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The Great Canadian National Park Thread

There are dozens of national jewels spread across this great country of ours. Parks touch everyone of us at some point in our lives and this thread is created to spread the stories and photos we may have of the national jewels.

To start off here is an article on the newest addition to this national legacy some 300km off the coast of Nova Scotia;

Sable Island to become national park
By OUR STAFF
Tue. May 18 - 1:48 PM

Sable Island will be designated a national park, the Nova Scotia and federal governments announced today.

"The national park designation gives Sable Island the highest level of protection of its natural and cultural features," Nova Scotia's Natural Resources Minister John MacDonell said in a news release.

"The next step is to hear from Mi'kmaq and others as we work with the federal government on an agreement to conserve and manage the island for present and future generations."

MacDonell made the announcement with Jim Prentice, the minister responsible for Parks Canada, that the ecologically sensitive island will soon have the protections of a national park under the Canada National Parks Act.

"In this the International Year of Biodiversity, what better way to celebrate than by ensuring the long-lasting protection of Sable Island, its majestic horses and some of the rarest birds and wildlife in Canada by designating it a national park?" Prentice said in the release.

Conservation groups wrote to both levels of government last Friday, urging them to protect Sable Island. The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, Ecology Action Centre and Sable Island Green Horse Society said they want the island to become a national park.

The groups have growing concerns that more people will visit the island, which could endanger the wildlife and ecosystem.

"Nobody wants to see Sable Island turned into a theme park or even one of the national parks that’s overrun with visitors," Chris Miller, national manager for wilderness society, a non-governmental society that tries to protect natural landscapes, told The Chronicle Herald last week.

Describing the island as "precious" and "iconic," he said the groups believe capping the number of visitors is vital and that the national park designation would make that easier.


Public consultations on the conservation, management and operational issues with the island as a national park will begin soon, the release says.

In January, both levels of government created the Canada-Nova Scotia Sable Island Task Group to recommend whether the island should get a national park designation or be a national wildlife area. That group, consisting of Parks Canada, Environment Canada and Nova Scotia's Department of Natural Resources, recommended the national park designation.

The island is home to many at-risk species, including most of the world population of the Ipswich Savannah sparrow. It is also home to 150 to 400 wild horses, numerous migrant and breeding birds, harbour seals and the world's largest congregation of breeding grey seals.


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Cool! Couple shots from Banff National Park, Canada's first, and catalyst of the national park system, including the obligatory Peyto Lake money shot....


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^According to a news release I was reading for Sable Island, Banff NP is 125 years old this year.
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^According to a news release I was reading for Sable Island, Banff NP is 125 years old this year.
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Parc National Forillon, Gaspésie


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(for those who don't know, that's where Jacques Cartier claimed this land for France on July 24, 1534)



you can see Bonaventure Island (left), and Rocher Percé (just right of the tree), about 40km away!











Downtown Gaspé, QC


sorry if it's blurry, but I had to include this shot of Rocher Percé








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Auyuittuq National Park - Nunavut



The mountain you see in the far background is Mt. Thor, which has the longest vertical drop in the world.

Nahanni National Park Reserve - Northwest Territories





Was one of the first four natural heritage sites declared as World Heritage Sites by UNESCO in 1978.

Gros Morne National Park - Newfoundland





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Stunning. Wish I had digital shots of one of my favorites, Pacific Rim National Park (Reserve), Vancouver Island.
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Emerald Lake Yoho National Park


Red Rock Canyon Area Waterton Lakes NP

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