by CARISSA BLUESTONE

Canada’s Most Unusual Museums: the world-famous Gopher Hole Museum (Photo: Colin Smith)
Did you know that Vancouver has an entire museum devoted to corkscrews, that diehard Anne Murray fans can devour every detail of her life and record a CD with her in Nova Scotia, or that a tiny town called Vulcan in the Alberta Prairies is home to a Star Trek–themed tourist “station”? From the über-Canadian to the downright kooky, these unusual, one-of-a-kind and just plain weird museums earn the moniker “cabinet of curiosities”.
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- <strong>Vancouver, British Columbia</strong><br /> <br /> The name may clue you in, but they’re really crazy about corkscrews at the <a href="http://www.corkscrewinn.com/wine_museum">Corkscrew Inn</a>. One of the hosts authored <em>The Compendium of Bar Corkscrews</em> and this B&B truly has a world-class collection of these familiar instruments meanwhile taking a unfamiliar approach. This museum houses a wide array of corkscrews ranging from the practical and humorous to the beautifully ornate. This unusual museum is truly a must see for wine connoisseurs of all shapes and sizes.<br /> <em>• The Corkscrew Inn Wine Museum, 2735 West 2nd Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia V6K 1K2. 604-733-7276. <a href=" http://www.corkscrewinn.com/wine_museum"> CorckscrewInn.com </a> </em><br />
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- <strong>Edmonton, Alberta</strong><br /> <br /> This <a href="http://www.telephonehistoricalcentre.com/">collection</a> of antique phones isn’t really stuck in the past. Throughout the museum there are special barcodes that can be scanned using smartphones to unlock even more information on the exhibits, which further trace Edmonton’s telephonic history.<br /> <em>• Telephone Historical Centre, 10440 - 108 Prince of Wales Armouries Heritage Centre Ave NW Edmonton, Alberta. 780-433-1010, <a href="http://www.telephonehistoricalcentre.com/index.phtml">TelephoneHistoricalCentre.com</a></em>.
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- <strong>Montreal, Quebec</strong><br /> <br /> The structure that houses—or, rather, surrounds—this <a href="http://www.ec.gc.ca/biosphere/">museum</a> is noteworthy enough. It’s the largest of Buckminster Fuller’s iconic geodesic domes, constructed for Expo 67. The Planet Bucky exhibit celebrates the spirit of socially conscious innovators, while the rest of the museum deals with the facts of climate change using interactive displays and testimonials from the greatly affected Inuit communities. This museum is a sight to behold and is the perfect match for environmentally conscious and curious visitors.<br /> <em>• Biosphere Environment Museum, 160, Chemin Tour-de-l'Isle, Île Sainte-Hélène, Montréal, Quebec H3C 4G8. 514-283-5000. <a href="http://www.ec.gc.ca/biosphere/default.asp?lang=En&n=3C2E8507-1">BiosphereEnvironmentMuseum</a></em>.
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- <strong>Springhill, Nova Scotia</strong><br /> <br /> Canada’s Graceland is in the humble coal-mining hometown of the country’s original chanteuse. The obsessive details of superfandom are on display at the <a href="http://www.annemurraycentre.com/">centre</a>, from Murray’s first record player to the dress she wore when representing Nova Scotia in the 1971 Rose Bowl Parade. Visitors of the Anne Murray Centre are even given the opportunity to create a duet with in a miniature recording studio located at the heart of this unusual museum. <br /> <em>• Anne Murray Centre. 36 Main Street Spring Hill, Nova Scotia B0M 1X0. 902-597-8614. <a href="http://www.annemurraycentre.com">AnneMurrayCentre.com</a></em>.
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- <strong>Vancouver, British Columbia</strong><br /> <br /> Among vintage motorcycles and counterfeit currency there’s some pretty strange stuff on display at the <a href="http://www.vancouverpolicemuseum.ca/">Vancouver Police Museum</a>, like skin samples showing contact wounds, a disturbing but inventive variety of confiscated weapons, and a mock morgue with an autopsy table that may or may not have held the cities most notorious criminals.<br /> <em>• Vancouver Police Museum. 240 E. Cordova St. Vancouver, British Columbia V6A 1L3. 604-665-3346. <a href="http://www.vancouverpolicemuseum.ca/">VancouverPoliceMuseum.ca</a><br /> <a href="http://www.where.ca/listings/vancouver/entertainment/historic-sites-museums-and-interpretive-centres/vancouver-police-museum-wh/"> Map and reviews</a></em>.
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- <strong>Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario</strong><br /> <br /> Aviation museums aren’t uncommon, but you can’t get a more Canadian take on the concept than a <a href="http://www.bushplane.com/">warehouse full of bushplanes</a>. The museum has 20 restored aircraft, flight simulators, a replica fire tower and a 3D simulated adventure that allows you to experience what it's like to battle a forest fire. And not to mention the inclusive Aircraft Maintenance Engineers Hall of Fame.<br /> <em>• Canadian Bushplane Heritage Centre. 50 Pim Street<br /> Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario P6A 3G4. 705-945-6242. <a =href"http://www.bushplane.com/index.php"> BushPlane.com</a></em>.
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- <strong>Niagara Falls, Ontario</strong><br /> <br /> Amid Niagara Falls schlocky wax museums and haunted houses is an authentically interesting and disturbing piece of Niagara history. The <a href="http://imaxniagara.com/daredevil-gallery/">Daredevil Gallery</a> displays the original vessels used by the 16 thrill seekers who decided to push the laws of physics by riding over the falls in various contraptions (often only protected by a barrel). This unusual museum follows the dramatic past of daredevils and thrill seekers that continues to flag Niagara Falls.<br /> <em>• Daredevil Gallery, Niagra Falls IMAX. 6170 Fallsview Boulevard, Niagara Falls, Ontario<br /> L2G 7T8. 905-358-361. <a =href"http://imaxniagara.com/daredevil-exhibit/"> ImaxNiagara.com</a></em>.
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- <strong>Toronto, Ontario</strong><br /> <br /> The many brass instruments on display at this <a href="http://home.psych.utoronto.ca/resources/museum.htm">unique museum</a> include late-19th-century spectroscopes, ergographs and test kits for memory retention and the detection of conditions like color blindness. All were actual instruments used in the U of T Psych department’s early, groundbreaking days. <br /> <em>• University of Toronto Museum of Psychological Instruments. 416-978-5201. <a href=http://home.psych.utoronto.ca/resources/museum.htm">website</a></em>.
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- <strong>Westlock, Alberta</strong> <br /> <br /> A giant working weather vane topped with a scale-model vintage tractor marks the spot of this <a href="http://www.canadiantractormuseum.ca/weathervane.htm">repository of more than 200 antique tractors</a>.<br /> <em>• Canadian Tractor Museum. 9704-96 Ave, Westlock, Alberta T7P 2R6. 780-349-3353. <a href="http://www.canadiantractormuseum.ca/index.htm"> CanadianTractorMuseum.ca</a></em>.
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- <strong>North Bay, Ontario</strong><br /> <br /> The Dionne quintuplet girls were born during the height of the Great Depression. Their very existence and survival apparently brought hope to millions. The girls, made wards of the state, became an international figures that brought in more than three million visitors proving to be a large tourist attraction during the Great Depression. The original Dionne homestead is now the <a href="http://northbaychamber.com/tourism/museum/">Dionne Quints Museum</a>, containing artifacts from baby bottles to posters from the Hollywood films they starred in. This museum holds relics and antiques from the Dionne quintuplets lives proving to be a very unique museum in Canadian history.<br /> <em>• Dionne Quints Museum. 1375 Seymour St North Bay, Ontario P1B 9V6. 705-472-8480. <a =href"http://northbaychamber.com/tourism/museum/">NorthBayChamber.com</a></em>.
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- <strong>Revelstoke British Columbia</strong><br /> <br /> This unsual museum houses an impressive assemblage of automated noisemakers from the 1800s through the 1950s, this <a href="http://www.revelstokenickelodeon.com/">small museum</a> has everything from player pianos to vintage jukeboxes and everything in between. This museum is the perfect attraction for music lovers and historians alike with the help of a tour guide visitors will leave with a plethora of knowledge in musical history!<br /> <em>• Revelstoke Nickelodean Museum. 111 First Street West, Revelstoke, British Columbia V0E 2S0. 250-837-5250. <a =href"http://www.revelstokenickelodeon.com/"> RevelstokeNickelodeon.com.</a></em><br />
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- <strong>The Pas, Manitoba</strong><br /> <br /> The Main Gallery of the <a href="http://www.samwallermuseum.ca">Samm Waller Museum</a> is a fairly straightforward collection of geological, regional and First Nations artifacts. However things start getting weird in Sam’s Gallery, which features some of the late collector’s quirkier items, like a taxidermy two-headed calf and a pair of vintage ‘70s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broomball">broomball</a> shoes (pictured).<br /> <em>• Sam Waller Museum. 306 Fischer Avenue, The Pas, Manitoba R9A 1K4. 204-623-3802. <a href="http://www.samwallermuseum.ca/">SamWallerMuseum</a></em>.<br /> <br />
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- <strong>Deep River, Ontario</strong><br /> <br /> Canada’s only <a href="http://www.canclockmuseum.ca ">clock museum</a> focuses on early 20th-century timepieces made by local Ontario clock companies, along with watchmaking and clock making tools. As Canadas only clock museum this hidden gem truly offers a one of a kind experience for visitors and collectors alike.<br /> <em>• Canadian Clock Museum. 60 James Street, Deep River, Ontario K0J 1P0. 613-584-9687. <a href="http://www.canclockmuseum.ca/">CanClockMuseum.ca</a></em>.
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- <strong>Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick</strong><br /> <br /> The passion of the late Michael Zimmer, a man known to float around Seal Cove in boat resembling a giant sardine can, this <a href="http://www.facebook.com/SardineMuseum?sk=wall ">community museum</a> has shelves of vintage tins, a working smokehouse and pieces from visiting artists like a <a href="http://petercunninghamphotography.com/tag/sardine-museum/">mural</a> made of wooden skewers used to smoke herring.<br /> <em>• The Sardine Museum & Herring Hall of Fame. 776, Seal Cove, Grand Manan, New Brunswick E5G 4E9. <a href="http://www.grandmanannb.ca/ATTRACTIONS_Museum.html">GrandMananNb.ca</a></em>.<br />
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- <strong>Torrington, Alberta</strong><br /> <br /> This oddball museum is a very specific taxidermy museum, the Gopher Hole features dozens of dioramas with stuffed gophers dressed up in everything from preachers to Mounties. The Gopher Hole Museum is a one of a kind attraction that you will have you entertained from the moment you enter up until the time you walk out of the doors.<br /> <br /> Check out more photos <a href="http://www.calgaryherald.com/Photo+Gallery+Alberta+beloved+Gopher+Museum/3369444/story.html">here</a>.<br /> <br /> <em>• Gopher Hole Museum. 208 1 Street South Torrington, Alberta, Canada T0M 2B0. 403-631-2133. <a href="http://gopherholemuseum.ca/">GopherHoleMuseum.ca</a></em>.<br /> <br />
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- <strong>Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario</strong><br /> <br /> Enema boxes, leech jars and snakeoil—oh my! This <a href="http://www.niagaraapothecary.ca ">model apothecary</a> has plenty of odd remedies to giggle over, but it’s also a beautiful restoration of a real local business, with rows and rows of the original bottles imported from England in 1869. This building truly explores the beauty of the surrounding area and historical accuracy of the pharmaceutical business and medicinal cures from a time when medical exploration was still a relatively new venture.<br /> <em>• Niagara Apothecary: A Pharmacy Museum. 5 Queen Street, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. 905-468-3845. <a href="a href="http://www.niagaraapothecary.ca"> NiagraApothecary.ca</a></em>.
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- <strong>Vulcan, Alberta</strong><br /> <br /> The town of Vulcan, Alberta, cleverly uses its iconic name with a spaceship-shaped <a href="http://www.vulcantourism.com/">visitor centre</a> packed with more than 800 pieces of <em>Star Trek</em> memorabilia. This visitor destination is a must see for Star Trek fans or curious onlookers drawn in by its unique spaceship style exterior.<br /> <br /> <em>• Vulcan Tourism & Star Trek Station. 115 Centre Street E, Vulcan, AB T0L 2B0. 403-485-2994. <a href="http://www.vulcantourism.com">VulcanTourism.com</a></em>.
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- <strong>Toronto, Ontario</strong><br /> <br /> This unique museum is a must see for shoe-fanatics and pop culture fans from all across the board. Napoleon’s silk socks and Elton John’s platform boots hang out in the Walk of Fame, and the rest of the <a href="http://www.batashoemuseum.ca">Bata Shoe Museum</a> spans the history of footwear from knights’ sabatons to vintage Nike Airs.<br /> <em>• Bata Shoe Museum. 327 Bloor St. West,Toronto, 416-979-7799. <a href="http://www.batashoemuseum.ca/">BataShoeMuseum.ca</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://www.where.ca/listings/toronto/attractions/museums/bata-shoe-museum-wh/"> Map and reviews </a> </em>.
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- <strong>O’Leary, Prince Edward Island</strong><br /> <br /> Despite its most photographed attractions—a giant potato sculpture and tiny coffins holding potatoes devastated by soil rot and other afflictions, the <a href="http://www.peipotatomuseum.com ">PEI Potato Museum</a> is a educational treat that traces the history of the potato industry in the surrounding fields and beyond.<br /> <em>• The Canadian Potato Museum, 1 Dewar Lane, Oleary, Prince Edward Island C0B 1V0. 902-859-2039. <a href="http://www.peipotatomuseum.com/index.htm"> PeiPotatoMuseum.com </a></em>.
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- Prince Edward Island Potato Museum
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- Photo: PEI Potato Museum