The 13 Canadian Province/Territory Highpoints
(Click on Highpoint name below for a detailed description)
Mt. Logan, the second highest mountain in North America, is quite possibly the largest mountain on earth. It’s huge massif looms like a gigantic landlocked iceberg barely 50 miles from the Pacific Ocean...
Mount Fairweather is a “shining mountain of promise” standing head and shoulders above its neighbors on the boarder between British Columbia and Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska...
Mount Columbia, the highest point in Alberta, juts out of the northern edge of the Columbia Icefield, the largest icefield in the Rocky Mountains...
A wild and little-known range of peaks named the MacKenzie Mountains lies near the Yukon boarder in the southwest corner of the Northwest Territories. Concealed deep within the MacKenzie Mountains...
The Highpoint of Nunavut and the Canadian arctic was first climbed in 1967 and has been climbed only a few times since. Barbeau Peak is in Quttinirtaaq National Park on Ellesmere Island, a land of ultimate wilderness...
The rugged Torngat Mountains straddle the Quebec/Newfoundland boarder on a narrow peninsula between the Atlantic Ocean on the east and Ungava Bay on the west. The mountains here have a stark, desolate beauty that is usually accentuated by unsettled weather...
At the northeast tip of Nova Scotia is a land of rugged ocean coastline, waterfalls, and pristine mountain highlands. Whales play in the waters offshore and bald eagles soar in the coastal breezes...
The highpoint of New Brunswick is Mount Carleton, a treeless rock summit rising well above the neighboring hills. It is the highest point in the Maritime Provinces...
Deep in Lady Evelyn-Smoothwater Provincial Park, a series of exposed granite humps rise above the crystalline waters of the Canadian Shield. One of these humps, Ishpatina Ridge...
Baldy Mountain is the highest point on a long series of highlands known as the Manitoba Escarpment. It stands in the southeast corner of Duck Mountain Provincial Park...
The Cypress Hills, rising nearly 2,000 ft above the surrounding prairie, are the highest elevation between the Canadian Rockies and the Torngat Mountains of Quebec...
This Highpoint...may seem insignificant, but to a true Highpointer, no Highpoint is unimportant.