Canada
in Northern America
North America
National active POI
Bordering countries
United States
Country Quickfacts
- Currency and Currency Code:
- Dollar - CAD
- Spoken languages:
- English, French, Inuktitut
- Local electricity:
- 120 V - 60 Hz (plugs: A, B)
- Mobile phone / cellular frequencies (MHz):
- 850 MHz, 1900 MHz, 3G, 4G
- ISO 2-Letter code:
- CA
- Internet top level domain:
- .ca
- Country phone prefix:
- +1
- Local Time (capital):
- Timezone:
- UTC/GMT offset: hours
Map of Canadian Unesco Heritage Sites
Click any of the markers above to learn more about the corresponding heritage site and learn more about Canada in North America. The list below is ordered by name. The oldest site is L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site. On the list since 1978. The youngest site is Red Bay Basque Whaling Station. On the list since 2013.
| Name | Since |
|---|---|
| Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks The contiguous national parks of Banff, Jasper, Kootenay and Yoho, as well as the Mount Robson, Mount Assiniboine and Hamber provincial parks, studded with mountain peaks, glaciers, lakes, waterfalls,... |
1984 |
| Dinosaur Provincial Park In addition to its particularly beautiful scenery, Dinosaur Provincial Park – located at the heart of the province of Alberta's badlands – contains some of the most important fossil discoveries ev... |
1979 |
| Gros Morne National Park Situated on the west coast of the island of Newfoundland, the park provides a rare example of the process of continental drift, where deep ocean crust and the rocks of the earth's mantle lie exposed. ... |
1987 |
| Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump In south-west Alberta, the remains of marked trails and an aboriginal camp, and a tumulus where vast quantities of buffalo (American Bison) skeletons can still be found, are evidence of a custom pract... |
1981 |
| Historic District of Old Québec Québec was founded by the French explorer Champlain in the early 17th century. It is the only North American city to have preserved its ramparts, together with the numerous bastions, gates and defens... |
1985 |
| Joggins Fossil Cliffs The Joggins Fossil Cliffs, a 689 ha palaeontological site along the coast of Nova Scotia (eastern Canada), have been described as the “coal age Galápagos” due to their wealth of fossils from the ... |
2008 |
| Kluane / Wrangell-St. Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek These parks comprise an impressive complex of glaciers and high peaks on both sides of the border between Canada (Yukon Territory and British Columbia) and the United States (Alaska). The spectacular ... |
1979 |
| Landscape of Grand Pré Situated in the southern Minas Basin of Nova Scotia, the Grand Pré marshland and archaeological sites constitute a cultural landscape bearing testimony to the development of agricultural farmland usi... |
2012 |
| L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site At the tip of the Great Northern Peninsula of the island of Newfoundland, the remains of an 11th-century Viking settlement are evidence of the first European presence in North America. The excavated r... |
1978 |
| Miguasha National Park The palaeontological site of Miguasha National Park, in south-eastern Quebec on the southern coast of the Gaspé peninsula, is considered to be the world's most outstanding illustration of the Devonia... |
1999 |
| Nahanni National Park Located along the South Nahanni River, one of the most spectacular wild rivers in North America, this park contains deep canyons and huge waterfalls, as well as a unique limestone cave system. The par... |
1978 |
| Old Town Lunenburg Lunenburg is the best surviving example of a planned British colonial settlement in North America. Established in 1753, it has retained its original layout and overall appearance, based on a rectangul... |
1995 |
| Red Bay Basque Whaling Station Red Bay, established by Basque mariners in the 16th century at the north-eastern tip of Canada on the shore of the Strait of Belle Isle is an archaeological site that provides the earliest, most compl... |
2013 |
| Rideau Canal The Rideau Canal, a monumental early 19th-century construction covering 202 km of the Rideau and Cataraqui rivers from Ottawa south to Kingston Harbour on Lake Ontario, was built primarily for strateg... |
2007 |
| SGang Gwaay The village of Ninstints (Nans Dins) is located on a small island off the west coast of the Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii). Remains of houses, together with carved mortuary and memorial poles, ... |
1981 |
| Waterton Glacier International Peace Park In 1932 Waterton Lakes National Park (Alberta, Canada) was combined with the Glacier National Park (Montana, United States) to form the world's first International Peace Park. Situated on the border b... |
1995 |
| Wood Buffalo National Park Situated on the plains in the north-central region of Canada, the park (which covers 44,807 km2) is home to North America's largest population of wild bison. It is also the natural nesting place of th... |
1983 |