Results: Oldest Tourist Attraction in Canada (Part One)

Alberta - Father Lacombe Chapel - In 1861, Father Albert Lacombe and his Métis helpers constructed a log building to serve the new St. Albert Roman Catholic Mission. This simple chapel, Alberta's oldest building, became the centre of the thriving French speaking Metis settlement of St. Albert. Today the chapel has been restored to look much as it did in the early 1860s. Drop in to the chapel and let the historical interpreters take you back to an earlier time. Visit the crypt where Father Lacombe and Bishop Grandin are buried. Take a stroll through the cemetery, the resting place of some of St. Albert's first residents. Interpretive guides lead tours through the chapel and the historic Mission Hill site and demonstrate activities and skills of the time. Education programs and special events are offered as well. Tours are available in English or French. Have you ever visited this attraction?

British Columbia - Ninstints, Haida Gwaii Islands - For the adventure minded who enjoy a dose of history and culture with their travel, Haida Gwaii, formerly the Queen Charlotte Islands, is a unique and compelling destination. Archaeological evidence indicates that Haida Gwaii have been inhabited for thousands of years; however, small pox wiped out the population in the 1860s. Today Haida watchmen guard the site and offer tours to a limited number of visitors each day. Have you ever visited this attraction?

Manitoba - Lower Fort Garry National Historic Site - History will unfold before your eyes at this restored 19th century fort where costumed staff recreate the 1850s in the Red River Valley. Come and meet the Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company as he strolls through his garden, barter with the company clerk, sit in a tipi and listen to the whispers of ancient legends, and touch the coarse fur of a bison hide at the oldest stone fur trading post in North America – or, if you prefer, scour the fort for clues in a family scavenger hunt. There is something here for the whole family. Have you ever visited this attraction?

New Brunswick - Partridge Island - Partridge Island is a Canadian National Historic Site, for perhaps all the wrong reasons. It was here, in 1785, that the British established a quarantine station and a pest house (a location for individuals with communicable diseases), though not in use properly until 1816, and then again in the 1830s and 1840s at the height of the Irish Potato Famine, to which Irish immigrants flocked. The famine and Typhus epidemic in 1847 claimed the lives of almost 1200 people at Partridge Island and tens of thousands back home in Ireland. A memorial for the dead lies solemnly. If you wish to visit a darker side of the history of New Brunswick, then Partridge Island is the place to go. Have you ever visited this attraction?