World Heritage Sites of Canada (Grades 9-11)

Selected Resources

Parks Canada Web site

World Heritage: Canada

• Canada's Existing World Heritage Sites

Teacher's Corner

• Commemorating Canada's History:
  • People, Places, and Events:
    • Search the keywords "Buffalo Jump", "Old Town Lunenburg", "Québec" (Fortifications of Québec)
    • Search the theme "Exploration" for "L'Anse aux Meadows
• Images of Parks Canada

This Week In History Archives

• "A National Park is Abolished"
• "Conquering Mount Logan"
• "Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump"
• "The British Colony that Wasn't British"
• "Vikings in Canada"

What's New

• News Releases
  Search the keywords "UNESCO", "World Heritage"
  • Kluane/Wrangell-St-Elias/Glacier Bay/Tatshenshini-Alsek
  • L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site of Canada
  • Miguasha Park
  • Nahanni National Park Reserve of Canada
  • Old Town Lunenburg
  • UNESCO in Canada
  • Waterton Glacier International Peace Park

Check the bottom of the news releases for associated backgrounders.

Click here to view a larger version of this image. (This image is larger than 450 pixels) Waterton Glacier International Park, Waterton Lakes National Park of Canada, Parks Canada, photographer: J. Yee" © Parks Canada

Video

• Places in Time Includes images of and information about Banff National Park, Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, Historic District of Québec, Old Town Lunenburg Historic District

Other Resources

• Canada: A People's History http://history.cbc.ca
• Historica www.histori.ca
• UNESCO http://whc.unesco.org