Musée Redpath

Description:

• This quirky natural history museum, housed in an 1882 building with a grandly proportioned and richly appointed interior, is on the McGill University campus. The main draws -- worth a half-hour visit -- are the mummies and coffin that are part of its collection of Egyptian antiquities, the second largest in Canada, and skeletons of whales and prehistoric beasts. If the unusual name seems slightly familiar, it could be because you've seen it on the wrappings of sugar cubes in many Canadian restaurants: John Redpath was a 19th-century industrialist who built Canada's first sugar refinery.

• © Frommer's 2013