Removalgroup Reviews Complaints Canada Parks

Removalgroup Reviews Complaints Canada Parks, a photo by Removal Group on Flickr.

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(May 19, 2011) marks the 100th year of the oldest national park system in the world. Parks Canada oversees the protection and preservation of 42 national parks, 167 national historic sites and 4 marine conservation areas.

Banff National Park, in the Rockies of Alberta, was founded in 1885, and was Canada’s first national park and the third in the world (Bogd Khan Uul in Mongolia is the oldest, founded in 1778 and America’s Yellowstone second, 1872). Twenty-six years after the designation of Banff, the Canadian government recognized that a system was needed to ensure the ideology behind the park’s title was upheld. The Dominion Parks Branch was born. Today the Dominion Parks Branch is called Parks Canada and some 12 million people visit the areas they are entrusted to protect every year.