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Canada has 22 World Heritage Sites (10 cultural, 11 natural, 1 mixed), the 14th most in the world (tied with Türkiye). Hover over or tap a dot to see its name; click a name in the list to show it on the map. Listed by year of inscription.
- Nahanni National Park Nahanni National Park, in Canada's Northwest Territories, lies along the South Nahanni River, one of North America's most spectacular wild rivers. It has deep canyons, huge waterfalls and a distinctive limestone cave system, with boreal forest animals such as wolves, grizzly bears and caribou, and Dall's sheep and mountain goats in the alpine areas.
- L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site L'Anse aux Meadows, at the tip of the Great Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland in Canada, preserves the remains of an 11th-century Viking settlement, evidence of the first European presence in North America. The excavated wood-framed peat-turf buildings resemble those found in Norse Greenland and Iceland.
- Dinosaur Provincial Park Dinosaur Provincial Park lies in the badlands of Alberta, Canada, and has yielded some of the most important fossil discoveries from the Age of Reptiles, including more than 50 species of dinosaur dating back some 75 million years.
- Kluane / Wrangell-St. Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek This property is made up of Kluane, Wrangell-St. Elias, Glacier Bay and Tatshenshini-Alsek parks, a complex of glaciers and high peaks on both sides of the border between Canada (Yukon and British Columbia) and the United States (Alaska). It supports many grizzly bears, caribou and Dall's sheep, and contains the largest non-polar icefield in the world.
- SGang Gwaay SGang Gwaay is the village site of Ninstints (Nans Dins) on a small island off the west coast of Haida Gwaii (the Queen Charlotte Islands) in Canada. Remains of houses and carved mortuary and memorial poles illustrate Haida art and way of life, and give a visual key to Haida oral traditions.
- Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump in south-west Alberta, Canada, preserves marked trails, an Indigenous camp and a mound with great quantities of bison bones, evidence of a practice of the aboriginal peoples of the North American plains lasting nearly 6,000 years. Using their knowledge of terrain and bison behaviour, they drove bison over a precipice and butchered the carcasses in the camp below.
- Wood Buffalo National Park Wood Buffalo National Park covers 44,807 km² of plains in north-central Canada and is home to North America's largest population of wild bison. It is also the natural nesting place of the whooping crane, and includes one of the world's largest inland deltas, at the mouth of the Peace and Athabasca rivers.
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks The Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks comprise the adjoining Banff, Jasper, Kootenay and Yoho national parks and the Mount Robson, Mount Assiniboine and Hamber provincial parks, in Alberta and British Columbia. The mountain landscape has peaks, glaciers, lakes, waterfalls, canyons and limestone caves, and includes the Burgess Shale, known for fossils of soft-bodied marine animals.
- Historic District of Old Québec Québec was founded by the French explorer Champlain in the early 17th century and is the only North American city to have kept its ramparts, with bastions, gates and defensive works still surrounding the old city. The Upper Town, on the cliff, has remained the religious and administrative centre, with churches, convents, the Citadel and Château Frontenac; with the Lower Town it forms one of the best examples of a fortified colonial city.
- Gros Morne National Park Gros Morne National Park, on the west coast of Newfoundland, Canada, is a rare example of continental drift in action, with deep ocean crust and mantle rocks exposed. Later glaciation created coastal lowlands, an alpine plateau, fjords, glacial valleys, sheer cliffs, waterfalls and many pristine lakes.
- Waterton Glacier International Peace Park Waterton Glacier International Peace Park was formed in 1932 by combining Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta, Canada, with Glacier National Park in Montana, United States, as the world's first International Peace Park. It straddles the border, with outstanding scenery and rich plant and mammal life across prairie, forest, alpine and glacial landscapes.
- Old Town Lunenburg Old Town Lunenburg, in Nova Scotia, Canada, is the best surviving example of a planned British colonial settlement in North America. Established in 1753, it has kept its original rectangular grid layout and overall appearance, and its inhabitants have preserved the wooden houses, some dating from the 18th century.
- Miguasha National Park Miguasha National Park, in south-eastern Quebec on the southern coast of the Gaspé peninsula, is considered the world's most outstanding illustration of the Devonian Period, the Age of Fishes. The 370-million-year-old Escuminac Formation holds five of the six fossil fish groups of the period and the highest number and best-preserved specimens of lobe-finned fishes, from which the first four-legged air-breathing land vertebrates arose.
- Rideau Canal The Rideau Canal in Ontario, built in the early 19th century, runs 202 km along the Rideau and Cataraqui rivers from Ottawa south to Kingston Harbour on Lake Ontario, and was built mainly for strategic military purposes. It was one of the first canals designed for steam-powered vessels, is the best-preserved slackwater canal in North America, and has an ensemble of fortifications.
- Joggins Fossil Cliffs The Joggins Fossil Cliffs, a 689 ha palaeontological site on the coast of Nova Scotia, have been called the coal age Galápagos for their wealth of Carboniferous fossils (354 to 290 million years old). The rocks form the world's thickest and most comprehensive record of Pennsylvanian strata, with the most complete known fossil record of terrestrial life of that time, including remains and tracks of very early animals.
- Landscape of Grand Pré The Landscape of Grand Pré, in the southern Minas Basin of Nova Scotia, is a marshland and archaeological landscape showing the development of farmland using dykes and the aboiteau sluice system, begun by the Acadians in the 17th century and continued by later settlers and present-day inhabitants. Over 1,300 ha, it includes a large expanse of polder farmland and archaeological elements of the towns of Grand Pré and Hortonville.
- Red Bay Basque Whaling Station Red Bay, on the Strait of Belle Isle at the north-eastern tip of Canada, was established by Basque mariners in the 16th century and is an archaeological site giving the earliest, most complete and best-preserved testimony of the European whaling tradition. Founded in the 1530s as Gran Baya, it was a base for hunting, butchering, rendering whale fat and storage, and supplied whale oil shipped to Europe for lighting.
- Mistaken Point Mistaken Point is a fossil site at the south-eastern tip of Newfoundland in eastern Canada, a narrow 17 km strip of rugged coastal cliffs. The deep-marine rocks date to the Ediacaran Period (580-560 million years ago) and hold the oldest known assemblages of large fossils, marking the appearance of large, complex organisms after almost three billion years of microbe-dominated life.
- Pimachiowin Aki Pimachiowin Aki, meaning the land that gives life, is a landscape of rivers, lakes, wetlands and boreal forest in central Canada, part of the ancestral home of the Anishinaabeg. It covers the traditional lands of four Anishinaabeg communities and is an exceptional example of the tradition of keeping the land, which honours the gifts of the Creator and respects all forms of life.
- Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai'pi lies on the northern edge of the semi-arid Great Plains, on the Canada-United States border, in Alberta. The Milk River Valley is marked by hoodoos, rock columns eroded into striking shapes, and the Blackfoot Confederacy left engravings and paintings on its sandstone walls, with dated archaeological remains covering about 4,500 years.
- Tr’ondëk-Klondike Tr'ondëk-Klondike lies along the Yukon River in the sub-arctic of north-western Canada, within the homeland of the Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in First Nation. Its archaeological and historic sources reflect Indigenous adaptation to the upheavals of the Klondike Gold Rush at the end of the 19th century, including sites of exchange with colonists and sites showing Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in adaptation to the colonial presence.
- Anticosti Anticosti, the largest island in Quebec, Canada, holds the most complete and best-preserved palaeontological record of the first mass extinction of animal life, 447-437 million years ago, with marine fossils covering ten million years. The abundance, diversity and quality of preservation of the fossils, and the large exposed bedding surfaces, allow world-class scientific study of animals of the shallow sea floor.