Point Pelee National Park

Point Pelee National Park occupies a narrow sandspit in southwestern Ontario that reaches into Lake Erie, forming the southernmost point of mainland Canada, while its Middle Island marks the southernmost point in Canada. Shaped by glacial deposits and centuries of shoreline change, this small park is mostly marsh and forest, with a shifting sandy tip. People have lived here for thousands of years, and it remains unceded Aboriginal land despite colonial dispossession of the Caldwell First Nation Chippewa. Established in 1918 as Canada’s first national park created for conservation, Point Pelee is now especially valued as a major refuge for rare Carolinian species and for bird migration along two major flyways.

Ontario · Canada