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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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Photo: The Cosmonaut · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 2.5 ca · Credit & context
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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Photo: Cybergoth · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Credit & context
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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Photo: Ansgar Walk · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 2.5 · Credit & context
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
Riding Mountain National Park in Manitoba is home to a striking diversity of life: windswept grasslands and deep forests, wolf packs, orchids and lilies, and lakes and wetlands. The park is in Treaty 2 Territory, and Parks Canada works there with Anishinabe First Nations from Treaties 2, 4 and 1.
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Photo: Norm Andreiw · Photo licence: CC BY 3.0 · Credit & context
Thaıdene Nëné, “The Land of the Ancestors” in Dënesųłiné Yati, is an Indigenous Protected Area of more than 26,000 square kilometres in the Northwest Territories, with Thaıdene Nëné National Park Reserve at its core. Here barrens and subarctic boreal forest meet on the shore of one of the world’s largest freshwater lakes. The park reserve is managed jointly with the Łutsël K’é Dene First Nation, the Northwest Territory Métis Nation, the Deninu Kųę First Nation and the Yellowknives Dene First Nation.
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Photo: Paul Gierszewski · Photo licence: CC BY 4.0 · Credit & context
Nááts'įhch'oh National Park Reserve in the Northwest Territories is named for the mountain Nááts'įhch'oh, a powerful place for the people of the Sahtu. Near the Yukon border, in the traditional lands of the Shúhtaot'ine (Mountain Dene), it is home to grizzly bears, Dall’s sheep, mountain goats and woodland caribou.
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Photo: Paul Gierszewski · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Credit & context
Aulavik, meaning “place where people travel” in Inuvialuktun, protects more than 12,000 square kilometres of Arctic lowlands on northern Banks Island in the Northwest Territories. Its landscapes range from fertile river valleys to polar deserts, badlands, rolling hills and seacoasts.
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Photo: Paul Gierszewski · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Credit & context
Vuntut National Park lies above the Arctic Circle in northern Yukon, a remote wilderness with a First Nations history going back millennia. It includes part of the Old Crow Flats, a vast wetland of shallow lakes and streams important to the Vuntut Gwitchin for hunting and traditional practices, and the range of the Porcupine caribou herd, which is central to Vuntut Gwitchin culture.
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Photo: Paul Gierszewski · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Credit & context
Kluane National Park and Reserve protects a landscape of high mountain peaks and massive valley glaciers in southwest Yukon, along with boreal forests, lakes such as Kathleen Lake, northern wildlife and Southern Tutchone cultural heritage.
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Photo: Monacro · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Credit & context
Ivvavik National Park, in the far northwest of Yukon above the Arctic Circle, takes its name from the Inuvialuktun word for “a place for giving birth, a nursery.” It was the first national park in Canada created through an Indigenous land claim agreement, the Inuvialuit Final Agreement of 1984, and it protects part of the calving grounds of the Porcupine caribou herd.
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Photo: Daniel Case · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 3.0 · Credit & context
Yoho National Park in British Columbia lies on the western slopes of the Great Divide, where glaciers and waterfalls cling to towering peaks. The park protects Burgess Shale fossil sites, which reveal ancient marine life, in a landscape shaped by water.
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Photo: Soumya.deo · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Credit & context
Mount Revelstoke National Park protects part of the Columbia Mountains in British Columbia’s interior wet belt. It contains old-growth cedar and hemlock forest and provides habitat for grizzly bears and mountain goats.
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Photo: DXR · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Credit & context
Pacific Rim National Park Reserve lies along the west coast of Vancouver Island, in the traditional territories of the Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations. It offers kilometres of long sandy beaches and temperate rainforest, and includes the Long Beach area, the Broken Group Islands and the West Coast Trail.
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Photo: EcaterinaLitvin · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Credit & context
Kootenay National Park in British Columbia is a place of contrasts, with valleys and canyons carved by glaciers and grasslands shaped by fire. A historic highway crosses the park, and visitors can see ancient fossils and soak in mineral-rich hot springs.
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Photo: Chris Woodrich · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Credit & context
Gulf Islands National Park Reserve protects parts of British Columbia’s southern Gulf Islands in the Salish Sea, off the east coast of Vancouver Island. Eagles and seabirds soar overhead, and the sheltered, islet-dotted waters hold seals, otters, orcas and porpoises. The park reserve has rare ecosystems and a Mediterranean-like climate.
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Photo: Michal Klajban · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Credit & context
Glacier National Park in British Columbia, together with Mount Revelstoke National Park, represents the Columbia Mountains Natural Region in Canada’s national park system. The Columbia ranges form the first tall mountain barrier east of the Coast Mountains, and the park’s alpine country and old-growth interior rainforest give habitat to many animals.
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Photo: Mike · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 2.0 · Credit & context