Canada's natural history collections
Learn about the institution, the collections they hold and view records of specimens that have been databased. Currently only the collections of Canadensys Collections partners are shown. Over time this list will expand to include all natural history collections in Canada.
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- Agnes Marion Ayre Herbarium
- Atlantic Reference Centre Museum of Canadian Atlantic Organisms
- BC Coastal Waterbird Survey
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Biodiversity of Urban Greenspaces Lab
- Bishop's University Insect Collection
- Brock University Herbarium
- Bruce Bennett Herbarium
- Canadian Lakes Loon Survey
- Canadian Museum of Nature Amphibian and Reptile Collection
- Canadian Museum of Nature Annelid Collection
- Canadian Museum of Nature Bird Collection
- Canadian Museum of Nature Crustacea Collection
- Canadian Museum of Nature Fish Collection
- Canadian Museum of Nature Fossil Invertebrate Collection
- Canadian Museum of Nature Fossil Vertebrate Collection
- Canadian Museum of Nature General Invertebrate Collection
- Canadian Museum of Nature Herbarium
- Canadian Museum of Nature Insect Collection
- Canadian Museum of Nature Mammal Collection
- Canadian Museum of Nature Mollusc Collection
- Canadian Museum of Nature Palaeobotany Collection
- Canadian Museum of Nature Palynology Collection
- Canadian Museum of Nature Parasite Collection
- Centre for Biodiversity Genomics
- Cercle des mycologues de Montréal Fungarium
- Collection d'insectes du Québec
- Collection entomologique de l'Université Laval
- Decodon verticillatus - Eastern North America
- Distribution Data for Megachile chomskyi
- E. C. Smith Herbarium
- E. C. Smith Herbarium - Cape Breton University Collection
- E. C. Smith Herbarium - Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History
- E. H. Strickland Entomological Museum
- Green Plant Herbarium
- Harriet Irving Botanical Gardens
- Herbier de la Société québécoise de bryologie
- Herbier du Québec
- Herbier Louis-Marie
- Herpetology Collection - Royal Ontario Museum
- Ichthyology Collection - Royal Ontario Museum
- Insectarium de Montréal
- Insectarium René-Martineau
- Inventory and BioBlitz Records from rare Charitable Research Reserve
- Jardin botanique de Montréal
- Living Prairie Museum Manitoba Herbarium
- Lyman Entomological Museum
- Mammalogy Collection - Royal Ontario Museum
- Marie-Victorin Herbarium
- Marsh Monitoring Program
- McGill University Herbarium
- Natural history museum data on Canadian Arctic marine benthos
- Northern Biodiversity Program
- Nova Scotia Museum - Marine Birds, Mammals, and Fishes
- Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History
- OAC-BIO Herbarium
- Ontario BioBlitz Species Records
- Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas
- Ornithology Collection- Royal Ontario Museum
- Ouellet-Robert entomological collection
- Palaeobiology - Vertebrate Comparative Osteology Collection
- Palaeobiology - Vertebrate Fossils Collection
- Richard Staniforth Herbarium
- Royal British Columbia Museum - Herbarium
- Royal British Columbia Museum - Herpetology Collection
- Royal British Columbia Museum - Invertebrate Zoology
- Royal Ontario Museum - Entomology Collection
- Royal Ontario Museum Fungarium
- Royal Saskatchewan Museum - Herpetology Collection
- Royal Saskatchewan Museum - Ichthyology Collection
- Royal Saskatchewan Museum - Mammalogy Collection
- Royal Saskatchewan Museum - Ornithology Collection
- Royal Saskatchewan Museum - Owl Pellet Collection
- Station de Biologie des Laurentides - Collection ornithologique
- The Dr. Laurie L. Consaul Herbarium
- TRTE Herbarium
- University of Alberta Freshwater Invertebrate Collection
- University of Alberta Museum of Zoology
- University of Alberta Vascular Plant Herbarium
- University of British Columbia - Spencer Entomological Collection
- University of British Columbia Botanical Garden Collections
- University of British Columbia Herbarium
- University of Calgary Herbarium
- University of Guelph Insect Collection
- University of Lethbridge herbarium
- University of Manitoba - Lichen Collection
- University of Manitoba Herbarium - Vascular Plant Collection
- Ville de Trois-Rivières
