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    Toronto Feature: Grenadier Pond, High Park

    This article is from our Toronto Feature series. Features from past programs are not updated.

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    Toronto Feature: Guildwood Park

    This article is from our Toronto Feature series. Features from past programs are not updated.

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    Toronto Feature: High Park

    This article is from our Toronto Feature series. Features from past programs are not updated.

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    Toronto Feature: Riverdale Park

    This article is from our Toronto Feature series. Features from past programs are not updated.

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    Toronto Feature: Tommy Thompson Park

    This article is from our Toronto Feature series. Features from past programs are not updated.

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    Toronto Feature: Wychwood Park

    This article is from our Toronto Feature series. Features from past programs are not updated.

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    Tuktut Nogait National Park

    Tuktut Nogait National Park (established in 1998, 18 181 km2) was created through the efforts of the Inuit of Paulatuk, NWT.

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    Turtle Mountain Provincial Park

    Named after the western painted turtle found in the park, Turtle Mountain Provincial Park (established 1961, 189 km2) is 100 km south of Brandon, Manitoba, butted against the international boundary.

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    Ukkusiksalik National Park

    Ukkusiksalik National Park, Nunavut, size 20,885 km2, established in 2003, is located on the northwest side of Hudson Bay. It was first proposed as a National Park in 1978 because of the spectacular inland sea, Wager Bay, and the surrounding area. The name Ukkusiksalik in Inuktitut means "the place where soapstone to make pots and oil lamps is found."

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    Vancouver Feature: “Babes in the Woods” Discovered

    The following article is a feature from our Vancouver Feature series. Past features are not updated. A Parks Board gardener, clearing leaves near Beaver Lake, came across a cheap fur coat. Lifting it up, he made a grisly discovery — the skeletal remains of two young children. Dubbed the Babes in the Woods by the press, the sensational, unsolved case remains a haunting piece of Vancouver lore.

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    Vuntut National Park

    A portion of the Old Crow Plain (locally called the Old Crow Flats) was set aside, through the settlement of the Vuntut Gwitchin comprehensive land claim in 1993, for Vuntut National Park (established 1995, 4345 km2).

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    Wapusk National Park

    Wapusk National Park (11 475.0 km2) became part of Canada's national parks system on 24 April 1996 when a federal-provincial agreement was signed providing for its establishment.

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    Waterton Lakes National Park

    Waterton Lakes National Park (established 1895, 505 km2) is situated in the southwestern corner of Alberta on the Canada-US border. In 1932, this park was united with Montana's Glacier National Park to create the world's first international peace park.

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    Whiteshell Provincial Park

    Whiteshell Provincial Park (established 1961, 2737.15 km2), 105 km E of Winnipeg, Manitoba, by the Trans-Canada Highway, is Precambrian SHIELD country. Whiteshell is connected to Nopiming Provincial Park to the north.

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    Wood Buffalo National Park

    Wood Buffalo National Park (established in 1922, 44 802 km2) was established to protect the last herd of wood bison. Canada's largest national park straddles the Alberta/NWT border. It was declared a World Heritage Site in 1983.

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