Holy Sites in Canada
10 sacred sites ranked by global significance
⛪Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré Basilica
A major Canadian pilgrimage site known for miraculous healings since 1658.
🦬Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
A sacred Indigenous site where Plains peoples conducted buffalo hunts for nearly 6,000 years.
🪨Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai'pi Provincial Park
The greatest concentration of Indigenous rock art on the Great Plains, sacred to the Blackfoot.
⛪Saint Joseph's Oratory of Mount Royal
The largest church in Canada, built through the miracles of Brother André.
✝️Notre-Dame Basilica of Montreal
A breathtaking Gothic Revival masterpiece with a spectacular polychrome interior.
🙏Basilica of Notre-Dame de Québec
The oldest parish church in North America and the first church elevated to basilica status in the Americas.
🙏Cap-de-la-Madeleine (Our Lady of the Cape Shrine)
Canada's national Marian shrine, site of a famous miracle where a statue opened its eyes.
⛪Cathedral of St. John the Baptist (St. John's, Newfoundland)
One of the finest examples of Romanesque architecture in North America on Canada's eastern edge.
🌲Haida Gwaii (SGang Gwaay / Ninstints)
A remote sacred island with weathered totem poles, the spiritual heartland of the Haida people.
✝️Martyrs' Shrine (Midland, Ontario)
A national shrine honoring the Canadian Martyrs, eight Jesuit missionaries killed in the 1640s.