Year: 2013

Pyramide des Ha! Ha!

Discover Pyramide des Ha! Ha! in Saguenay, Québec: Despite its name this unique art piece was established to commemorate a tragic flood.

World’s Largest Fiddle

Discover World's Largest Fiddle in Sydney, Nova Scotia: On the waterfront of Sydney, Nova Scotia, a 60-ft. fiddle greets incoming ships.

S.S. Peralta

Discover S.S. Peralta in Powell River, British Columbia: One of the final concrete ships built before World War II is now a crumbling breakwater.

Winnipeg the Bear Statue

Discover Winnipeg the Bear Statue in Winnipeg, Manitoba: A statue in a Canadian zoo remembers the WWI origins of the beloved character Winnie-the-Pooh.

Canada’s Mac the Moose

Discover Mac the Moose in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan: The world's largest moose statue is located (where else?) in Canada.

Museum of Whales and Things

Discover Museum of Whales and Things in Port au Choix, Newfoundland and Labrador: A chaotic collection of maritime artifacts, art, and really whatever else happens to be around.

Duncan’s Cove Ruins

Discover Duncan's Cove Ruins in Duncans Cove, Nova Scotia: Explore the ruins of war and maritime history along this gorgeously ferocious North Atlantic seascape.

Canada’s Smallest Library

Discover Canada's Smallest Library in Cardigan, Prince Edward Island: While this is positively the smallest library in Canada, it aspires to be the smallest in the world.

Le Stade Olympique

Discover Le Stade Olympique in Montreal, Québec: A massive Montreal stadium that has seen nothing but trouble since its inception.

Lake on the Mountain

Discover Lake on the Mountain in Prince Edward, Ontario: A mysterious lake provides fresh water without any source, somehow restoring itself from atop its mountaintop perch.

Halifax Explosion Memorial

Discover Halifax Explosion Memorial in Halifax, Nova Scotia: The city of Halifax still bears the scars of the largest explosion prior to the atomic bomb.

Edouard Arsenault Bottle Houses

Discover Edouard Arsenault Bottle Houses in Wellington County, Prince Edward Island: Three buildings constructed of over 25,000 multicolored glass bottles.

Athabasca Sand Dunes

Discover Athabasca Sand Dunes in Saskatchewan: The most northerly active sand dunes in the world have some very rare botanical residents.

Wolfe’s Cove Tunnel

Discover Wolfe's Cove Tunnel in Québec City, Québec: Train tunnel running underneath Quebec City.

The Tablelands

Discover The Tablelands in Division No. 9, Subd. A, Newfoundland and Labrador: This rocky spread has been squeezed up directly from the bowels of the earth.

Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

Discover Sudbury Neutrino Observatory in Sudbury, Ontario: A neutrino detector built into the largest man-made underground cavity in the world.

Morrin Centre

Discover Morrin Centre in Québec City, Québec: This former prison now houses a lovely library devoted to Quebec's oft-maligned English-speaking history.

Plane Wreck of Heritage Park

Discover Plane Wreck of Heritage Park in Mission, British Columbia: Mysterious wreckage of a small plane has been lodged in this tree since at least 1971.

Canadian Potato Museum

Discover Canadian Potato Museum in O'Leary, Prince Edward Island: This sprawling collection hides many charms.

Menu

i
To represent a masterpiece of human creative genius. 261 ii
To exhibit an important interchange of human values, over a span of time or within a cultural area of the world, on developments in architecture or technology, monumental arts, town-planning or landscape design. 480 iii
To bear a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or to a civilization which is living or which has disappeared. 514 iv
To be an outstanding example of a type of building, architectural or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates (a) significant stage(s) in human history. 642 ix
To be outstanding examples representing significant on-going ecological and biological processes in the evolution and development of terrestrial, fresh water, coastal and marine ecosystems and communities of plants and animals. 137 v
To be an outstanding example of a traditional human settlement, land-use, or sea-use which is representative of a culture (or cultures), or human interaction with the environment especially when it has become vulnerable under the impact of irreversible change. 172 vi
To be directly or tangibly associated with events or living traditions, with ideas, or with beliefs, with artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance. (The Committee considers that this criterion should preferably be used in conjunction with other criteria). 256 vii
To contain superlative natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance. 151 viii
To be outstanding examples representing major stages of earth's history, including the record of life, significant on-going geological processes in the development of landforms, or significant geomorphic or physiographic features. 98 x
To contain the most important and significant natural habitats for in-situ conservation of biological diversity, including those containing threatened species of outstanding universal value from the point of view of science or conservation. 168

PP ToS