Butterfly Gardens, Houses, Exhibits, and Displays in Canada
Get up close and personal with butterflies at a butterfly exhibit near you!
Alberta
- Calgary Zoo, Butterfly Exhibit - Butterfly House
- 1300 Zoo Road NE, Calgary, AB, CANADA
- Phone: 1-800-588-9993
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- Email: guestrelations@calgaryzoo.com
- Wander along lush pathways, to explore a living library of trees and plants – including a few that might surprise you. Kiwi fruit in Alberta? You bet! All paths lead to the ENMAX Conservatory where you’ll find a steamy butterfly garden and jungle atmosphere – complete with banana trees and pineapple plants.
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- Devonian Botanic Gardens - Butterfly House
- University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, CANADA
- Phone: 780-987-2496
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- Highlights of the Garden, which was established in 1959, include the beautiful Kurimoto Japanese Garden; a Tropical Showhouse with exotic butterflies; Temperate and Arid Showhouses; alpine, herb, rose, peony, lilac and lily collections; a Heritage Garden; Native Peoples Garden; trial beds and more.
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British Columbia
- Butterfly World and Gardens
- 1080 Winchester Road, Coombs, BC, CANADA
- Phone: (250) 248-7026 Fax: (250) 752-1091
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- The Emerging Area will amaze you as you watch a butterfly emerge from a chrysalis to transform from a soggy insect into a flying jewel of brilliant colour. View the eggs of the butterfly or watch the caterpillars devour a plant before your eyes... you can actually hear them as they munch away
- Victoria Bug Zoo
- 631 Courtney Street, Victoria, BC, CANADA
- Phone: (250) 384-2847
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- Email: bugs@bugzoo.bc.ca
- A visit to this must see zoo offers visitors an excellent opportunity to view and experience multi-legged creatures from around the world in a safe, fun and friendly atmosphere.
- Victoria Butterfly Gardens
- 1461 Benvenuto Ave., Brentwood Bay, BC, CANADA
- Phone: 250.652.3822
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- Victoria Butterfly Gardens offers your only opportunity to experience the warmth, beauty and romance of a tropical jungle without going to the tropics. Stroll through this indoor tropical wonderland, where Caribbean flamingos walk through the streams and ponds among the beautifully coloured koi, goldfish, jack dempseys, albino oscars, tetras, barbs, jaguar cichlids, plecos, Australian whistling tree ducks and red-eared slider turtles.
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Newfoundland/Labrador
- Newfoundland Insectarium - Butterfly House & Insect Zoo
- 2 Bonne Bay Road, Reidville, NL, CANADA
- Phone: 709-635-4545 Fax: 709-635-4506
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- Email: nfinsectarium@gmail.com
- The Newfoundland Insectarium is a museum of nature featuring insects and arthropods from around the world. It houses thousands of live and mounted specimens including a butterfly garden, glass beehive, and ant colony.
Ontario
- F. Jean MacLeod Butterfly Gallery
- Science North, 100 Ramsey Lake Road, Sudbury, ON, CANADA
- Phone: 705-522-3701 ext. 0
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- Email: contactus@sciencenorth.ca
- Close to 400 free-flying tropical butterflies make their home amidst more than 200 exotic plants in this tropical environment. Watch butterflies emerge from their chrysalis in the eclosion cabinet. Learn what countries these species come from, their life cycle and mating habits. Use the magnifiers attached to the portable feeding stations for a closer look.
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- Niagara Parks Butterfly Conservatory
- Niagara Parks Botanical Gardens, Niagara Parkway, Niagara Falls, ON, CANADA
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- This magical attraction features over 2,000 colourful tropical butterflies floating freely among lush, exotic blossoms and greenery. Paths wind through the rainforest setting, past a pond and waterfall and the Emergence window, where butterflies leave their pupae and prepare to take their first flight!
- Toronto Zoo
- 361A Old Finch Avenue, Toronto, ON, CANADA
- Phone: 416-392-5929
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- Email: tzwebmaster@torontozoo.ca
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- Urquhart Butterfly Garden
- Centennial Park, Cootes Dr and East St North, Hamilton, ON, CANADA
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- Email: urquhartbutterfly@gmail.com
- The gardenÂ’s objectives include educating the public about how to contribute to protecting butterfly populations. The garden also provides a relaxing, natural environment where people of all ages can learn about the diversity of local butterfly species and enjoy their beauty.
- Wings of Paradise
- 240 Waterloo Street North, Cambridge, ON, CANADA
- Phone: 519-653-2002
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Quebec
- Centre Jardin Hamel - Butterfly House
- 6029 Boulevard Hamel, Ancienne-Lorett, QC, CANADA
- Phone: 418-872-9719
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- Email: fleuriste@jardinhamel.com
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- L'Insectarium de Montreal - Butterfly House & Insect Zoo
- 4581 Rue Sherbrooke Est, Montreal, QC, CANADA
- Phone: 514-872-0658
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