Added on December 26, 2007 and filed under National Parks, Northwest Territories
Ivvavik, meaning a place for giving birth, a nursery, in Inuvialuktun, the language of the Inuvialuit, is the first national park in Canada to be created as a result of an aboriginal land claim agreement. The park protects a wide portion of the calving grounds of the Porcupine caribou herd and occupies the Northern Yukon [...]
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 [...]