Alberta

Banff

• Website: http://www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/ab/banff/index_E.asp
• Location: In the Canadian Rockies west of Calgary
• Area: 6,641 km² (2,564 mi²)
• Proclaimed: 1885
• Historical:
  1. UNESCO World Heritage Site
  2. Banff Park Museum National Historic Site of Canada
  3. Cave and Basin National Historic Site of Canada
  4. Abbot Pass Refuge Cabin National Historic Site of Canada
• Features:
  1. Bow Lake
  2. Lake Louise
  3. Lake Minnewanka
  4. Moraine Lake
  5. Johnson Canyon
  6. Banff Springs Hotel
  7. Flora and Fauna

Elk Island

• Website: http://www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/ab/elkisland/index_E.asp
• Location: A short distance east of Edmonton along Highway #16
• Area: 194 km² (75 mi²)
• Proclaimed: Wildlife park in 1906, Dominion Park in 1913, and a national park in 1930
• Historical:
  1. The Ukrainian Pioneer Home a federal heritage building
• Features:
  1. Herds of bison and elk
  2. Flora and Fauna

Jasper

• Website: http://www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/ab/jasper/index_E.asp
• Location: In the Canadian Rockies west of Edmonton
• Area: 10,878 km² (4,200 mi²)
• Proclaimed: 1907
• Historical:
  1. UNESCO World Heritage Site
• Features:
  1. Athabasca Falls
  2. Columbia Icefield
  3. Icefields Parkway
  4. Maligne Lake
  5. Miette Hot Springs
  6. Mount Edith Cavell
  7. Flora and Fauna

Waterton Lakes

• Website: http://www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/ab/waterton/index_E.asp
• Location: Southwest corner of the province, bordering British Columbia and Montana
• Area: 525 sq.km (203 sq. miles)
• Proclaimed: Dominion Forest Park (now known as Waterton Lakes National Park) in 1895 and joined with Montana’s Glacier National Park to form the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park in 1932
• Historical:
  1. Canada’s second biosphere reserve in 1979
• Features:
  1. Cameron Falls
  2. Red Rock Canyon
  3. Prince of Wales Hotel
  4. Flora and Fauna

Wood Buffalo

• See: Northwest Territories.