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On the Trail of
The Great Canadian Meteorites

with DAVE AND JULIE KENNY

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Holding a meteorite in your hand is both an astounding scientific and a mystical experience. These are the oldest, coldest, hottest, farthest, fastest natural objects you can hold in your hands. They existed long before the earth formed and will likely exist for billions of years hence.

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40+ Canadian meteorites featured on this website !

Abee

Beaver Creek

Belly River

Blithfield

Bruderheim 

Bruno

Buzzard Coulee 

Dresden 

Edmonton

Giroux

Golden 

Grimsby

Hagersville

Innisfree

Kinley

Kinsella

Kitchener

Klondike (Gay Gulch)

Lac Dadon

Madoc 

Manitou Asiniy / Iron Creek 

Manitouwabing

Mayerthorpe

Ocean Falls - (added Dec 2024)

Osseo

Peace River

Red Deer Hill

Revelstoke

Riverton

Shelburne

Skiff

Skookum (Skookum Gulch)

Southampton

Springwater 

St-Robert

Tagish Lake 

Thurlow

Welland

Whitecourt 

Wood Lake

Wynyard

Vulcan

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and more !

Why We Love Meteorites

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Meteors and meteorites have fascinated people for millennia.

 

King Tut was adorned with a dagger blade made of meteorite metal, and a yellow-green Scarab “bling” necklace of meteor impact Desert Glass. The famous TV chef Anthony Bourdain also owned a knife made with a meteorite blade. After his death, it was auctioned off at total price of $231,000 US ...

 

Meteors and meteorites have appeared recorded on ancient pictographs, petroglyphs, medieval woodcuts and paintings. Apocalyptic meteorites have changed the course of earth's history, and have made appearances in countless movies ( eg Armageddon, Deep Impact, Don’t Look Up etc). A popular TV science show (Meteorite Men) ran for 3 seasons. 

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They’ve been commemorated on cars, chocolate bars, and bottles of beer. Chilean wine has even been aged over meteorites. They’ve been featured in boxes of Brooke Bond tea, on postage stamps, coins, medals  ... 

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The Idea

In May 2022, as the COVID pandemic eased, my wife Julie and I decided to do a road trip from our home on Vancouver Island to Ontario to visit my family. Being “somewhat” obsessed with astronomy, and meteorites in particular, I had planned to visit the Whitecourt Crater in Alberta and the Buzzard Coulee meteorite site in Saskatchewan. (More on these later). As I plotted our proposed route through Alberta into Saskatchewan, I realized that this would take us close to many other historic Canadian meteorite fall sites and impact craters. What better way to cross the country for a meteorite enthusiast and his patient spouse than to visit these epic sites (and a few museums) on the way.

 

Here is our photographic travel-log of the journey !

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Julie at the Holleford Crater

Ontario Aug 2014

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Please note !

This is an eductional and fun site about historic meteorites and craters of Canada. Many or all of these sites no longer contain any meteorites. Many sites are on private or protected land.
 
We do not recommend searching any areas without detailed knowledge of safety, Canadian laws and meteorite detection which is beyond the scope of this site.

All photos by Dave and Julie Kenny unless otherwise credited. Please no image copying without permission.
 

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