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Begun in 1946, this renowned air show has fascinated audiences and forced people to look up into the skies above Toronto ever since.

This plaque commemorates the establishment of the Exhibition (the “Ex”), a national event that has occurred since 1912.

Today a museum, this structure is the oldest existing stone building in Ottawa. During the construction of the Rideau Canal, it was a storehouse, office and treasury. The building was turned over to the Canadian government in 1864.

Fool’s Paradise was the home and studio of Canadian landscape artist, writer and educator Doris McCarthy (1910-2010). The site overlooks Lake Ontario along Toronto’s Scarborough Bluffs.

In 1912, French-Canadian educational and religious groups came together to discuss the founding of a newspaper that could be used to protest Regulation 17, which severely restricted the teaching of French in Ontario schools. From this, Le Droit was born — a French-language daily newspaper. Le Droit continues to support and defend Franco-Ontarian rights.

Now known as the Elgin & Winter Garden Theatres, this complex was designed by renowned architect Thomas Lamb for entrepreneur Marcus Loew as the Canadian flagship of his American theatre chain. The stacked theatres opened in 1913-14.

Born in this house as Leila Maria Koerber, Marie Dressler became the stage name of this actress who became successful in silent and talking films — including alongside Charlie Chaplin and Greta Garbo. Dressler won an Academy Award in 1931.

Turcot moved to Ottawa at the age of 20 to take a job in the civil service. Later, she became a journalist and writer, and also worked in broadcast journalism. She was active in several French-Canadian cultural organizations as well as a collector of Franco-Ontarian folk tales.

Originally from near Bordeaux, France, Jeanne Branda felt a calling to become a nun and a teacher. In 1899, she joined the Dominican Sisters of Nancy, where she took on the name Sister Marie Thomas d’Aquin. She moved to the United States and then, while visiting Ottawa in 1914, agreed to head the Jeanne d’Arc Institute.

While at Fort Henry, check out the plaque to Bonnycastle, who played a significant role in the defence and economic development of the province.