"It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw."
— Emily Carr
"The Canadians of those days, at least, possessed a roving spirit of adventure which carried them further, in exposure to hardship and danger, than ever the New England colonist went, and led them, though not to clear and colonize the wilderness, yet to range over it as coureurs de bois, or runners of the woods…"
— Henry David Thoreau
No major museum is solely dedicated to the preservation and research into Canada's true heritage; our wilderness. That aside a number have very fascinating displays dedicated to Canada's numerous First Nations, European Explorers, Fur Traders, notable Wilderness Tourists, and Arctic Travellers.