Highpoints of Canada

 

The 13 Canadian Province/Territory Highpoints
(Click on Highpoint name below for a detailed description)

Mount Logan - Yukon Territories 5957 m (19,545 ft.)

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 - British Columbia 4663 m (15,300 ft.) 

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 - Alberta 3747 m (12,294 ft.)

Mount Columbia, the highest point in Alberta, juts out of the northern edge of the Columbia Icefield, the largest icefield in the Rocky Mountains...

Mount Nirvana - Northwest Territories 2773 m (9097 ft.)

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...

Barbeau Peak - Northwest Territories 2670 m (8769 ft.)

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...

Mont d'Iberville/Mount Caubvick - Quebec & Newfoundland 1652 m (5420 ft.)

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...

White Hill - Nova Scotia 532 m (1747 ft.)

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...

Mount Carleton - New Brunswick 820 m (2690 ft.)

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...

Ishpatina Ridge - Ontario 693 m (2275 ft.)

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 - Manitoba 832 m (2729 ft.)

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...

Unnamed Point in the Cypress Hills - Saskatchewan 1392 m (4567 ft.)

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...

Unnamed Point - Prince Edward Island 149 m (457 ft.) 

This Highpoint...may seem insignificant, but to a true Highpointer, no Highpoint is unimportant.