Celebrated Chinese New Year and the Year of the Ram at West Edmonton Mall. This two-day event featured a marketplace plus a showcase of Chinese performers. The Edmonton Chinatown Multicultural Centre also celebrating 30 years in Edmonton and hosted the annual celebration and festival as a way to increase understanding and promote an appreciation of Chinese culture.

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The Canadian Finals Rodeo is the national championship rodeo in Canada. It is the largest indoor rodeo in Canada. The CFR and Farmfair International attracted 183,564 people over the five-day event. It took place in Edmonton.

Events:

Bareback riding
Steer wrestling
Team roping
Saddle bronc riding
Tie-down roping
Barrel racing
Bull riding

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Upper Canada Village is a heritage park in the village of Riverside near Morrisburg, Ontario, which depicts a 19th-century village in Upper Canada. Construction of Upper Canada Village began in 1958. The village is made up of 40 authentic buildings plucked from 10 communities that were flooded as a result of the St. Lawrence Seaway project. You can wander through Cook’s Tavern, the Blacksmith’s Shop, Asselstine’s Woollen Factory, the Schoolhouse, the Gazette Printing Office and the many other dwellings to learn about the intricacies of colonial life.

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Annual event at Commercial-Broadway Skytrain station began as a prank in New York City in 2002. Vancouver Improv Anywhere hosted this flash mob where participants boarded the SkyTrain with their pants off. This year the event attracted hundreds of participants packed on the Expo Line at the starting line on Commercial-Broadway Station and ending at Stadium SKYTRAIN for photo opportunities.

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The University of Toronto Mississauga is a vibrant and active undergraduate and graduate campus that offers the benefits of a University of Toronto education in a beautiful park-like campus. The campus consists of a number of buildings arranged across a large, treed lot. The surrounding suburban neighbourhood is a fairly affluent section of the city of Mississauga. Established in 1967, UTM is the second largest division of U of T, with 11,700 undergraduate students, 500 graduate students, 740 staff and over 40,000 alumni. The campus is home to 15 academic departments and an Institute of Communication, Culture and Information Technology, where the new $37-million Terrence Donnelly Health Sciences Complex joins the recently opened $70-million Instructional Centre and numerous other award-winning buildings and residences.

Hazel McCallion Academic Learning Centre

Instructional Centre exterior

Instructional Centre exterior

Health Sciences Complex

Health Sciences Complex

CT Building

CT Building

Deerfield Hall

Deerfield Hall

Deerfield Hall

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Casa Loma is a beautiful landmark and makes for an incredible venue for events. The former home of Canadian financier Sir Henry Pellatt, Canada\’s famous castle is complete with decorated suites, secret passages, an 800-foot tunnel, towers, stables, and beautiful 5-acre estate gardens. It was built by Canadian financier Sir Henry Pellatt to fulfill his childhood wish for a castle. His dream took three years and $3.5 million to complete. If you visit Toronto, it’s a worthwhile place to visit!

Admission:

Adults (18-59): $24.00
Seniors (60+)/Youth (14 – 17): $18.00
Children (4-13): $14.00

Opening Hours:

Daily from 9:30 am to 5:00 pm.

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The best event in Vancouver that is fan for spectators and patrons. Every year the Vancouver Zombie Walk grows bigger, with more participants of all ages, ever more creative costumes and levels of GORE, and more huge quantities of blood-soaked fun every single time. The Walking Dead became a real-life. Zombies terrorized the streets in costumes to pose as the living dead. The meeting point and Zombie Walk route was the same as in past years – Art Gallery.

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Anime Revolution 2014 was a three-day convention hosted in the Vancouver Convention Center, Canada. Catering to a wide range of activities, exhibits, panels, and performances. These included art, animation, comics, costuming, cultural displays, dance, gaming, musical performances, and others. Anime is, however, more than just a cartoon to its fans. In a Japanese series, the characters traditionally have extremely large, doe-like eyes and spiky or long hair.

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The VFW is the fastest growing fashion week in the world and every year the event is attended by over 20,000 guests. The event will took place at the Chinese Cultural Center in Vancouver’s historic Chinatown.

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Chateau Frontenac is an imposing building with five brick and stone wings and a central tower erected in seven stages between 1892 and 1993. It is located on a cliff overlooking the St. Lawrence River, within the Québec historic district. The original building burnt to the ground in 1834, and was not rebuilt for 60 years until the original portion of Chateau Frontenac was constructed. Nowadays, the Château Frontenac is a grand hotel in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, which is operated as Fairmont Le Château Frontenac.

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Gros Morne National Park is a world heritage site located on the west coast of Newfoundland. At 1,805 km2 (697 sq mi), it is the second largest national park in Atlantic Canada. The landscape holds many rock formations with deep valleys, waterfalls and fjords, stark cliffs, and curving beaches of white sand, secret coves, mossy bogs and wide stone barrens, mountains topped with arctic-alpine tundra where arctic hare, woodland caribou, and rock ptarmigan live and a vast natural rock garden of northern flowers flourish. Gros Morne National Park surrounds seven small coastal communities. These communities began around the early 1800’s as migratory fishermen and their families decided to over winter in this area after the fishing season rather than returning to their homes in other regions of Newfoundland, France and England.

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The Rogers Vancouver Santa Claus parade is held every November or early December. The 2013 Rogers Vancouver Santa Claus parade was Sunday, December 1st at 1 pm. The parade starts at West Georgia Street and Broughton, travels east along West Georgia, turns north on Burrard and finishes at Burrard and Cordova. The event included the community, local charities, businesses and over 300,000 spectators.

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A visit to Drumheller would not be complete without a visit to the Royal Tyrrell Museum. The Royal Tyrrell Museum is a popular Canadian centre of palaeontological research noted for its collection of more than 130,000 fossils. The Museum provided a fun and very informative historical and fossil account of the \”period of the dinosaurs\”. The museum opened in 1985 as just the plain old tyrrell museum of palaeontology, however 10 years later in 1995 due to the museum\’s important work and increasing reputation the queen of england gave it her approval, and it gained the royal on the front of its name.

Opening Hours:

Fall/Winter 2013 – 2014
September 1 – May 14
10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday

Spring/Summer 2014
May 15 – August 31
9:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Open seven days a week.

Admission:

One-day
Adult (18-64): $11.00
Senior (65+): $8.00
Youth (7-17): $6.00
Children (6 and under): Free

Two-day
Adult (18-64): $16.50
Senior (65+): $12.00
Youth (7-17): $9.00
Children (6 and under): Free

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The CN Tower is Toronto’s tallest and most defining landmark. Photos of Toronto are often defined by the building, which stretches more than 550 metres into the sky. This former tallest freestanding structure on earth—is, at 1,815 feet, still one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World. The tower was constructed by Canadian National Railroad to improve television reception. Construction of the CN Tower cost CAD$63 million. The tower consists of 40,522 cubic meters of concrete, 129 km of post-tensioned steel, and 5,080 metric tons of reinforcing steel. The tower is estimated to weigh 132,080 metric tons.

Antenna: 1815 ft
Roof: 1500 ft
Top floor : 1465 ft (“Skypod”, 147 floor level)
Restaurant: 1152 ft
Observation deck: 1135 ft (“Look Out Level”, 114 floor level)
Glass floor: 1122 ft (113 floor level)

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The extraordinary ruins of this church recall the early history of Roman Catholicism in Upper Canada. Begun in 1815, St. Raphael’s Church originally served as the centre of the colony’s largest and most important parish, and the administrative headquarters of the first Roman Catholic bishop, Alexander Macdonell. In 1970 a fire consumed the church of St. Raphael’s, one of the earliest Roman Catholic churches in English-speaking Canada. The Ruins were declared a National Historic Site in 1999.

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