Natural Resources Canada

Celebrate the diversity and history of Indigenous place names across Canada. Learn detailed information on their origins, the translated meanings of the names, and view links to historical reference documents.

The Arctic Ocean is a vast, cold, isolated and utterly fascinating part of the northern hemisphere. Beneath its surface, thousands of metres below, is an extension of our country known as the continental shelf. And now, based on massive amounts of geoscientific data measuring the seafloor, an additional 1.2 million square kilometres could be added to Canada’s land area of 9.98 million km².