This article lists the sites registered with World Heritage to Canada.
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| Well | Region / city | Type | Description | Drawing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Historic district of Old Quebec (Quebec city (Quebec)) | Cultural | (iv) (vi) | Founded by French explorer Champlain at the start of the 17th century, Quebec remains the only city in North America to have preserved its ramparts which include numerous bastions, gates and defensive works still encircling Old Quebec. The Upper Town, located at the top of the cliff, religious and administrative center, with its churches, convents and other monuments such as the Dauphine redoubt, the Citadel and the Château Frontenac, and the Lower Town, with its old quarters, form an urban ensemble which is one of the best examples of a fortified colonial city. |  |
| Rideau Canal | Eastern Ontario (Ontario) | Cultural good | The oldest canal system still in operation in North America |  |
| Joggins Fossil Cliffs | Mining Basin (New Scotland) | Very natural | Cliffs bathed by the Bay of Fundy nicknamed "Carboniferous Galapagos" because of the large amount of fossils they contain |  |
| Kluane / Wrangell-St Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek | Northern British Columbia (British Columbia) and Yukon Also extends into Alaska to United States | Very natural | Set of glaciers and high peaks |  |
| The landscape of Grand-Pré | Large meadow (New Scotland) | Cultural good | Natural landscape including the Grand-Pré marshes and archaeological sites |  |
| Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump | Southern Alberta (Alberta) | Cultural good | Foothills in Rocky Mountains rising above the Meadows |  |
| Old Lunenburg | Lunenburg (New Scotland) | Cultural good | Example of colonial settlement British in North America |  |
| 2 L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site | Cultural | (vi) | At the tip of the Great Northern Peninsula of the island of Newfoundland, the remains of a Viking settlement from the XIe century confirm the first European presence in North America. The unearthed remains of peat-clod buildings between timber frames are similar to those found in Greenland and Iceland. |  |
| Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park | Southern Alberta (Alberta) Also extends to Montana to United States | Very natural | The world's first international peace park |  |
| Miguasha National Park | Gaspesie (Quebec) | Very natural | Fossiliferous site |  |
| Gros Morne National Park | Western Newfoundland (Newfoundland and Labrador) | Very natural | National park comprising the second highest peak on the island of Newfoundland |  |
| Nahanni National Park | Nahanni region (Northwest Territories) | Very natural | National park reserve comprising a portion of the MacKenzie Mountains and the South Nahanni River |  |
| Wood Buffalo National Park | Rivière-de-la-Paix Valley (Alberta) and wood bison region (Northwest Territories) | Very natural | One of the largest parks in the world |  |
| Dinosaur Provincial Park Badlands (Alberta) | Natural | (vii) (viii) | In addition to its breathtaking scenery, the park, located in the heart of the badlands of the province of Alberta, contains the most significant remains ever to be found from the “Age of the Reptiles”. In particular, these are around 35 species of dinosaurs dating back some 75 million years. |  |
| Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks Alberta Rockies (Alberta), Kootenays and Northern British Columbia (British Columbia) | Natural | (vii) (viii) | Contiguous Banff, Jasper, Kootenay and Yoho National Parks, as well as Mount Robson, Mount Assiniboine and Hamber Provincial Parks, dotted with peaks, glaciers, lakes, waterfalls, canyons and limestone caves, offer particularly remarkable mountainous landscapes. There is also the Burgess Shale fossil deposit, renowned for its fossilized remains of soft-bodied marine animals. |  |
| SGang Gwaay | North and Central Coast of British Columbia (British Columbia) | Cultural good | Remains of houses and burial poles of the North American Indian people of the Haida located on an island in the archipelago Haida Gwaii |  |
| Red Bay Basque whaling station | Labrador (Newfoundland and Labrador) | Cultural good | Land and underwater archaeological site of a whaling station Basque XVIe century |  |
| Mistaken point | Avalon Peninsula (Newfoundland and Labrador) | Very natural | This fossil site is located at the southeastern end of the island of Newfoundland, in the east of the country. It consists of a narrow strip of 17 km long, formed by rugged coastal cliffs. Originating from the seabed, these cliffs, which date from the Ediacaran period (580-560 million years), present the oldest known assemblages of large fossils. These fossils represent a critical turning point in the history of life on Earth: the emergence of large, biologically complex organisms after almost three billion years of evolution dominated by microorganisms. |  |
