Important places in our past are all around you. No matter where you live or travel in Canada, there are museums, historic sites and all kinds of other special places to explore. In each issue of Kayak, we tell you about some that relate to our theme — check them out below! And if you have a favourite historic place, tell us about it.

Canadian Firsts

You can see the monument to Alfred Fuller, who started the Fuller Brush Company, one of the first hugely successful door-to-door sales companies, in Kings County, Nova Scotia.

Check out lots of Canadian transportation firsts at Ontario’s Horseless Carriage Museum, including one of the first shaft-driven wooden bicycles made in Canada, which was owned by the first lockmaster at Canada’s first canal locks in nearby Bobcaygeon!

The first Albertosaurus was discovered by a young geologist named Joseph Tyrrell in the Red Deer River valley in 1884. This meat-eater was closely related to Tyrannosaurus rex. You can learn about it and many other Canadian dinosaurs at the Royal Tyrrell Museum near Drumheller, Alberta.

Find out the story of the first Yukon Quest Sled Dog Race at the MacBride Museum of Yukon History in Whitehorse. The 1600-kilometre race was first run in 1983.