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The Owens Art Gallery opened in 1895 on the campus of Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick.
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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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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 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 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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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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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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Fort William Historical Park in Thunder Bay recreates Fort William as it was in 1815, when it served as the North West Company’s inland headquarters in the fur trade.
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Photo: Doug Coldwell · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 3.0 · Credit & context
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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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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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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