The Shania Twain Centre started out as a terrific idea for a tourist attraction, but the Timmins, Ontario facility did not live up to the hype and demolition has been started to destroy the facility and eliminate all traces of a project that started out so promising yet ended up being a waste of time and money. Plans for the Shania Twain Centre started in 1999, and the facility finally opened on Canada Day in 2001. The hope was that the well known Canadian singer could attract tourists to the area on a large scale, and improve the local economy as a result. The grand opening occurred without Shania Twain, because the singer was pregnant and unable to travel, but that did not stop people from coming from all over the globe to check out this attraction while it was open.
The Shania Twain Centre idea was very popular with Canadians, and the singer was the leading female country singer in the world when the project was first planned. There were very few people in the world who did not know who Shania Twain was, and that made a tourist attraction featuring this country icon seem like a great idea. The problem was that interest waned in the Shania Twain Centre as the years went by, and there were fewer visitors to the tourist attraction as the time passed. Many enjoyed the fact that a visit to this tourist attraction also included a tour of the conic gold mine in the area as well, but now the centre is in the process of being demolished.