National Parks in Canada

NAME

LOCATION

AREA

DATE CREATED

Banff	Canadian Rocky Mountains; 128 km (80 mi) west of Calgary	6,641 sq km (2,564 sq mi)	1885
Elk Island	35 km (20 mi) east of Edmonton	194 sq km (75 sq mi)	1913
Jasper	226 km (141 mi) north of Lake Louise; 370 km (192 mi) west of Edmonton; 404 km (256 mi) north-west of Calgary	10,878 sq km (4,200 sq mi)	1907
Waterton Lakes	South-west Alberta; borders the Glacier National Park, Montana, United States (south), and the Akamina-Kishikena Provincial Park (west)	505 sq km (195 sq mi)	1895
Wood Buffalo	On the border between Alberta and Northwest Territories	44,802 sq km (17,298 sq mi) 1	1922
1 Total area; park covers parts of Alberta and Northwest Territories.

NAME

LOCATION

AREA

DATE CREATED

Glacier	On the Trans-Canada Highway, between the towns of Golden and Revelstoke	1,349 sq km (521 sq mi)	1886
GWaii Haanas	Southern Queen Charlotte Islands, about 640 km (400 mi) north of Vancouver	1,495 sq km (577 sq mi) 1	1987
Kootenay	Borders Assiniboine Provincial Park (east), Banff National Park (north-east), Yoho National Park (north-west)	1,406 sq km (543 sq mi)	1920
Mount Revelstoke	On the Trans-Canada Highway, between the towns of Golden and Revelstoke	260 sq km (100 sq mi)	1914
Pacific Rim	Central west coast of Vancouver Island	286 sq km (110 sq mi)	1970
Yoho	On the Trans-Canada Highway; borders the west part of the Banff National Park; 27 km (17 mi) west of Lake Louise, Alberta, and about 55 km (34 mi) east of Golden, British Columbia	1,313 sq km (507 sq mi)	1886
1 Not including an adjacent National Marine Park (3,400 sq km/1,630 sq mi).

NAME

LOCATION

AREA

DATE CREATED

Riding Mountain	95 km (59 mi) north of Brandon; 225 km (140 mi) north-west of Winnipeg	2,973 sq km (1,148 sq mi)	1929
Wapusk	East of Churchill, northern Manitoba	11,475 sq km (4,413 sq mi)	1996

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LOCATION

AREA

DATE CREATED

Fundy	West shore of the Bay of Fundy	206 sq km (80 sq mi)	1948
Kouchibouguac	Eastern coast of Kent County, 100 km (60 mi) north of Moncton	239 sq km (92 sq mi)	1979

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DATE CREATED

Gros Morne	West coast of the Island of Newfoundland	1,805 sq km (722 sq mi)	1970
Terra Nova	East coast of the Island of Newfoundland	400 sq km (154 sq mi)	1957

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LOCATION

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DATE CREATED

Aulavik	Northern Banks Island	12,000 sq km (4,710 sq mi)	1992
Nahanni	South-west Northwest Territories	4,765 sq km (1,840 sq mi)	1976
Tuktut Nogait	45 km (28 mi) east of Paulatuk, near Darnley Bay, Amundsen Gulf; borders Nunavut (east)	16,340 sq km (6,285 sq mi)	1998
Wood Buffalo	On the border between Alberta and Northwest Territories	44,802 sq km (17,298 sq mi) 1	1922
1 Total area; park covers parts of Northwest Territories and Alberta.

NAME

LOCATION

AREA

DATE CREATED

Cape Breton Highlands	Northern tip of Cape Breton Island	948 sq km (366 sq mi)	1936
Kejimkujik	South-central Nova Scotia	403 sq km (155 sq mi)	1974

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LOCATION

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DATE CREATED

Auyuittuq	North shore of the Cumberland Peninsula, Baffin Island	21,470 sq km (8,588 sq mi)	1976
Quttinirpaaq	Northern Ellesmere Island	37,775 sq km (14,586 sq mi)	1988
Sirmilik	Northern Baffin Island	22,200 sq km (8,572 sq mi)	1992 1
1 The land was set aside for national park purposes in 1992 and is currently protected under the Territorial Lands Act, awaiting official inscription.

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LOCATION

AREA

DATE CREATED

Bruce Peninsula	Bruce Peninsula, near Tobermory, north-west of Toronto; Niagara Escarpment between Lake Huron and Georgian Bay	154 sq km (59 sq mi) 1	1987
Fathom Five	Bruce Peninsula, near Tobermory, north-west of Toronto; includes 20 islands	112 sq km (43 sq mi)	1987
Georgian Bay Islands	Southern Georgian Bay; encompasses 3 groups of islands along 64 km (40 mi) of Georgian Bay coastline between Moose Deer Point and Macey Bay	25 sq km (10 sq mi)	1929
Point Pelee	50 km (30 mi) south-west of Windsor, Ontario	15 sq km (6 sq mi)	1918
Pukaskwa	Northern shore of Lake Superior	1,878 sq km (725 sq mi)	1971
St Lawrence Islands	St Lawrence River, downstream of Lake Ontario, along the Canada-United States border	9 sq km (3.5 sq mi)	1914
1 There is ongoing land acquisition programme to expand park.

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LOCATION

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DATE CREATED

Prince Edward Island	Central north coast of Prince Edward Island, bordering the Gulf of St Lawrence	22 sq km (9 sq mi) 1	1937
1 Excluding a new adjunct to the park, east of Tracadie Bay near Greenich, which opened in 2000.

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LOCATION

AREA

DATE CREATED

Forillon	Eastern end of the Gaspé Peninsula, near the town of Gaspé	240 sq km (94 sq mi)	1974
La Mauricie	200 km (125 mi) north of Montreal	536 sq km (207 sq mi)	1977
Mingan Archipelago	North shore of the Gulf of St Lawrence	150 sq km (58 sq mi)	1984
Saguenay-St Lawrence Marine Park	North of the St Lawrence River, at the convergence with the Saguenay River	1,138 sq km (438 sq mi)	1997

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LOCATION

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DATE CREATED

Grasslands	Killdeer Badlands; the Frenchman River Valley	420 sq km (162 sq mi)	1975
Prince Albert	60 km (38 mi) north of the city of Prince Albert	3,875 sq km (1,496 sq mi)	1927

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LOCATION

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DATE CREATED

Ivvavik	North-west corner of the Yukon Territory; borders the Arctic Sea (north), Vuntut National Park (south), and Alaska, United States (west)	10,168 sq km (3,926 sq mi)	1984
Kluane	South-west Yukon Territory; borders Tatshenshini-Alsek Wilderness Park, British Columbia, and St Elias Park and Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska, United States	22,013 sq km (8,500 sq mi)	1976
Vuntut	North-west of the Yukon Territory	4,345 sq km (1,671 sq mi)	1993