.
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Yann Martel was appointed Companion of the Order of Canada in 2021. The appointment recognizes a novelist known internationally for Life of Pi.
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Photo: Shane Lin from Seattle, WA, USA, aka 'About Malenkov in Exile' on Flickr · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 2.5 · Credit & context