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Archaeological & historic sites in Canada

Canada has 142 archaeological & historic sites on Detourmap — ancient ruins, tombs, ghost towns, shipwrecks, catacombs, mines, battlefields and crash sites. The best known is L'Anse aux Meadows. All of them are below.

Archaeological
142
Oldest
Fort Charlesbourg Royal 1541
Little known
123 of 142
Most from
20th century

Questions about this page

How many archaeological & historic sites are there in Canada?

142 on this map, out of 14,002 worldwide. That is what Wikidata records for Canada with coordinates, a photograph and a Wikipedia article — the real number on the ground is larger, and for some countries much larger.

What is the best known of the archaeological & historic sites in Canada?

L'Anse aux Meadows. Archaeological site on the island of Newfoundland, Canada.

Which is the oldest?

Fort Charlesbourg Royal, dated to 1541. 58 of these 142 carry a founding date.

Where does this information come from?

Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.

Archaeological & historic sites elsewhere

United Kingdom1,708 United States1,519 Italy1,110 France997 Spain916 Greece506 Japan505 Germany462 Czech Republic455 Turkey394 Egypt263 Russia219

All 14,002 archaeological & historic sites worldwide →

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