Best places: Historical place museums in Canada

Cold War museum in a massive underground bunker featuring military artifacts, exhibits & events.

Roosevelt's former summer home-turned-museum amid an expansive seaside nature park with trails.

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

Living-history museum featuring a reconstructed circa-19th-century fur trading post with actors.

👍👍 A spectacular lighthouse that shows the history of Newfoundland and it’s rugged coastline. Counting on the time of year you visit you may even get lucky enough to see Puffins on the rocks nesting.

40+ historical buildings, costumed staff & demonstrations depicting rural Canadian life in 1866.

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

Museum & visitor centre in a 19th-century lighthouse, offering exhibits & guided walks.

👍👍 I came to The Bellevue Mine with a couple of coworkers. We work at the Atlas Coal Mine near Drumheller. As heritage interpreters, we thought we knew all there was to know about coal mining. Boy were we wrong. We learned so much on this tour and how different coal mining was in the Crowsnest Pass com...

Museum housing exhibits relating to the first infantry regiment established in Canada.

Exhibits about Acadian history & gardens with a church & a statue of Longfellow heroine Evangeline.

👍👍 This was neat to drive across the bar and see the Van Horne Estate's buildings. We went back in the evening to take pictures with the tide up. We didn't have time to do any trails. If I'm ever back this way I'll cross as soon as possible to have time to hike some trails.

👍👍 There are so much more going on at this location then just a scenic waterfall. There’s zip lining and playgrounds for the children, museums, rock climbing walls, and a splash pad. There is ample parking as well. Admission fee to see the waterfalls is $10 per adult. The trails are well-maintained how...

👍👍 Favourite place to just hang out and play with the ducks. We drive to Manotick and always visit Watson’s Mill! Definitely check this place out!

👍👍 Best all time barbershop ever! been coming to peter’s for over 10 years and he always takes care of me. professional courteous and treats me like one of the family! Highly recommended barbershop. an asset to his neighborhood of weston ontario. Peter is a true barber and proud Canadian!!!!

Snug, quaint & historic home that inspired the book 'Anne of Green Gables' & features tours.

Historic battleground site with remnants of an 18th-century fort & a museum on expansive grounds.

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

Tours of a replica warship, schooner & cargo vessel on the site of a 19th-century British garrison.

Living museum with hands-on ranching skills, heritage building walks & horse-drawn wagon rides.