Canadian Provincial Highpoints

The top of every province and territory

Canada's provincial highpoints are a harder list than the American one and a lot less traveled. Mount Logan in Yukon is the country's highest mountain at 5,959 meters, a serious expedition in the St. Elias icefields; Mount Fairweather on the British Columbia–Alaska line is almost as hard, and Mount Columbia in Alberta is a glaciated climb off the Columbia Icefield. Nunavut's Barbeau Peak on Ellesmere Island is reachable only by chartered aircraft from Resolute and has seen fewer ascents than some Himalayan peaks.

At the other end, Prince Edward Island's highpoint is a 142-metre rise in Glen Valley that most people drive past, Nova Scotia's White Hill is a bog walk in Cape Breton, and Baldy Mountain in Manitoba's Duck Mountain Provincial Park has a viewing tower. Ontario's Ishpatina Ridge is the sleeper: not high, but buried in the Temagami wilderness and best reached by canoe and bushwhack.

Thirteen badges, twelve summits

Mount Caubvick — Mont D'Iberville on the Quebec side — straddles the Labrador–Quebec border in the Torngat Mountains and is the highest point of both Newfoundland and Labrador and Quebec. One climb, two badges; the map marks it as shared. It's also one of the most remote summits on the list, an expedition by boat and foot up the Labrador coast.

Click a badge or its pin to mark a highpoint reached, again for want-to-climb. If you're keeping a North American tally, the US state highpoints map is the other half.

Accessibility, roughly ranked

From easiest to hardest: PEI's Glen Valley and Nova Scotia's White Hill are afternoon outings; Baldy Mountain in Manitoba and Mount Carleton in New Brunswick are well-trailed day hikes; Cypress Hills in Saskatchewan is a short walk in a provincial park. Ishpatina Ridge in Ontario and Mount Nirvana in the Northwest Territories need wilderness logistics — canoe and bushwhack for the first, a float plane and technical climbing for the second. Caubvick, Columbia, Fairweather, Logan, and Barbeau Peak are mountaineering expeditions. Most people who finish this list have a guide, a pilot, or both in their phone.