We study families of varieties endowed with dynamical eigensystems of several maps, inducing canonical heights on the dominating variety as well as on the "good" fibers of the family. We show explicitely the dependence on the parameter for global and local canonical heights defined by Kawaguchi when the fibers change, extending previous works of Call and Silverman in dynamical systems formed by just one morphism. Crown Copyright (C) 2019 Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.