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The Landscape of Grand Pré and its Acadian dykelands

The Landscape of Grand Pré World Heritage Site, Nova Scotia, photographed in 2018.
The Landscape of Grand Pré World Heritage Site, Nova Scotia, photographed in 2018. Landscape of Grand Pré 2 · Mykola Swarnyk · Photo source · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 3.0. Resized for display; item previews may be cropped. The image remains under the licence shown.
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The Landscape of Grand Pré in Nova Scotia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2012, bears exceptional testimony to a farming settlement the Acadians created in the 17th century beside some of the world’s highest tides. They reclaimed land from the sea with dykes, aboiteaux and drainage, under a community-based management system still in use today.

Scope & context

The dykeland farming landscape, not the deportation of the Acadians (see CA-K033).

Sources behind this record

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Landscape of Grand Pré ↗

Parks Canada (World Heritage Sites in Canada)

Date of Inscription; Justification of outstanding universal value