The landscape of Grand Pré was inscribed as an UNESCO World Heritage Site at the 36th Session by UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee on July 2. The site is situated in the southern Minas Basin of Nova Scotia and marked by one of the most extreme tidal ranges in the world.
The Grand Pré marshland and archaeological sites constitute a cultural landscape bearing testimony to the development of agricultural farmland using dykes and the aboiteau wooden sluice system, started by the Acadians in the 17th century and further developed and maintained by the Planters and present day inhabitants. The site is also inscribed as a memorial to Acadian way of life and deportation, which started in 1755 – http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1404.
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