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).
Mingan NPR (Quebec) has the largest concentration of naturally sculpted limestone monoliths in Canada (some with 465 million old fossils), and is home to whales, seals, bird colonies, thousands of islands, and arctic-alpine plants in this mid-Nordic environment. Human occupation of this archipelago goes back at least 2000 years. The first inhabitants, groups of American Indians, were attracted by the marine resources of this part of the gulf and gathered molluscs, fished salmon and hunted the seal. Before Jacques Cartier, in the 15th and 16th centuries the Basque fished for cod and hunted whales here.
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