Cape Breton Highlands
- Website: http://www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/ns/cbreton/index_e.asp
- Location: On the northern tip of Cape Breton Island between the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the Atlantic Ocean. (46°N)
- Area: 950 km2 (366 mi2)
- Proclaimed: 1936
- Historical:
- Mikmaq, Acadian, French, and Scottish and other cultures, travelled, fished and settled here.
- John Cabot reputedly made his first landfall in the New World at Aspy Bay off the east coast of Cape Breton in 1497.
- Lone Shieling, a reproduction of a crofter’s hut, was erected in 1942 to commemorate the Scottish heritage and to symbolize Cape Breton’s links with the Scottish Highlands.
- Features:
Kejimkujik
- Website: http://www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/ns/kejimkujik/index_e.asp
- Location: Between Halifax, Digby, and Yarmouth on two separate blocks
- Area: Inland – 381 km2 (147 mi2); Coastal – 22 km2 (8 mi2)
- Proclaimed: 1967
- Historical:
- Maritime Archaic Indians, present from about 4,500 years ago; the nomadic Woodland Indians were next; and the Mi’kmaq, descendants of these people have been here for the last 2,000 years.
- Features:
- Mi’kmaq petroglyphs