Added on March 26, 2008 and filed under National Parks, Natural Environments, Newfoundland & Labrador
Gros Morne National Park of Canada was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987. It is an area of amazing natural beauty with a broad variety of scenery, wildlife, and recreational activities. Visitors can hike through wild, uninhabited mountains and camp by the sea. Boat tours bring visitors under the towering cliffs of a [...]
Added on December 26, 2007 and filed under National Parks, Nature Reserves, Yukon
A gem in the family of Parks Canada’s national treasures, Kluane National Park and Reserve of Canada covers an area of 21,980 sq kms. It is a land of precipitous, high mountains, massive icefields and lush valleys that yield a huge variety of plant and wildlife species and provides for a host of outdoor activities. [...]
Added on and filed under British Columbia, National Parks
Kootenay National Park of British Columbia represents the south-western region of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. From glacier-clad peaks along the Continental Divide to semi-arid grasslands of the Rocky Mountain Trench, where cactus grows, this is a park rich in diversity of landscapes and ecology.
The area that is now Kootenay National Park was once a meeting [...]
Added on and filed under National Parks, Nunavut
Sweeping glaciers and polar sea ice meet jagged mountains in Auyuittuq National Park of Canada. Established in 1976, Auyuittuq – an Inuktitut word meaning “land that never melts” – protects 19,089 sq kms of glacier-scoured terrain. Located in the most eastern Arctic, on southern Baffin Island, the park includes the highest peaks of the Canadian [...]
Added on and filed under Alberta, Historical Sites, National Parks
In the fall of 1883, three Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) construction workers stumbled across a cave containing hot springs on the eastern slopes of Alberta’s Rocky Mountains. From that humble beginning was born Banff National Park, Canada’s first national park and the world’s third. Spanning over 6,641 sq kms (2,564 square miles) of valleys, mountains, [...]
Added on November 26, 2007 and filed under British Columbia, National Parks
Glacier National Park of Canada protects, for all time, a wide portion of the Columbia Mountains natural region, in the interior of British Columbia. The steep, rugged mountains, warm, moist climate and wide variety of plant and animal life are typical of this natural region. The park protects unique stands of old-growth cedar and hemlock [...]
Added on March 20, 2007 and filed under Alberta, Historical Sites, National Parks
Jasper National Park is the largest and most northerly Canadian rocky mountain national park, part of a superlative World Heritage Site. Comprised of delicate and carefully protected ecosystems, Jasper’s scenery is none-the-less rugged and mountainous. In this special corner of Canada you can thrill to the thunder of Sunwapta Falls, enjoy the serene beauty of [...]