This series highlights Canada's stunning parks and sites that protect the environment and showcases the various historic aspects of our country. Parks Canada protects and administers 37 national parks, 10 national park reserves, 171 (out of 1004) national historic sites, 5 national marine conservation areas, and one national urban park (as of 2023).
Kejimkujik (Nova Scotia) is a rare refuge for old growth forests and the species that depend upon them, and is at the core of the second largest biosphere reserve in Canada. Designated a national historic site in 1995 because it attests to 4000 years of Mi’kmaq occupancy, the cultural landscape at the park includes Mi'kmaw petroglyphs, habitation sites, fishing sites, hunting territories, travel routes and burials. The most noticeable traces left by the early Mi’kmaq are the petroglyph (carvings in stone) engravings created in the glacially polished slate outcrops. The more than 500 individual petroglyphs within the site makes it one of the largest collection of these images in eastern North America.
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