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Granville Island Museums
1502 Duranleau St., Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
 
Phone 604/683-1939

Here are three museums under one roof. The Sport Fishing Museum houses one of the world's leading collections of angling artifacts, including the world's biggest collection of Hardy reels and fly plates, and a mounted replica of the largest salmon ever caught with a rod and reel.

The collection of the Model Ships Museum includes exquisitely detailed early 20th-century military and working vessels, including a 13-ft replica of the HMS Hood, the British Royal Navy ship that was sunk by the German warship Bismarck in 1941, and a model of the Hunley, an 1863 Confederate submarine that was the first to sink a surface vessel.

The Model Trains Museum, the world's largest toy-train collection on public display, includes a diorama of the Fraser Canyon and the Kettle Valley that involves 1,000 ft of track and some large-scale (3-ft-high) model steam trains. Hobbyists can find goodies in the gift shop. COST: All 3 museums $6.50.