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List of highest points of Canadian provinces and territories
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This is a list of the highest points of the Canadian provinces and territories, by height.
| Province or territory | Peak | Range or other region | Height (m) | Height (ft) |
| Yukon | Mount Logan | St. Elias Mountains | 5 959 | 19,950 |
| British Columbia | Mount Fairweather * | St. Elias Mountains | 4 663 | 15,299 |
| Alberta | Mount Columbia** | Rocky Mountains | 3 747 | 12,293 |
| Northwest Territories | Mount Nirvana | Backbone Ranges | 2 773 | 9,098 |
| Nunavut | Barbeau Peak | Ellesmere Island | 2 616 | 8,583 |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | Mount Caubvik *** | Torngat Mountains | 1 652 | 5,420 |
| Quebec | Mont D'Iberville *** | Torngat Mountains | 1 651 | 5,417 |
| Saskatchewan | Unnamed point | Cypress Hills | 1 468 | 4,816 |
| Manitoba | Baldy Mountain | 832 | 2,730 | |
| New Brunswick | Mount Carleton | 817 | 2,680 | |
| Ontario | Ishpatina Ridge | 693 | 2,274 | |
| Nova Scotia | Unnamed () | Cape Breton Highlands | 532 | 1,745 |
| Prince Edward Island | Unnamed () | Queens County | 142 | 466 |
* Fairweather Mountain is the officially-gazetted name, but Mount Fairweather is the common usage. Mount Fairweather is on the boundary with Alaska, with only the summit and about 1/3 of the peak's massif within British Columbia. The highest summit completely within British Columbia is Mount Waddington 4 019 m (13,186 ft) in the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains. **Because it is on the Continental Divide, Mount Columbia is in British Columbia as well as Alberta. *** This peak, which lies on the border between the two provinces, is known as Mount Caubvik in Newfoundland and Labrador and Mont D'Iberville in Quebec. The difference in heights between the Labrador and Quebec sides is not a misprint; the summit of the mountain is entirely within Labrador, about 10 metres from the provincial border.
The lowest dry point anywhere in Canada is in Richmond, British Columbia, an island municipality dyked against the waters of the Georgia Strait and the Fraser River, where some areas are up two metres below sea level. Other than that, and all provinces and territories except Alberta and Saskatchewan have a maritime coast. The shore of Lake Athabasca, which straddles Alberta and Saskatchewan is Saskatchewan's lowest dry point (213 meters above sea level). The Slave River (which drains Lake Athabasca) flows from Northeastern Alberta into the Northwest Territories and is Alberta's lowest point at the N.W.T. border (152 meters above sea level).