Canada & North

Canada, Greenland, and Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Eastern Canada

“Our home and native land!” / “Terre de nos aïeux”

Newfoundland and Labrador

1. L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site (a World Heritage Site)

2. Gros Morne National Park (a World Heritage Site)

3. Red Bay National Historic Site – Basque Whaling Station (a World Heritage Site)

Honorable mentions: St. John’s (provincial capital), Mistaken Point (a World Heritage Site), and Heart’s Content Cable Station Provincial Historic Site (World Heritage Tentative List)

Town of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
Old Town Lunenburg Waterfront, Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia

1. Old Town Lunenburg (a World Heritage Site)

2. Cape Breton Highlands National Park

3. Halifax (provincial capital)

Honorable mentions:

      • Landscape of Grand Pré (a World Heritage Site)
      • Joggins Fossil Cliffs (a World Heritage Site)
      • Oak Island

Prince Edward Island

1. Prince Edward Island National Park

2. Charlottetown (provincial capital)

3. L.M. Montgomery’s Cavendish National Historic Site – Green Gables Heritage Place

Bay of Fundy's Hopewell Rocks, also known as Flowerpot Rocks
Bay of Fundy’s Hopewell Rocks, also known as Flowerpot Rocks

New Brunswick

1. Bay of Fundy

2. Hopewell Rocks

3. Fundy National Park

Honorable mention: Fredericton (provincial capital)

Château Frontenac, Quebec City
Château Frontenac, Quebec City

Quebec

1. Old Quebec City (a World Heritage Site), Quebec City (provincial capital and eighth largest metro in nation)

2. Old Montreal, Montreal (largest city in province, national second city, and second largest metro in nation)

3. Miguasha National Park (a World Heritage Site)

Honorable mention: Anticosti Island (World Heritage Tentative List)

Western Canada

“From far and wide, O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.”

CN Tower and Toronto Harbour, Toronto
CN Tower and Toronto Harbour, Toronto

Ontario

1. Toronto (provincial capital and largest metro in nation) – CN Tower

2. Bruce Peninsula and Georgian Bay Islands National Parks

3. Parliament Hill in Ottawa (national capital and sixth largest metro in nation) 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.

Note: Pimachiowin Aki (a World Heritage Site) is listed under Manitoba below

Manitoba

1. Polar Bears at Churchill

2. Riding Mountain National Park

3. Pimachiowin Aki (a World Heritage Site) – listed here, but part of it is in Ontario

Honorable mention: Winnipeg (provincial capital and seventh largest metro in nation)

Saskatchewan

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)

Honorable mention: Regina (provincial capital)

Alberta

1. Canadian Rocky Mountains Parks (a World Heritage Site)

      • Banff National Park
      • Jasper National Park

Includes: Icefields Parkway, Lake Louise, and Moraine Lake (see the note at British Columbia below for the additional parks in that province and part of this World Heritage Site)

2. Calgary (largest city in province and fourth largest metro in nation) and the Calgary Stampede

3. Dinosaur Provincial Park (a World Heritage Site)

Honorable mentions:

      • Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump (a World Heritage Site)
      • Edmonton (provincial capital and fifth largest metro in nation)
      • Aisinai’pi/Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park (World Heritage Tentative List)

Note: Waterton Lakes National Park (a World Heritage Site) is listed with Glacier National Park on the Montana page

Note: Wood Buffalo National Park (a World Heritage Site) is listed under the Northwest Territories list below

British Columbia

1. Vancouver Island’s Pacific Rim National Park and Victoria (provincial capital)

2. Queen Charlotte Islands

      • SGang Gwaay (a World Heritage Site)
      • Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve (World Heritage Tentative List) and Haida Heritage Site
      • Hecate Strait and Queen Charlotte Sound Glass Sponge Reefs (World Heritage Tentative List)

3. Vancouver (largest city in province and third largest metro in nation) and Highway 99 “Sea-to-Sky” – Vancouver to Whistler, plus the Stein Valley Nlaka’pamux Heritage Park (World Heritage Tentative List)

Note: Canadian Rocky Mountains Parks (a World Heritage Site) listed above for Alberta also includes the following parks in British Columbia: Kootenay and Yoho National Parks, plus Hamber, Mount Assiniboine, and Mount Robson Provincial Parks

Note: 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

Northern Territories

“The True North strong and free!”

Yukon

(Territory of Canada)

1. Klondike National Historic Site – Dawson City (World Heritage Tentative List)

2. Ivvavik/Vuntut/Herschel Island – Qikiqtaruk (World Heritage Tentative List)

3. Yukon Ice Patches archaeological sites (World Heritage Tentative List)

Note: Kluane/Wrangell–St. Elias/Glacier Bay/Tatshenshini-Alsek (a World Heritage Site), includes Kluane National Park and Reserve (Yukon, Canada), Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve plus Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve (Alaska, U.S.), and Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Park (British Columbia, Canada) – it is listed under Alaska, under Glacier Bay and Wrangell–St. Elias National Parks & Preserves

Northwest Territories

(Territory of Canada)

1. Wood Buffalo National Park (a World Heritage Site) – listed here, but part of it is in Alberta

2. Nahanni National Park Reserve (a World Heritage Site)

3. Tuktut Nogait National Park

Nunavut

(Territory of Canada)

1. Quttinirpaaq National Park on Ellesmere Island (World Heritage Tentative List)

2. Sirmilik National Park  on Baffin Island (World Heritage Tentative List)

3. Qajartalik petroglyph site (World Heritage Tentative List)

Greenland

Kalaallit Nunaat

(Autonomous constituent country within the Kingdom of Denmark)

1. Aurora Borealis – The Northern Lights

2. Ilulissat: Ilulissat Icefjord – a World Heritage Site, Uunartoq Hot Springs, Sermermiut Eskimo Settlement, and the Ilulissat Museum

3. Viking Ruins: Hvalsey Church, Eric the Red’s Brattahlíð, and more

Saint Pierre and Miquelon

(Overseas collectivity of France)

      • Saint-Pierre (collectivity capital), Saint Pierre Island
      • Miquelon, Miquelon-Langlade (Grande Miquelon & Petite Miquelon)

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