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- Terminal 1 at Toronto Pearson International Airport — Qyd, CC BY 2.5
- Two tall apartment towers in Leaside, Toronto — SAF1999, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Sir Daniel Wilson Quadrangle, University of Toronto — Victoria Heath, CC0
- New citizens shaking hands at a citizenship ceremony in Hamilton, Ontario — Joey Coleman (Flickr), CC BY-SA 2.0
- Inside the Fairview branch of Toronto Public Library — Canmenwalker, CC BY 4.0
- Centre Block and the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill, Ottawa — Saffron Blaze, CC BY-SA 3.0
- A car buried in snow on a Montreal street after a blizzard — Exile on Ontario St (Flickr), CC BY-SA 2.0
- A red TTC streetcar on route 501 in Toronto — Chicken4War, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Lake Louise — Chensiyuan, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Moraine Lake — Unknown author, Public domain
- Jasper National Park — Ethan Sahagun, CC BY 4.0
- Icefields Parkway — Ethan Sahagun, CC BY 4.0
- Waterton Lakes National Park — Unknown author, Public domain
- Dinosaur Provincial Park — Aacounthingy, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Royal Tyrrell Museum — Ymblanter, CC BY-SA 4.0
- West Edmonton Mall — GoToVan from Vancouver, Canada, CC BY 2.0
- Capilano Suspension Bridge Park — Markus Säynevirta, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Butchart Gardens — w4nn3s, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Pacific Rim National Park Reserve — dvs from Vermont, USA, CC BY 2.0
- Yoho National Park — Jack Borno, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Okanagan Valley — Mack Male, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Niagara Falls — Saffron Blaze, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Rideau Canal — Bobak Ha'Eri, CC BY-SA 2.5
- Algonquin Provincial Park — Original uploader was Ptrbnsn at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Bruce Peninsula National Park — Original uploader was Brucegirl at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Toronto Islands — JK Liu, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Royal Ontario Museum — Maksim Sokolov (Maxergon), CC BY-SA 4.0
- Old Québec — Xavier Fournier-Blais, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Mont-Tremblant — Kuiyan Xu, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Forillon National Park — Hayden Soloviev, CC BY 4.0
- Percé Rock — Hayden Soloviev, CC BY 4.0
- Cabot Trail — Elviroyage, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Cape Breton Highlands National Park — glangille, CC BY 2.0
- Hopewell Rocks — Maciej, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Kouchibouguac National Park — Richtid, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Prince Edward Island National Park — Ryan Tir from Vaughan, ON, Canada, CC BY 2.0
- Gros Morne National Park — Adavyd, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Signal Hill — Shhewitt, CC BY-SA 4.0
- L’Anse aux Meadows — Dylan Kereluk from White Rock, Canada, CC BY 2.0
- Churchill polar bears — Travel Manitoba, CC BY 2.0
- Riding Mountain National Park — JPark99, Public domain
- Canadian Museum for Human Rights — Quintin Soloviev, CC BY 4.0
- Grasslands National Park — 1brettsnyder, Public domain
- Prince Albert National Park — Paul Gierszewski, Public domain
- Wanuskewin Heritage Park — Canadian2006, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Nahanni National Park Reserve — Paul Gierszewski (Gierszep), Public domain
- Auyuittuq National Park — Ansgar Walk, CC BY-SA 2.5
- Iqaluit — Quintin Soloviev, CC BY 4.0
- Country flag font: Twemoji by Twitter, Inc. and contributors, CC BY 4.0