1. Canada’s Landform Regions

2. Landform Region Map

3. Appalachian Mountains
Rocky shoreline at West Dover, NS
The boulders were deposited by glaciers

4. Appalachian Mountains
Valley in Cape Breton
Notice the rounded mountains

5. Appalachian Mountains
Aspy Bay in Cape Breton

6. Appalachian Mountains
Cape Breton Highlands
The mountains have been flattened by erosion

7. Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Lowlands
Typical farm in Ontario

8. Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Lowlands
The city of Toronto from the air
Notice the lack of hills
Also notice the smog

9. Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Lowlands
Farmland near Toronto

10. Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Lowlands
Southern Ontario from the air
Notice the flat horizon

11. Canadian Shield Lake near Port Cartier, Quebec
Rounded hills in the background

12. Canadian Shield Exposed rock along the lakeshore
Notice the scratches in the rock
They were caused by glaciers

13. Canadian Shield Boulder field in the Northwest Territories
More evidence of glaciation

14. Canadian Shield A boulder in the Northwest Territories
It was deposited here by a retreating glacier

15. Canadian Shield Exposed rock near Abitibi, Quebec
The scratches are the result of a glacier

16. Hudson Bay Lowlands
A wetland known as a muskeg in Northern Manitoba

17. Hudson Bay Lowlands
The watery terrain outside Churchill, Manitoba

18. Hudson Bay Lowlands
The water-filled landscape near Fort Severn, Ontario

19. Hudson Bay Lowlands
A forested bog outside Gilliam, Manitoba

20. Interior Plains
Farmland near the Red River in Southern Manitoba

21. Interior Plains
The meandering Red River in Southern Manitoba

22. Interior Plains
The Cypress Hills in Southern Saskatchewan

23. Interior Plains The Qu’Appelle Valley in Southern Saskatchewan
A rare change from the flat landscape in this region

24. Interior Plains Cows graze in a rocky field
These rocks, deposited by glaciers, are called moraine

25. Western Cordillera Mountains of the Yukon Notice the jagged peaks
If you looks carefully, you will also see glaciers

26. Western Cordillera
One of the large glaciers found in the Yukon

27. Western Cordillera
A glacier-fed lake in Jasper National Park in Alberta

28. Western Cordillera Jasper National Park
The valley is U-shaped because it was carved by a glacier, not the river you see here

29. Western Cordillera
The Coast Mountains provide a dramatic backdrop in this picture of North Vancouver, BC

30. Arctic Lowlands Tundra in Nunavut
Notice the flat land and strewn rocks

31. Arctic Lowlands
The flat, exposed land of Prince Patrick Island in the Northwest Territories

32. Arctic Lowlands Another image of Prince Patrick Island in the NWT
The flat land allows melting water to cover a vast area

33. Innuitian Mountains
The dramatic cliffs of Ellesmere Island, Nunavut

34. Innuitian Mountains
A glacier and its melt water on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut

35. Innuitian Mountains Red rocks and barren landscape on Melville Island
Melville Island is divided between Nunavut and the Northwest Territories