by CARISSA BLUESTONE
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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- Photo: PEI Potato Museum
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- Photo: Tamara Dunn
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- Photo: Courtesy of the Vulcan Tourism & Trek Station
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- Photo: Hannah Karina
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- Photo: Colin Smith
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- Photo: courtesy of Bank of Canada
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- Photo: Wayne Rutherford/Mananook
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- Photo: courtesy of the Canadian Clock Museum
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- Photo: courtesy of the Sam Waller Museum
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- Photo: © North Bay Hotels and Northshore Developments
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- Photo: courtesy Canadian Tractor Museum
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- Photo: University of Toronto Scientific Instruments Collection
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- Photo: courtesy of Niagara Falls IMAX
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- Photo: Canadian Bushplane Heritage Centre
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- Clockwise from left: Erroll Flynn morgue, autopsy saw, brass knuckles (Photos: Kristie Wells)
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- Photo: Wikipedia
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- Photo: Jean-Pierre Dalbéra
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- Photo: Courtesy of the Telephone Historical Centre
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- Photos: courtesy of the Corkscrew Inn Wine Museum
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