San Juan National Historic Site

Old San Juan is home to the San Juan National Historic Site, with buildings dating from the 16th century, including the San Felipe del Morro and San Cristóbal fortresses and the old city walls. This fortification system is the oldest European construction under United States jurisdiction and one of the oldest in the New World.

Unesco: La Fortaleza and San Juan National Historic Site in Puerto Rico
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Date: Dec 27

Historic Properties

A designated National Historic Site in the heart of downtown Halifax, Historic Properties is the first restoration project of its kind in Canada, featuring three city blocks of Canada’s oldest surviving group of waterfront warehouses and some of North America’s finest Victorian-Italianate façades dating back to the late 1700s and early 1800s. Charming historic buildings offer modern boutique shopping, gourmet dining, and true East Coast entertainment.

RR: Canada x World RR
Date: Oct 29

Landscape of Grand Pré

Situated in the southern Minas Basin of Nova Scotia, the Grand Pré marshland and archaeological sites constitute a cultural landscape bearing testimony to the development of agricultural farmland using dykes and the aboiteau wooden sluice system, started by the Acadians in the 17th century and further developed and maintained by the Planters and present-day inhabitants. Over 1,300 ha, the cultural landscape encompasses a large expanse of polder farmland and archaeological elements of the towns of Grand Pré and Hortonville, which were built by the Acadians and their successors. The landscape is an exceptional example of the adaptation of the first European settlers to the conditions of the North American Atlantic coast.

Unesco: Landscape of Grand Pré
RR: Canada x World RR
Date: Nov 6

Red Bay Basque Whaling Station

Red Bay, established by Basque mariners in the 16th century at the north-eastern tip of Canada on the shore of the Strait of Belle Isle is an archaeological site that provides the earliest, most complete and best preserved testimony of the European whaling tradition.  The station was founded in 1530s and was used as a base for coastal hunting, butchering, rendering of whale fat by heading to produce oil and storage.  The site, which was used in the summer months, includes remains of rendering ovens, cooperages, wharves, temporary living quarters and a cemetery, together with underwater remains of vessels and whale bone deposits

Unesco: Red Bay Basque Whaling Station
RR: Unesco RR
Date: March 22

Stanley Park

Stanley Park is a 405-hectare (1,001-acre) public park in British Columbia, Canada that makes up the northwestern half of Vancouver's Downtown Peninsula. The Stanley Park Totem Poles at Brockton Point are one of BC’s most visited tourist attractions. These towering monuments tell the stories of First Nations history and culture and are one of the most recognizable symbols of Western Canada. Since the 1920s, the Vancouver Parks Board has been collecting intricately carved totem poles from remote locations in BC.

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Date: March 13

Bellevue House National Historic Site

Bellevue House was the home of Canada’s first Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald. It is an Italianate villa situated in its own landscaped grounds in an early suburb of Kingston, Ontario. Bellevue House is notable for the non-symmetrical Italian Villa style of its architecture. Features of Italianate architecture at Bellevue House include an L-shaped layout with two wings extending from a square central tower, different varieties and shapes of windows and roof gables, and multiple small balconies.

RR: North America meets the world
Date: Dec 11