Are there any hisorical sites in Canada?

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SteveN

Unless you include native american or inuit burial grounds, the oldest settlements (and thus buildings) you would find are on the east coast.

These only date back to about the 1600's. Montreal and Quebec City are two of the oldest cities in Canada, and both have a historic sector. Montreal has the old port and all its stone buildings and old churches. Quebec City is the site of an old fort, and the walls of that fort still run throughout the older part of the city.

As for older than that, there is the Gaspe peninsula and Nova Scotia area which was first visited by the vikings in the 1400's, and there may be some landmarks there to signify this. However, to my knowledge there is no ruins or indication other than what we have learned from historians and archaelogists that studied the site.

Mike S

Well, you won't find anything medieval in Canada, just as you won't anywhere in the Americas because they were not discovered until the very end of the Middle Ages, and then very little was built. But there are historical sites.

Some places to check out:
Fort Niagara (About 20 miles upriver from Niagara Falls)

Castleloma is pretty nice if you want an old structure.

There are battlegrounds from the French and Indian War, among other wars.

On the Pacific coast, you will find many artifacts from Native Americans. The Museum of Antropology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver is an excellent place to see these cultures, as well as others from around the world.

I'm sure there are more; I am from the US, but can attest to these sites in Canada having been to them.

fatsausage

The Fields of Abraham in Quebec City where the British
beat the French for posession of Canada.

short shrimp

Well... if you want proof of the earliest European inhabitants, go to Newfoundland. There are ruins of ancient Viking settlements there dating back prior to any of the other explorers showing up. The natives ( First Nations ) were here of course before anyone else, but I don't think you'll find any sites to visit where they inhabited that are older than the Viking settlements in Newfoundland.

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Is this an April Fool's question? That was yesterday.

Anyhoo...

What do you consider "historic"? This land has been around as long as all other land.

Does a country need to have buildings built by Europeans to be historic?

If that's what you're after, there is a Viking settlement in Newfoundland/Labrador that you might want to check out. It must have been active around 1000 AD.

After the Vikings left, the next Europeans to spend time here were the French who settled in Nova Scotia (Acadia) and Quebec. Quebec City was founded about 1600 and there are many pretty buildings, built after that time.

Old Montreal has some nice old buildings. Old for North America, but not medieval.

There are Indian burial mounds and other sites around the country in various spots.

There is also a part of Alberta which is famous for its dinosaur bones.

If you go to the west coast you can see some huge trees, similar to California's redwood forest, which are also very old. I might be wrong, but I think some of those trees are at least 1000 years old.

Get out of the cities, and look at the nature that's been here thousands of years.

Did you know that the Cajuns of New Orleans are descendants of French Canadians? When the British took over Nova Scotia, they sent a bunch of the French people who lived there down to New Orleans. Acadian > Cajun.

Also, if you look at a map, you'll notice that there are many French-named towns along the Mississippi. That's because French Canadians boated down the Mississippi from north to south, settling along the way.

marie9

QuÃ©bec city and old Montreal have historic sites and old builings dating back to the 1600's but no medeival castles. The only "Castle" I know of is The ChÃ¢teau Frontenac in the old part of QuÃ©bec city . It's a really nice hotel if you can afford it!

s2pified

Sorry. No medieval castles or churches in Canada. No medieval edifaces.
The only people living in Canada during medieval times were First Nations People. And they didn't leave much behind.
Canada has a very long history of human inhabitation going back as far as the ice age. (Evidence of Ice Age inhabitants have been found from Yukon through to Southern Ontario.) While it's facinating, unfortunately there isn't much to see aside from archiological remains.
The first Europeans arrived in 1534 (Jacques Cartier). Though there is evidence (L'Anse Aux Meadows) that the vikings were here before that.

Here are a few interesting places to visit:

Peterborough Petroglyphs, Ontario
Generally believed to have been carved by the Algonkian people between 900 and 1400 AD. more than 900 individual images can bee seen here.

Igloolik Island , Nunavut
Canadaâ€™s First Inhabitants
Igloolik Island Archaeological Site, Igloolik Island
Site reveals continuous occupation from 2000 B.C. to 1000 A.D.

Kodlunarn Island
Martin Frobisherâ€™s home and foundry (1576-1578), Kodlunarn Island

L'Anse aux Meadows, St. Anthony, Newfoundland
A unique Viking site; archaeological proof of viking settlement

Avalon Colony, Ferryland, Newfoundland
Site of the first English colony in Canada, dating back to 1621

Cartier-BrÃ©beuf National Historic Site of Canada near Quebec City commemorates the period in 1535-1536 when Jacques Cartier and his shipmates wintered near the Iroquoian village of Stadacona.

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