Landscape of Grand Pré

Acadian farmers began dyking the marshes of the Minas Basin in the 17th century, using wooden aboiteau sluices to turn salt flats into fertile polder — farmland their successors still work today beside some of the world's most extreme tides, which average 11.6 metres. The landscape also carries the memory of the Grand Dérangement, the deportation of the Acadians begun in 1755. UNESCO inscribed the 1,300-hectare Landscape of Grand Pré in 2012.