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The Ontario Legislative Building in Toronto, Canada, houses the viceregal suite of the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, and the offices for members of the provincial parliament.
"The Crystal" is the entrance to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. The ROM is Canada's largest repository of world culture and natural history.
Inside one of the six conservatories at Allan Gardens, a park and indoor botanical garden in Toronto, Canada. Opened in 1860, Allan Gardens is one of the oldest parks in Toronto and is named after a former mayor and senator who donated the land to the city.
The Bay of Fundy between the provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, Canada, is home to the highest recorded tides on Earth, which can seasonally exceed 15 m (50 ft). On the western shore of the bay, Hopewell Rocks are sandstone conglomerates eroded by the rapidly shifting tides. At low tide, the formations are viewable from the beach.
Fossil Beach on the eastern side of the Bay of Fundy in Canada regularly sees 12 m (40 ft) tides. At low tide, people can search the beach and cliffs for prehistoric fossils to add to the nearby museum collection.
Moraine Lake in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. The intense blue waters of the lake come from the run-off of nearby glaciers.
Montmorency Falls forms at the mouth of the Montmorency River as it drops over a cliff shore into the St. Lawrence River. The waterfalls are the highest in Canada's province of Quebec.
Green Gables farmhouse, Cavendish, Prince Edward Island, Canada. The farm and its environs served as the setting for the popular "Anne of Green Gables" novels by Lucy Maud Montgomery.
Peggys Point Lighthouse in Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada, is a popular tourist site operated by the Canadian Coast Guard. The lighthouse, the second one on this site, was built in 1914 and is 15 m (50 ft) tall.
Balancing Rock is a 6.1-m (20-ft)-tall basalt pillar located along St. Mary’s Bay in Nova Scotia, Canada. This rock sits precariously along the exposed coastline but is strong enough to have resisted efforts to pull it down.
Hans Island, an uninhabited island located between Canada’s Ellesmere Island and Greenland (an autonomous territory of Denmark), was the center of a “whiskey war” between Canada and Denmark from 1984 to 2022. The island was named for Greenlandic Inuk explorer Hans Hendrik, who was part of the 1853 expedition to the barren 130 h (320 acre) island that established Denmark’s claim. Canada then operated a scientific station there during World War II, and a Canadian oil company later operated nearby. In 1984, the Danish prime minister planted a flag on the island, prompting the Canadians to plant their flag – and leave a bottle of whiskey for the Danes. The Danes reciprocated with a flag-raising and a bottle of schnapps for the Canadians. This “war” lasted until an agreement in 2022 split the island in half. The agreement was sealed with a final exchange of spirits.
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