The UNESCO List of World Heritage Websites

The UNESCO List of World Heritage Websites considers 830

properties world wide for the reason that having outstanding universal

value, 13 of those are in located in Canada, in addition to 5 of

those are in Alberta.

1 . Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump.

For hundreds of years the native people of To the north

America used the Buffalo to provide them with life's

necessities, meat, clothing, shield, tools and fires.

They stampeded herds over large cliffs plus butchered

them at the bottom where they had camps set up. The

skeletal remains, at places more than 30 ft deep, are

still there. On the butchering camp the remnants of meat

caches and cooking pits are on top of layers associated with bones.

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump is known around the world

as a remarkable testimony of prehistoric life.

2 . Dinosaur Provincial Park

The first time we traveled through Alberta, the

landscape suddenly changed. We felt like we had

literally arrived on the moon. A feeling shared by many.

Strange land formations rise up on all sides, sculpted

by wind flow and water into beautiful forms sunbathed in

terra cotta, bronze and amber. A trip to Dinosaur

Provincial Park is a 75 million-year trip back in time.

This region has been then a subtropical paradise populated simply by

turtles, crocodiles and sharks. Here dinosaurs once

hunted and combined, and ultimately met their death,

leaving an amazingly rich fossil and bone record for us

to discover today. Dinosaur Provincial Park -- a world

heritage site like nowhere else on earth!

3	Wood Buffalo National Park

With 44, 807 square kms, Wood Buffalo is Canada's

biggest national park. It was established within 1922 to

protect the last left over herds of bison in north

Canada. Today, it protects app themes Canada's Northern Boreal

Plains. The largest free-roaming, self-regulating bison

herds in the world, the only real remaining nesting ground of

the endangered whooping crane, the biologically rich

Peace-Athabasca Delta, extensive salt plains, and some

of the finest types of gypsum karst topography in

United states.

4	Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks

Seven parks in the Canadian Rocky Mountains have some of

the best-known hill scenery on Earth. More than nine

million people annually visit the seven preserves along

the Alberta-British Columbia edge. There are four

national parks in the ensemble -- Banff, Jasper, Yoho and

Kootenay. They account for most of the preserve's 22, 990

square kms. Adjoining them are three British

Columbia provincial parks -- Mount Robson, Mount

Assiniboine and Hamber.

The particular park has a wealth of natural wonders: jagged peaks

and conifer-clad slopes, silt-laden glacial streams and

turquoise lakes, the vast Columbia Icefield and the

complex Castleguard Caves. The Burgess Shale, in Yoho,

contains one of the world's most significant discovers of

soft-bodied, Middle Cambrian-age sea fossils, with

about 150 varieties, including some bearing no resemblance

to known animals.

5 Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park

The rushed rise of the Rockies from the prairie

flatlands has made the twin recreational areas the place "where the

mountains satisfy the prairie. " Nature has provided a lot

that is worthy of protection: high hills and deep

canyons, forest belts and prairie grasslands, deep

glacial-trough lakes and rivers that feed three seas.

Diversity of wildlife - hill goats, bighorn sheep,

coyotes, well bearded bears, scores of birds, and a

recognized "international" herd of elk that migrates

annually between summer mountain habitat in Glacier and

wintertime prairie ranges in Waterton.

The particular highlight of Waterton's sparkling string of lakes is

the global Upper Waterton Lake, the greatest lake

in the Canadian Rockies. Within 1932, the park was joined up with

with Montana's Glacier National Recreation area to form the

Waterton-Glacier International Serenity Park - a world

first.

Along with information obtained from Canada's Parks.