(Number, 11; total area, 7945 square miles)
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| |_Date of |_Area in| _Distinctive
_Name of |_Location_|creation_| square | characteristics_
park_ | | | miles_ |
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Rocky | Alberta | 1886 | 1800 |Scenic park; Banff Hot
Mountains| | | | Springs; Hoodoos; Lake
Park | | | | Louise; Victoria and Lefroy
| | | | Glaciers; Lakes in the
| | | | Clouds; Mount Temple, 11,626
| | | | feet; Valley of the Ten
| | | | Peaks; Mt. Assiniboine,
| | | | 11,860 feet; Bow River
| | | | Valley.
| | | |
Yoho | British | 1886 | 560 |Yoho Valley; Lakes O'Hara and
Park | Columbia | | | MacArthur; Takakkaw Falls;
| | | | Twin Lakes; Emerald Lake;
| | | | Natural Bridge; President
| | | | Range and Glacier;
| | | | Kickinghorse River,
| | | | Ottertail Range and Valley;
| | | | Fossil Beds.
| | | |
Glacier | British | 1886 | 468 |Mount Sir Donald and highest
Park | Columbia | | | peaks of the Selkirks; great
| | | | Illecillewaet and Asulkan
| | | | Glaciers; Nakimu marble
| | | | caves; Marion Lake, Rogers
| | | | Pass.
| | | |
Revelstoke| British | 1914 | 95 |Mount Revelstoke;
Park | Columbia | | | Clach-na-coodin Range and
| | | | Ice-Field; Automobile Road
| | | | building to summit of Mount
| | | | Revelstoke; Lake Eva.
| | | |
Jasper | Alberta | 1907 | 4400 |Athabasca River and Valley;
Park | | | | Yellowhead Pass; the oldest
| | | | route across the Rockies;
| | | | historic associations;
| | | | Maligne Lake and Cañon;
| | | | Fiddle Creek Cañon;
| | | | Punchbowl Falls; Mount
| | | | Robson, 13,036 feet, and
| | | | highest peaks of the
| | | | Canadian Rockies; Miette
| | | | Hot Springs.
| | | |
Waterton | Alberta | 1895 | 423 |Waterton Lakes; Cameron
Lakes | | | | Falls, Bertha and Beaver
Park | | | | Lakes; beautiful Wilson
| | | | Range; exceptional fishing;
| | | | great game preserve.
| | | |
St. | Ontario | 1905 | 140 |Among the Thousand Islands
Lawrence | | | acres | of the St. Lawrence;
Islands | | | | especially for summer
Park | | | | campers.
| | | |
Fort Howe | New | 1913 | 19 |Historic park; old fort;
Park | Brunswick| | acres | memorials of United Empire
| | | | Loyalists, French régime,
| | | | Lady Latour.
| | | |
Buffalo | Alberta | 1907 | 162 |Animal park; home of the
Park | | | | Canadian government buffalo
| | | | herd, numbering over 2000
| | | | head.
| | | |
Elk Island| Alberta | 1899 | 16 |Animal park; established for
Park | | | | the protection of the elk,
| | | | moose, deer; also herd of
| | | | buffalo.
| | | |
Maple |Saskatchewan| 1914 | 19 |Animal park; established for
Creek | | | | the preservation of the
Antelope | | | | antelope.
Reserve | | | |
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