Year: 2013

Boswell Embalming Bottle House

Discover Boswell Embalming Bottle House in Sanca, British Columbia: This house was largely built out of hundreds of thousands of discarded glass embalming fluid bottles.

Pingualuit Crater Lake

Discover Pingualuit Crater Lake in Rivière-Koksoak, Québec: A lake in the middle of the tundra of Quebec is said to be the purest freshwater lake on Earth.

Red Sands of Prince Edward Island

Discover Red Sands of Prince Edward Island in Lower Darnley, Prince Edward Island: Rusty red sands line the shores of this Canadian Province.

Oratoire St. Joseph

Discover Oratoire St. Joseph in Montreal, Québec: City law dictates that this mountaintop cathedral containing the heart of a saint is to remain the tallest building in town.

Banff Merman

Discover Banff Merman in Banff, Alberta: A mysterious taxidermy man-beast of the seven seas.

Trou de la Fée – Protected Bat Cave

Discover Trou de la Fée – Protected Bat Cave in Saint-André-du-Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec: This three-chambered cave is the only protected natural bat hibernaculum in Quebec.

The Yorkville Rock

Discover The Yorkville Rock in Toronto, Ontario: This massive, ancient stone was disassembled and then put back together again.

Toronto PATH

Discover Toronto PATH in Toronto, Ontario: One of the largest underground systems runs under Canada's largest urban center.

Insectarium of Montreal

Discover Insectarium of Montreal in Montreal, Québec: The biggest museum dedicated to insects in North America, one of the largest in the world.

Marché Bonsecours

Discover Marché Bonsecours in Montreal, Québec: A historic Montreal market that was the city's agricultural hub for over century.

Gibeau Orange Julep

Discover Gibeau Orange Julep in Montreal, Québec: The skyline of Montreal includes the silhouette of an unexpected fruit-shaped Canadian staple.

Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery

Discover Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery in Montreal, Québec: Canada's largest graveyard boasts a lot of noteworthy artifacts as well as its own computerized mapping service.

The Gibraltar Point Lighthouse

Discover The Gibraltar Point Lighthouse in Toronto, Ontario: The oldest landmark of Toronto is a testament to shifting sands.

Sable Island

Discover Sable Island in Halifax, Nova Scotia: This crescent-shaped sliver of sand is a magical haven for a herd of feral horses.

Bloedel Conservatory

Discover Bloedel Conservatory in Vancouver, British Columbia: This conservatory allows a little bit of the tropics to thrive in the middle of a major Canadian city.

Marché Jean-Talon

Discover Marché Jean-Talon in Montreal, Québec: Montreal's giant farmer's market is a foodie's best friend, especially in the winter months.

Notre Dame Basilica

Discover Notre Dame Basilica in Montreal, Québec: A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

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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

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