Canada provinces checklist: how many of the 13 have you visited?

Canada has 13 provinces and territories, and almost everyone's list looks the same at the start. Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia, maybe Alberta for the mountains. That's four, and it's a fine four, but the country is the second biggest on earth and the other nine are a very different place.

Here's an easy way to see where you stand. Go through the 13 below, tick the ones you've been to, and see your number. Whatever you tick saves on this device, so you can come back and finish later.

Prefer to see it than list it? The free Canada provinces visited map colors in every province you pick and shows your percentage, the same count in map form.

The checklist

All 13 are here, 10 provinces and 3 territories. Tick the ones you've been to and your progress saves in your browser.

Want it on a map instead? Open the free Canada provinces visited map and the provinces you ticked come with you, already filled in, ready to save or share.

Central Canada

Where most trips start and a lot of them stop. Ontario has Toronto, Ottawa and the Canadian side of Niagara Falls. Quebec has Montreal, Quebec City and the only walled city north of Mexico. Two provinces, but between them more than half the country's population, so if you've been to Canada at all you probably have at least one of them ticked.

The West Coast and the Rockies

British Columbia is the one people picture: Vancouver, Vancouver Island, the ferries, the rainforest. Alberta is right behind it with Banff, Jasper and Lake Louise, plus Calgary and the Stampede. The drive between them, up the Icefields Parkway, is one of those roads people plan a whole trip around. Two easy ticks that usually come as a pair.

The Prairies

Saskatchewan and Manitoba are the two most people skip, and the two most people are wrong about. Winnipeg has The Forks and a serious food scene, Churchill up on Hudson Bay is where you go to see polar bears and the northern lights, and Saskatchewan has Grasslands National Park and some of the emptiest, biggest sky you'll ever stand under.

Atlantic Canada

Four provinces, close enough together that one road trip can take all of them. Nova Scotia has Halifax and the Cabot Trail. New Brunswick has the Bay of Fundy and the highest tides in the world. Prince Edward Island is the smallest province, red cliffs and Anne of Green Gables. Newfoundland and Labrador is the one that feels furthest from everything, with icebergs, puffins and its own half-hour time zone.

The territories

Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut cover a third of Canada and hold about one person in every thousand. Whitehorse and Dawson City for the Gold Rush, Yellowknife for the aurora, Iqaluit and Baffin Island for the Arctic proper. These are the three that turn a Canada list from "most of it" into "all of it", and almost nobody has them.

See the whole collection

Every province and territory has its own stamp in Stampie's Canadian Provinces collection, ready to add to your journal the day you visit.

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Quick note: Stampie is a small indie project made by people who love travel and collecting stamps. The province designs are our own, not official symbols or coats of arms. They're just a fun way to mark where you've been. 🗺️

The checklist and the map are a nice start, but they only live on this one device. To keep your provinces for good, sync them across your phone and the web and line them up next to every country and city you've been to, that's what Stampie is for. Each province becomes a stamp in your journal, with your own photos and the dates you went, there whenever you want to look back.

So, how many of the 13 have you got?

FAQ

How many provinces does Canada have? Canada has 10 provinces and 3 territories, 13 in total. The provinces are Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec and Saskatchewan. The territories are Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Yukon. The checklist above covers all 13.

What's the difference between a province and a territory? Provinces get their powers from the constitution, territories get theirs from the federal parliament. For a traveler it makes no difference at all, which is why the checklist and the map count all 13 together.

Is there a free Canada provinces checklist? Yes. The checklist above lets you tick off every province and territory you've been to, saves your progress on your device, and needs no account. You can also download it as a printable PDF, or color your provinces in on the free Canada provinces visited map.

Can I download or print the Canada provinces checklist as a PDF? Yes. Tick off your provinces above and hit Download as PDF for a clean, printable page with a checkbox next to all 13 and your progress at the top.

Does a layover in Toronto count? That's up to you. Some people only count a province where they left the airport and did something, others count anywhere they set foot. Pick a rule and stick to it so your number always means the same thing. Toronto Pearson is the one that decides a lot of these lists.

Which provinces do most people miss? The three territories first, then Saskatchewan and Newfoundland and Labrador. They're a long way from the Toronto to Banff to Vancouver route, so most people finish a couple of trips to Canada with those still blank.

What's the best way to track the Canadian provinces you've visited? Something you can update in the moment beats a list you keep up from memory. Stampie turns each province into a stamp and fills in a Canada map as you go, synced across your phone and the web.