Petroglyphs Provincial Park

Petroglyphs Provincial Park in Woodview, Ontario contains Ontario’s largest collection of ancient First Nations petroglyphs and the rock site is also a National Historic Site of Canada. About 1,200 carvings, generally dating from about 900 to 1100 AD, were cut into stone and depict human figures, animals, reptiles, shamans, and a prominent sunlike figure. Often linked to Algonquian- or Iroquoian-speaking peoples, the site is known to many First Nations as Kinomagewapkong, “the rocks that teach.” Sacred to Indigenous communities and a pilgrimage place for local Anishinaabe people, it was hidden from non-First Nation people until 1954 and is now protected and interpreted with First Nation stewardship.

Ontario · Canada