Preserving Beauty in Every Detail: Celebrating Canada’s National Parks
- Feb 17, 2026
- Canadiana
- 5 min read
Canada is world renowned for its vast landscapes teeming with natural beauty. From coast to coast to coast, Parks Canada is the guardian of over 450,000 km2 of pristine wild spaces and culturally significant sites. National parks and park reserves are a point of pride for Canadians and an integral part of our national identity.
In celebration of these amazing places, we are proud to introduce a new four-coin series that pays tribute to the extraordinary beauty found across the network of protected areas administered by Parks Canada. Each coin captures the majesty of a different national park, transforming scenic grandeur into pocket-sized masterpieces.
Let’s explore each national park depicted in this series and discover the remarkable reasons that make them true treasures. With every new coin release, we will update this article with the new featured park.
Canada is world renowned for its vast landscapes teeming with natural beauty. From coast to coast to coast, Parks Canada is the guardian of over 450,000 km2 of pristine wild spaces and culturally significant sites. National parks and park reserves are a point of pride for Canadians and an integral part of our national identity.
In celebration of these amazing places, we are proud to introduce a new four-coin series that pays tribute to the extraordinary beauty found across the network of protected areas administered by Parks Canada. Each coin captures the majesty of a different national park, transforming scenic grandeur into pocket-sized masterpieces.
Let’s explore each national park depicted in this series and discover the remarkable reasons that make them true treasures. With every new coin release, we will update this article with the new featured park.
Torngat Mountains National Park
Rugged, remote, and awe-inspiring, Torngat Mountains National Park is a place like no other. An Inuit homeland since time immemorial, its name comes from the Inuktitut word Tongait, meaning “place of spirits.”
The story of the establishment of this national park is one of working with Inuit as equal partners. Their special historical and cultural relationship with the land is recognized and honoured by Parks Canada, and Inuit knowledge is incorporated in all aspects of the co-operative management of this park.
Located on the northern tip of the Labrador Peninsula, the national park’s remoteness has long kept its 9,700 square kilometres of untamed wilderness hidden from the rest of the world. Visitors who do make the trek here are welcomed by the tallest peaks east of the Canadian Rocky Mountains and wildlife viewing opportunities of roaming polar bears and migrating caribou.
Kluane National Park and Reserve
The impressive natural landscape of Kluane is part of the Traditional Territory of the Southern Tutchone people, represented in the Kluane region by the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations and the Kluane First Nation. The northern portion of Kluane National Park and Reserve spans an area for which White River First Nation has asserted traditional territory. For thousands of years, Dän (the people) pursued a subsistence-hunting and gathering lifestyle throughout much of the region now called Kluane National Park and Reserve.
This vast protected area is a mountaineer’s dream and a haven for outdoor enthusiasts: 17 of Canada’s 20 highest peaks, including our tallest, Mount Logan, are located here. From backcountry hiking to rafting by ancient glaciers on the Alsek River, there are so many ways to enjoy and explore the natural majesty of Kluane.
Though the landscape is dominated by the world’s largest non-polar icefields, some of the greatest biodiversity in northern Canada lies here. Kluane’s “green belt” is home to over 200 plant species, 118 species of birds, and high concentrations of large mammals including iconic apex predators like grizzly bears, wolves, and the elusive wolverine.
Grasslands National Park
Established only 45 years ago, Grasslands National Park is home to prehistoric wonders undisturbed cultural resources, and species found nowhere else in Canada. Approximately 10,000 years ago, upon the retreat of the glaciers, the prairies became home to several Indigenous groups. Today, the evidence is profound with bison drive lanes, projectile points, tipi rings and other cultural features that dot the park landscape.
The park’s East Block offers a window into a time far beyond that. It is one of the best places in the world for viewing the Cretaceous-Paleogene (KPG) Boundary—a layer of sediment corresponding with the mass extinction event that marked the end of the age of dinosaurs. While you might think of Alberta as Canada’s paleontological hotspot, it was here in the Rock Creek Badlands that the first dinosaur remains were found in Canada in 1874.
Now, North America’s largest land mammal can be found grazing these grasslands. After a 120-year absence, plains bison were reintroduced to the park in 2005. Over 400 individuals make up the current free-roaming herd. Grassland’s West Block is also the only place in Canada where you’ll find black-tailed prairie dogs in their natural habitat. Burrowing owls, swift foxes, and pronghorn antelope are among the other unique species that call the park home.
Now that you’ve discovered what makes these national parks so special, take a seat and take in the view captured on each of our Canada’s National Parks coins.
The iconic red chairs found across locations administered by Parks Canada adorn each coin with a spectacular view in the background. Add the entire series to your collection and you’ll receive a special subscription box that allows you to display them together. Order yours today!
Looking to learn even more about these national parks or the entire Parks Canada network of protected areas? Check out their website or sign up for their newsletter.
Travel back to our blog in the coming months to learn about the final Parks Canada location featured in this series.
Torngat Mountains National Park (Now available)
Kluane National Park and Reserve (Now available)
Grasslands National Park (Now available)
Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve (November 2026)
