List of World Heritage Sites in Canada


This is a list of World Heritage Sites in Canada. The names in the tables below are the names of the properties as used on the website of UNESCO. There are three different types of properties possible: cultural, natural, and mixed. Selection criteria i, ii, iii, iv, v, and vi are the cultural criteria, and selection criteria vii, viii, ix, and x are the natural criteria. The dates for the properties on the World Heritage List are the dates of inscription, the dates for the tentative list are those of submission. The numbers are the reference numbers as used by UNESCO, and they link directly to the description pages of the properties on the UNESCO website.

Definitions

Site – official designation of the World Heritage Committee.
Location – the province or territory where the site is located, with geocoordinates. In the case of multinational or multi-regional sites, names are sorted alphabetically after being sorted by country.
Criteria – as defined by the World Heritage Committee.
Area – in hectares and acres, followed by buffer zones if applicable. A value of zero implies that no data has been published by UNESCO.
Year – during which the site was inscribed to the World Heritage Sites list.
Description – brief information about the site, including reasons for inscription.

World Heritage Sites

Location of sites

Tentative List

The Tentative List is an inventory of important heritage and natural sites that a country is considering for inscription on the World Heritage List. The Tentative List can be updated at any time, but inclusion on the list is a prerequisite to being considered for inscription.
SiteImageLocationCriteriaArea
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Year of submissionDescription
Gwaii HaanasCanadaBritish Columbia
Mixed:
,,,,, 		2004
The park reserve contains terrestrial and marine protected areas and is a testament to the rich and living heritage of the Haida people. Site encompasses existing SGang Gwaay site nominated under cultural criterion in 1981.
Ivvavik / Vuntut / Herschel Island CanadaYukon
Mixed:
,,,, 		2004
The site comprises 15 500 km2 of wilderness on the Yukon coastal plain including important wetlands. As the area was never glaciated, it contains rich archaeological and palaeontological deposits and is a key area in the history of the peopling of the Americas. It is home to 10 per cent of the world’s caribou population.
QuttinirpaaqCanadaNunavut
Mixed:
,,, 		2004
Meaning "top of the world", Quttinirpaaq is located in the most northerly part of Canada and encompasses large amounts of Arctic desert, areas of interest to geomorphology and wildlife, and the highest mountain in eastern North America, Mount Barbeau. It also hosts the highest concentrations of pre-contact sites surveyed in the High Arctic, including sites associated with the earliest documented human inhabitants of this remote region.
Tr’ondëk-KlondikeCanadaYukon
Cultural:
, 		2004
The Klondike site is a serial cultural landscape in First Nations traditional territories, including Native fishing camps, the Chilkoot Trail, the Klondike gold fields and the historic district of Dawson. The site illustrates life before, during and after the Klondike Gold Rush of 1896-1898, the last and most renowned of the world’s great 19th century gold rushes. The site is intended as a transboundary site with associate Klondike sites in Alaska, however the American components of the proposal, including the historic district of Skagway, are not yet on the American Tentative List.
Hecate Strait and Queen Charlotte Sound Glass Sponge ReefsCanadaBritish ColumbiaNatural:
,, 		2018
Stein ValleyCanadaBritish Columbia
Cultural:
, 		2018
WanuskewinCanadaSaskatchewan
Cultural:
2018
Anticosti IslandCanadaQuebec
Natural:

2018
Heart's Content Cable Station Provincial Historic SiteCanadaNewfoundland and Labrador
Cultural:
,
QajartalikCanadaNunavut
Cultural:
2018
Sirmilik National Park and the proposed Tallurutiup Imanga National Marine Conservation AreaCanadaNunavut
Mixed:
,		2018
Yukon Ice PatchesCanadaYukon
Cultural:
, 		2018