Best places: Heritage museums in Canada

Museum featuring dozens of Canadian military planes, plus aviation exhibits & flight simulators.

Living history venue where Captain William Ross settled with 172 disbanded soldiers in 1816.

Oceanfront park offering a historic lighthouse, trails, naturalist tours & old military structures.

Landmark site of the deadly 1903 landslide, offering a viewing platform & a facility with exhibits.

Museum with displays of historic bushplanes, aerial firefighting equipment & a flight simulator.

Museum featuring exhibits, multimedia & programs on the history of Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

👍👍 This farmhouse was owned by my grandparents for many years and where my father and his siblings were raised. I remember the original farmhouse and surrounding farm very well. The lovely building restauration and gardens must be seen!!

👍👍 Beautiful stop and attraction if you’re passing by Rimouski, worth the little stop and detour! One of Canada’s tallest lighthouse with beautiful coastal view! The Empress of Ireland museum is also worth giving it a visit, it shows all the artifacts and retells the story of the less known tragedy tha...

Former mine turned museum offering educational exhibitions & artifacts from the mining industry.

Riverfront group of historical buildings, including 19th-century canneries, boatyards & residences.

👍👍 What an awesome museum! We were visiting Grande Prairie and this museum was close by to where we were staying. It’s a gem of a place! The people working there are so friendly and welcoming, they even have scavenger hunts for the children to do which my daughter loved, next time I think I’ll grab one...

Village museum with over 25 restored 19th-century buildings, costumed interpreters & a gift shop.

Cultural complex honoring the history & artwork of First Nations people, with exhibits & events.

Museum featuring exhibits on Waterloo's history, plus the 24-acre Doon Heritage Village.

Spacious museum housing documents & objects reflecting the heritage of the Northwest Territories.

Living history museum featuring an early-1900s Russian Mennonite village, gallery & restaurant.

👍👍 Peaceful place to take a walk or go for a bike ride. History of this place is interesting, too.

👍👍 The Musee maritime du Quebec is a great experience of stepping back into the past of the art of building small wooden sailboats and sailing them on the St Lawrence along the history of the people that built them. Also the chance of walking onboard a ship of its time and seeing what life was like ab...

19th-century fur trading post offering interpretive exhibits & activities such as gold panning.