Important Canadian symbols, landmarks and institutions

1. The Parliament Buildings and Parliament Hill in Ottawa.
2. Canada's Maple Leaf Flag
3. Canada's Coat of Arms
4. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police - in 1995 the Walt Disney Corporation bought the rights to the RCMP image, Google "1995 - Disney scores right to market Mountie products- CBC".
5. The CN Tower in Toronto - a decade ago the Walt Disney Corporation and Viacom wanted to buy the CN Tower. The CN Tower should be privatized and sold off, according to the Fraser Institute, see the article "Time to privatize: Governments should begin selling off assets."
6. Ottawa's Mile of History on Sussex Drive
7. Canada's National Parks - The Fraser Institute wants to see the devolution of  the National Parks in British Columbia to the provincial government of B.C.
8. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
9. Niagara Falls
10. Lighthouses - Fisheries and Oceans Canada divested more than 900 lighthouses. Community groups are trying to save these properties, including "Save the Peggy's Cove Lighthouse".
11. UNESCO World Heritage Sites - 
12. The CPR and CNR railway hotels - 
13. Dominion Buildings - Many Dominion Buildings are gone; Canada Post, Manpower, Canada Customs, the RCMP and the Passport Office were located in Dominion Buildings. Almost every city and town in this country had one of these structures. Many featured clock towers, and Canada's Maple Leaf Flag and our Coat of Arms were prominently displayed. 
14. Illanaaq - a Vancouver 2010 Olympics logo.
15. Grain elevators - many grain elevators have bitten the dust.
16. Niagara Falls
17. The Calgary Tower - 
18. The Dominion Observatories - several years ago the federal government wanted to demolish the Dominion Observatory in Ottawa because of 'budget cuts'.
19. The Canada Place Sails on the Vancouver waterfront. Canada Place was built with taxpayers money for Expo 86. The Fraser Institute is calling for the privatization of Canada Place.
20. Habitat - built for Expo 67, then privatized.
21. The Gulf of Georgia Cannery National Historic Site - located in Steveston B.C.
22. CPR and CNR train stations - In 1970, Marathon Realty planned to bulldoze Windsor Station in Montreal to build an office tower. The National Capital Commission wanted to demolish the Conference Centre, where I worked as a cleaning lady. And two railway stations in Toronto were at risk--Union Station and Summerhill Station. Regarding Summerhill, see the book "Marlborough Marathon: One Street Against a Developer" by J.L. Granatstein.
23. The Canada Wordmark - the global identifier of the Government of Canada.
24. Old Fort Henry in Kingston, Ontario
25. Totem Poles
26. The "Canada" Word mark - Google "Federal Identity Program"-Wikipedia.

Kingston Penitentiary and the Saint-Vincent de Paul Penitentiary in Laval, Quebec were National Historic Sites of Canada. Today, Kingston Pen is a popular tourist attraction, while the movies "Deathrace" and "Battlefield Earth" were filmed at the Laval pen.
     The Prison for Women in Kingston, known as P4W, was a Classified Federal Heritage building.
A tunnel connected Kingston Pen to the nearby Prison for Women. Queen's University now owns P4W.

My mother, brother, niece and nephew at the High Level CPR Bridge in Lethbridge, Alberta - May of 1990.

Dawson Creek B.C. in 1974.

A southern Alberta town in 1974.

The Higginbotham Dominion Bldg.