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Canada UNESCO world heritage sites

Alberta province [capital = Edmonton]

Wood Buffalo National Park in Fort Smith at Peace Point
It sustains the world's largest herd of wood bison, a threatened species. The park's huge tracts of boreal forest also provide crucial habitat for a diverse range of other species, including the endangered whooping crane. The continued evolution of a large inland delta, salt plains and gypsum karst add to the park's uniqueness.

Rocky Mountains from Jasper to Banff @
Renowned for their scenic splendor, the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks are comprised of Banff, Jasper, Kootenay and Yoho national parks and Mount Robson, Mount Assiniboine and Hamber provincial parks. Together, they exemplify the outstanding physical features of the Rocky Mountain Biogeographical Province. Classic illustrations of glacial geological processes - including icefields, remnant valley glaciers, canyons and exceptional examples of erosion and deposition - are found throughout the area.

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump in Fort MacLeod on secondary Highway #785
The deep layers of bison bones buried below the cliff represent nearly 6000 years of use of the buffalo jump by Aboriginal people of the Northern Plains. This landscape is an outstanding illustration of subsistence hunting techniques that continued into the late 19th century and which still form part of the 'traditional knowledge base' of the Plains nations.

Waterton Lakes National Park in Waterton on Highway 5
Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park has a distinctive climate, physiographic setting, mountain-prairie interface and tri-ocean hydrographical divide. It is an area of significant scenic values with abundant and diverse flora and fauna.

Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park in Milk River at NW 36 TW1 range 13
The Milk River Valley dominates the topography of this cultural landscape, which is characterized by a concentration of pillars or hoodoos, columns of rock sculpted by erosion into spectacular shapes. The Blackfoot Confederacy (Siksikaiitsitapi) left engravings and paintings on the sandstone walls of the Milk River Valley, bearing testimony to messages from Sacred Beings.

Dinosaur Provincial Park in Iddesleigh on Highway 130
Dinosaur Provincial Park contains some of the most important fossil specimens discovered from the "Age of Dinosaurs" period of Earth's history. The property is unmatched in terms of the number and variety of high quality specimens which, to date, represent more than 44 species, 34 genera and 10 families of dinosaurs, dating back 75-77 million years. The park contains exceptional riparian habitat features as well as badlands of outstanding aesthetic value.

British Columbia province [capital = Victoria]

Rocky Mountains from Kootenay to Mount Robson
Renowned for their scenic splendor, the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks are comprised of Banff, Jasper, Kootenay and Yoho national parks and Mount Robson, Mount Assiniboine and Hamber provincial parks. Together, they exemplify the outstanding physical features of the Rocky Mountain Biogeographical Province. Classic illustrations of glacial geological processes - including icefields, remnant valley glaciers, canyons and exceptional examples of erosion and deposition - are found throughout the area.

Ninstints village in Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve on island of SGang Gwaay
Remains of houses, together with carved mortuary and memorial poles, illustrate the Haida people's art and way of life.

Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Park from Bear Camp till Three Guardsmen Lake @
Tatshenshini-Alsek Park contains nearly one million hectares of glacier-cloaked peaks, wild rivers, grizzly bears and unusual plant communities.

Manitoba province [capital = Winnipeg]

Pimachiowin Aki in Little Grand Rapids + Pauingassi + Bloodvein River + Poplar River
The area encompasses the traditional lands of four Anishinaabeg communities (Bloodvein River, Little Grand Rapids, Pauingassi and Poplar River). It is an exceptional example of the cultural tradition of Ji-ganawendamang Gidakiiminaan (‘keeping the land’), which consists of honouring the gifts of the Creator, respecting all forms of life and maintaining harmonious relations with others. A complex network of livelihood sites, habitation sites, travel routes and ceremonial sites, often linked by waterways, embodies this tradition

Newfoundland and Labrador province [capital = St John's]

Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve in Portugal Cove South on Highway 10
Most of the fossils are rangeomorphs, an extinct group of fractal organisms positioned near the base of animal evolution. These soft-bodied creatures lived on the deep-sea floor, and were buried and preserved in exceptional detail by influxes of volcanic ash, each layer of ash creating an "Ediacaran Pompeii". Modern erosion has exhumed more than 100 fossil sea-floor surfaces, ranging from small beds with single fossils to larger surfaces adorned with up to 4,500 megafossils.

National Park in Gros Morne at Route 430, Rocky Harbour
The property presents the complete portrayal of the geological events that took place when the ancient continental margin of North America was modified by plate movement by emplacement of a large, relocated portion of oceanic crust and ocean floor sediments. The park also presents an outstanding demonstration of glaciations in an island setting. The fjords, waterfalls and geological structures of the park combine to produce a landscape of high scenic value.

National Historic Site in L'Anse aux Meadows on Route 430
L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site contains the excavated remains of a complete 11th-century Viking settlement, the earliest evidence of Europeans in North America.

Basque Whaling Station in Red Bay on Highway 510
It was used for coastal whale hunting in the summer, the butchery of the whales, and the rendering of the oil and its storage. The whale oil was sold in Europe primarily for lighting purposes. The property includes the remains of rendering ovens, cooperages, a wharf, living quarters and a cemetery, together with the underwater wrecks of vessels and whale bone deposits.

Northwest territories [capital = Yellowknife]

Wood Buffalo National Park in Fort Smith at 149 McDougal Road
Wood Buffalo National Park is an outstanding example of ongoing ecological and biological processes encompassing some of the largest undisturbed grass and sedge meadows left in North America. It sustains the world's largest herd of wood bison, a threatened species.

Nahanni National Park in Tungsten at N61 32 50 W125 35 22
Within the park are examples of almost every distinct category of river or stream that is known along with one of North America's huge waterfalls, Virginia Falls. The Flat and South Nahanni rivers are older than the mountains they dissect and have produced the finest examples of river canyons in the world, north of 60 degree.

Nova Scotia province [capital = Halifax]

Old Town of Lunenburg on Main Street
The inhabitants have safeguarded the town's identity throughout the centuries by preserving the wooden architecture of the houses and public buildings, some of which date from the 18th century and constitute an excellent example of a sustained vernacular architectural tradition.

Landscape in Grand Pre @
The property and its landscape include traces of the major pathways that crossed the marshland and organized the adjacent coastal area. The locations of Grand Pre village and Horton Landing have memorial buildings and monuments erected in the 20th century in homage to the Acadian ancestors and their deportation, starting in 1755.

Fossil Cliffs in Joggins at 100 Main Street
The rocks of this site are considered to be iconic for this period of the history of Earth and are the world's thickest and most comprehensive record of the Pennsylvanian strata (dating back 318 to 303 million years) with the most complete known fossil record of terrestrial life from that time.

Ontario province [capital = Toronto]

Rideau Canal from Ottawa to Kingston via 1001 River Road, Kemptville
The nominated property includes all the main elements of the original canal together with relevant later changes in the shape of watercourses, dams, bridges, fortifications, lock stations and related archaeological resources.

Fortifications in Kingston see detail
The Rideau Canal, a monumental early 19th-century construction covering 202 km of the Rideau and Cataraqui rivers from Ottawa south to Kingston Harbour on Lake Ontario, was built primarily for strategic military purposes at a time when Great Britain and the United States vied for control of the region. The site, one of the first canals to be designed specifically for steam-powered vessels, also features an ensemble of fortifications.

Quebec province [capital = Quebec]

Anticosti Island via Tour de Jupiter @
Thousands of large bedding surfaces allow the observation and study of shell and sometimes soft-bodied animals that lived on the shallow sea floor of an ancient tropical sea.

Historic District of Quebec @
It is made up to two parts: the Upper Town, sitting atop Cap Diamant and defended by fortified ramparts, a citadel, and other defensive works, and the Lower Town, which grew up around Place Royale and the harbour. A well-preserved integrated urban ensemble, the historic district is a remarkable example of a fortified colonial town, and unique north of Mexico.

Miguasha National Park in Nouvelle at 231 Route de Miguasha O
Its significance stems from the discovery there of the highest number and best-preserved fossil specimens of the lobe-finned fishes that gave rise to the first four-legged, air-breathing terrestrial vertebrates: the tetrapods.

Yukon province [capital = Whitehorse]

National Park in Kluane @
The Reserve includes the highest mountain in Canada, Mount Logan (5,959 metres or 19,551 feet) of the Saint Elias Mountains. Mountains and glaciers dominate the park's landscape, covering 83% of its area.

Tr’ondëk-Klondike in Dawson City at N64 25 57 W140 31 44 + N64 25 21 W140 32 4 + N64 25 12.6 W140 31 10.57 + N64 8 50.5 W139 29 43.1 + N64 3 39.92 W139 25 44.83 + N64 3 1.25 W139 26 23.81 + N64 5 43 W139 26 15 + N64 49 04.57 W138 21 00.31
The series illustrates different aspects of the colonization of this area, including sites of exchange between the Indigenous population and the colonists, and sites demonstrating the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in’s adaptations to colonial presence.