May - New Beginnings

Running in the water of the Saguenay-St. Lawrence Marine Park!
© Parks Canada / N. Boisvert

This month, Parks Canada is celebrating 100 years since the creation of the Dominion Parks Branch. Our theme, New Beginnings, highlights not only our beginnings in 1911, and the innovations that have made the agency a leader in the century since its creation, but also the present and future initiatives that we are and will be putting forward. Moreover, we will also introduce you to the development of our newest network of protected places: the national marine conservation areas (NMCA).

Celebrate...
Parks Canada’s 
Superlatives! 

Dive in... 
our National Marine Conservation Areas!

Discover...
Archaeology in our National Marine
Conservation Areas!

• Check out Parks Canada’s Superlatives: a list of our achievements, firsts, etc. and read about the creation of the world's first national park service in the Canadian Register of Historic Places. 
• Follow us in an exciting adventure and discover Canada’s national marine conservation areas (NMCA). A whole new world is there for you to discover, a world where blue is the color... a world that belongs to all of us and to those who will follow.
  How are NMCAs established?
  Fathom Five
  Saguenay-St.-Lawrence
  Lake Superior 
  Gwaii Haanas  
  Lancaster Sound Proposal 
  Southern Strait of Georgia Proposal 
  The Beluga and its Melon Head 
  Nudibranchs! 
  Marine Biodiversity 
  Sea Search Your House!
• NEW! Do not miss our wallpapers, illustrating our national marine conservation areas, and download those dreamy pictures for free! 
• Read our This Week in History feature, which presents past events in relation to our marine areas: 
  Jacques Cartier searches for "The Kingdom of the Saguenay"
  Canada Creates World’s First National Parks Service  
• Learn what Parks Canada has found under and around Canada's national marine conservations areas. Archaeology at its best!
• Read a short diary excerpt of an imaginary well-to-do British woman travelling through and close to the stunning waters of marine areas across Canada in 1911. You can also visit historic places near national marine conservation areas by searching historicplaces.ca.

See our selection of desktop wallpapers!