“From far and wide, O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.”
1. CN Tower and Toronto
2. Bruce Peninsula and Georgian Bay Islands National Parks
3. Parliament Hill, Ottawa and the Rideau Canal (the canal is a World Heritage Site)
Niagara Falls could be number 2 on this list, but they are listed on New York State page.
Pimachiowin Aki – a World Heritage Site, is listed under Manitoba below.
1. Polar Bears at Churchill
2. Riding Mountain National Park
3. Pimachiowin Aki – a World Heritage Site (part of it is in Ontario)
1. Farm fields and prairie along the Trans-Canada Highway
2. Prince Albert National Park
3. Saskatoon and the Wanuskewin Heritage Park – World Heritage Tentative List
1. Canadian Rocky Mountains Parks – a World Heritage Site: Banff and Jasper National Parks, including the Icefields Parkway, Lake Louise, and Moraine Lake (see the note at British Columbia below for additional parks in that province)
2. Calgary and the Calgary Stampede
3. Dinosaur Provincial Park – a World Heritage Site
Honorable mentions to Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump – a World Heritage Site, and Aisinai’pi/ Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park – World Heritage Tentative List
Waterton Lakes National Park – also a World Heritage Site, is counted with Glacier National Park, Montana.
Wood Buffalo National Park – also a World Heritage Site, is included in the Northwest Territories list, on the Arctic Territories page.
1. Vancouver Island’s Pacific Rim National Park and Victoria
2. SGang Gwaay – a World Heritage Site, together with Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve – World Heritage Tentative List, and Haida Heritage Site of the Queen Charlotte Islands, plus Hecate Strait and Queen Charlotte Sound Glass Sponge Reefs – World Heritage Tentative List
3. Sea-to-Sky – Highway 99: Vancouver to Whistler, and Stein Valley Nlaka’pamux Heritage Park – World Heritage Tentative List
The Canadian Rocky Mountains Parks listed above for Alberta also includes the following parks in British Columbia: Kootenay and Yoho National Parks and Hamber, Mount Assiniboine, and Mount Robson Provincial Parks.
Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Park of British Columbia is part of the Kluane/Wrangell–St. Elias/Glacier Bay/Tatshenshini-Alsek World Heritage Site – listed as number 1 on both the Yukon list and Alaska list.