Pilgrimage Sites in Canada
Discover 12 sacred destinations in Canada
Cap-de-la-Madeleine
Home to Our Lady of the Cape Shrine, Cap-de-la-Madeleine is Canada's national Marian shrine with miraculous origins dating to 1888.
Kahnawake
Kahnawake's shrine holds the tomb of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, the first Indigenous North American saint, drawing pilgrims from across the Americas.
Lac-Bouchette
Ermitage Saint-Antoine de Lac-Bouchette, Quebec's Marian shrine founded 1907 by Abbé Elzéar Delamarre, run by Capuchin Franciscans since 1925.
Midland
Midland's Martyrs' Shrine is Canada's national pilgrimage site honoring eight Jesuit saints martyred while bringing Christianity to the Huron people.
Montreal
Saint Joseph's Oratory, the world's largest shrine to St Joseph, grew from a chapel a college porter built on Mount Royal in 1904.
Ottawa
Ottawa offers Catholic pilgrims the magnificent Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica, a National Historic Site and spiritual heart of Canada's capital since 1847.
Québec City
North America's oldest Catholic pilgrimage city, home to the continent's oldest parish and the tombs of the first bishops of New France.
Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré
North America's oldest Catholic pilgrimage site, where pilgrims come to venerate St. Anne, the grandmother of Jesus.
Toronto
St. Michael's Cathedral Basilica and the National Shrine of Our Mother of Perpetual Help anchor Catholic pilgrimage in Canada's largest city.
Trois-Rivières
Canada's national Marian shrine, the Notre-Dame-du-Cap Basilica, draws pilgrims to this old river city on the St. Lawrence each year.
Wakaw
St. Theresa Parish, the National Shrine of the Little Flower in Wakaw, Saskatchewan, is a pilgrimage destination devoted to St. Thérèse of Lisieux.
Winnipeg
Winnipeg serves as a significant Catholic pilgrimage destination, home to Canada's second martyr's shrine at St. Joseph's Ukrainian Catholic Church, where the holy relics of Blessed Bishop Vasyl Velychkovsky are enshrined.