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Prince Edward Island National Park protects a coastal landscape of sandy beaches, red cliffs and wind-sculpted dunes. Its coastal bays, woodlands and ponds provide habitat for herons, red foxes, waterfowl and warblers.
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Photo: Tony Webster from San Francisco, California · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 2.0 · Credit & context
Sable Island National Park Reserve is a thin crescent of shifting sand at the edge of the Continental Shelf, 290 kilometres southeast of Halifax. It is home to the famous Sable Island wild horses, grey seals and plants, birds and insects, and is known as the “Graveyard of the Atlantic” for the more than 350 shipwrecks off its shores.
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Photo: Paul Gierszewski · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Credit & context
Kejimkujik National Park and National Historic Site, in southwest Nova Scotia, preserves Mi’kmaq cultural heritage, including petroglyphs and waters travelled by the Mi’kmaq for thousands of years. It is a dark-sky preserve, and its Seaside area at Port Joli protects a stretch of Atlantic coast.
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Cape Breton Highlands National Park in Nova Scotia protects a forested plateau cut by steep cliffs and deep river canyons along the Atlantic coast. About one-third of the Cabot Trail runs through the park. Its cool maritime climate and rugged landscape bring together Acadian, boreal and taiga habitats.
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Terra Nova National Park in Newfoundland is Canada’s most easterly national park, a place where land and sea meet and the island boreal forest can be explored on foot. The park protects boreal forest along the Atlantic coast.
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Akami-Uapishkᵁ-KakKasuak-Mealy Mountains National Park Reserve in Labrador covers 10,700 square kilometres and is the largest national park in eastern Canada. Its Innu and Labrador Inuit names refer to white mountains and a mountain. The bare, glacier-rounded summits of the Mealy Mountains rise 1,180 metres above Lake Melville.
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Photo: Paul Gierszewski · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Credit & context
Kouchibouguac National Park in New Brunswick is situated on unceded Mi’gmaq territory. Its landscape includes beaches, estuaries, forests and wetlands, and the park is a dark-sky preserve.
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Photo: jockrutherford from Owen Sound, ON · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 2.0 · Credit & context
Fundy National Park in New Brunswick lies on the Bay of Fundy, home of the world’s highest tides, on the unceded territory of the Mi’gmaq. Beyond the shore, where visitors can walk the sea floor at low tide, trails lead inland to waterfalls deep in Acadian forest, and the park works with partners to recover Inner Bay of Fundy Atlantic salmon.
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The Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve, on Quebec’s North Shore, holds the largest concentration of monoliths in Canada. Whales and seals swim offshore, and its thousands of islands and islets are known for arctic-alpine plants and bird colonies.
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Photo: Marc-Lautenbacher · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Credit & context
La Mauricie National Park in Quebec is both accessible and wild, open to hiking, camping, canoeing, cycling and skiing through the four seasons. It protects a territory where Indigenous knowledge, holidaymaking and logging have all left their mark, at the heart of Mauricie culture.
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Photo: Marc-Lautenbacher · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Credit & context
The Mi’gmaq and their ancestors have used the rich territory of Forillon, on Quebec’s Gaspé coast, for thousands of years. From the 18th century, cod merchants arrived, and Anglo-Norman, Irish, Scottish, French-Canadian and American families settled to take part in the fishery. The park’s cultural landscape, including the fishing village of Grande-Grave and the Cape Gaspé lighthouse, reflects this long relationship between people, land and sea.
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Photo: Ymblanter · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Credit & context
Rouge National Urban Park, in the Greater Toronto Area, is one of the largest urban parks in North America. It brings together forests, creeks, farms and trails, marshland and a beach on Lake Ontario, with human history spanning 10,000 years.
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Pukaskwa National Park protects a remote granite shore of Lake Superior in Ontario, with windswept spruce and pine, towering cliffs and secluded sandy beaches. Black bears, loons and moose live here, and the culture of the Anishinaabe First Nations links the park’s wilderness to an ancient human story.
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Photo: Hirgax · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Credit & context
Point Pelee National Park in Ontario sits at the southernmost point of mainland Canada. The park supports a rich diversity of life and is known for birdwatching.
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Georgian Bay Islands National Park lies in the world’s largest freshwater archipelago, a place with thousands of years of Indigenous history. Its ecological diversity ranges from dense deciduous forest to the granite outcrops of the Canadian Shield, and the park is reached only by boat.
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Bruce Peninsula National Park, established in 1987, is the core protected area of the UNESCO Niagara Escarpment World Biosphere Reserve and holds the longest stretch of undeveloped Niagara Escarpment and Lake Huron shoreline. Its dolomite bedrock, lakes and mixed forest form a mosaic of habitats, including globally rare alvars.
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Ukkusiksalik National Park lies along the shores of Wager Bay in Nunavut, a rolling tundra full of wildlife. Polar bears, Arctic wolves and caribou roam a landscape where hundreds of archaeological sites tell the story of Inuit who have lived and travelled here for thousands of years.
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Photo: Paul Gierszewski (Gierszep) · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Credit & context
Sirmilik National Park in Nunavut is a landscape of glaciers, valleys and red-rock hoodoos. Nesting seabirds crowd the cliffs of Bylot Island above icy waters full of narwhal and beluga whales, and the area’s rich wildlife has sustained Inuit for thousands of years.
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Photo: Ansgar Walk · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 2.5 · Credit & context
Quttinirpaaq, Inuktitut for “land at the top of the world,” is Canada’s northernmost national park, in Nunavut. Jagged black peaks and massive glaciers rise above its tundra, where muskoxen and Peary caribou roam and archaeological sites go back thousands of years.
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Qausuittuq, Inuktitut for “place where the sun doesn’t rise,” is a national park rich in natural and cultural heritage in Nunavut’s High Arctic. Managed jointly by Inuit and Parks Canada, it protects key habitat for Peary caribou.
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Photo: Paul Gierszewski · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Credit & context
Auyuittuq National Park, on southeastern Baffin Island in Nunavut, is named with the Inuktitut words for “the land that never melts.” The peaks of Akshayuk Pass overlook a natural corridor through sprawling glaciers, steep fiords and winding river valleys, in a landscape rich in Inuit culture and history.
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Photo: Doc Searls from Santa Barbara, USA · Photo licence: CC BY 2.0 · Credit & context
Prince Albert National Park in central Saskatchewan shows the ecological diversity of the transition between prairie fescue grasslands and the lakes and wetlands of the mixed-wood boreal forest.
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Photo: Kyla Duhamel from Saskatoon, Canada · Photo licence: CC BY 2.0 · Credit & context
Grasslands National Park protects a stretch of southern Saskatchewan prairie. Among today’s living prairie lie traces of the deep past and of those who came before: dinosaur fossils, the mass extinction boundary, hearth sites, tipi rings, bison drive lanes and the cellar depressions of homesteads.
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Photo: Claude Charbonneau · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Credit & context
Wapusk National Park in northern Manitoba covers 11,475 square kilometres where boreal forest gives way to Arctic tundra, and protects one of the world’s largest polar bear maternity denning areas. It is on Treaty 5 territory and lands traditionally used by the Cree, Dene, Inuit and Red River Métis, and visits are made through licensed tour operators in Churchill.
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Photo: Peterfitzgerald · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 3.0 · Credit & context