Iqaluit’s places to visit, starting with St. Jude's Cathedral
2 places to visit are mapped inside Iqaluit’s municipal boundary. The commonest are a cathedral and a museum.
The first to see in Iqaluit
Each has a page of its own: what it is, who runs it, the weather month by month and what else is near it.
Where to go
The outermost point is Nunatta Sunakkutaangit Museum, at 900 m.
The dashed line is Iqaluit’s municipal boundary; orange marks its middle (where most people live). Numbers match the list below. © OpenStreetMap contributors · Statistics Canada 2021 outline
The types of place
It comes down to a cathedral and a museum.
Green: inside Iqaluit. Grey: within 5 km of its edge.
Every entry
The 2 inside Iqaluit come first, best known first; then the places within 5 km, close and well known first. Provincial and city parks are on the Outdoors page instead.
Historic places in Iqaluit → · Parks, footpaths and green space in Iqaluit →
Visiting Iqaluit: questions
Is there a Parks Canada property near Iqaluit?
None on our list stands in Iqaluit or up to 5 km away.
How is this list made?
A single list is built from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, ODCAF and the heritage registers, each site counted once. To appear, a historic building must show it takes visitors (hours, a fee, a website, a heritage operator, a Wikipedia article), and hotels, restaurants and tour operators are left out. Places in the town’s 2021 outline, or within 5 km of its edge, are the ones shown.
Places to visit: Canada publishes no open tourism list, so this one is assembled from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL), Wikidata (CC0), Statistics Canada’s ODCAF museums and galleries (2020, Open Government Licence – Canada), the federal and Québec heritage registers and CPCAD’s national parks, and it reflects what mappers and editors have recorded. Forts, houses, lighthouses and churches count only with a sign that visitors are welcome. Places sit in each town’s 2021 census outline; visitor counts are Wikidata’s latest, with their year.
Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (2)
- St. Jude's Cathedral: Cwk36, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Nunatta Sunakkutaangit Museum: David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).