From Ellesmere Island to Pelee Island, from Tofino to St. John’s, we’ll show you where it all happened. You’ve read about all kinds of interesting people and events in Kayak. Get clicking to see where in Canada you’ll find them.

Historic Sites

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L’Anse aux Meadows
Near St. Anthony, Nfld. & Lab.
People living in this Viking settlement were the first in North America to work with metal.

Province House
Charlottetown, P.E.I.
This building is the home of Canada! It’s where plans for Confederation came together.

Carleton Martello Tower
Saint John, N.B.
It was built to defend the city from an American attack in the War of 1812, but this tower never saw battle.

Forillon National Park
Gaspé Peninsula, Qué.
See a recreation of the industry that salted and preserved cod to be shipped all over the world, as well as the Second World War site Fort Peninsula.

Lower Fort Garry
Selkirk, Man.
An important fur trade centre, this site was also a training ground for the North West Mounted Police and one of Western Canada’s first stone buildings.

Batoche
Batoche, Sask.
Peaceful now, this was the site of the final battle in the Northwest Rebellion or Resistance of Saskatchewan Métis under the leadership of Louis Riel.

Bar U Ranch
Longview, Alta.
Once there 30,000 cattle grazing this 650-square-kilometre ranch, which was also once home to the famous John Ware, known as “Alberta’s black cowboy.”

Dawson Historical Complex
Dawson, Yukon
Gold! That’s what brought thousands of prospectors here in the late 1800s.

Quttinirpaaq National Park
Ellesmere Island, Nunavut
Canada’s northernmost national park has seen native peoples travelling through for more than 3,000 years.

Auyuittuq National Park
Baffin Island, Nunavut
This park of jagged rocks and ocean has a name that means “the land that does not melt” in Inuktitut.