Showing posts with label CANADA (New Brunswick). Show all posts
Showing posts with label CANADA (New Brunswick). Show all posts

January 14, 2016

2213 CANADA (New Brunswick) - Hartland Covered Bridge


The Hartland Bridge in New Brunswick is the world's longest covered bridge, at 391m long. It crosses the Saint John River from Hartland to Somerville, and the framework consists of seven small Howe Truss bridges joined together on six piers. Before the construction of the bridge in 1901 (uncovered), the only way to cross the Saint John River was by ferry.

October 22, 2015

1980 CANADA (New Brunswick) - Miguasha National Park (UNESCO WHS)


Located on the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec, near Carleton-sur-Mer, Miguasha National Park is a palaeontological site, considered to be the world's most outstanding illustration of the Devonian Period known as the 'Age of Fishes'. Its significance stems from the discovery there of the highest number and best-preserved fossil specimens of the lobe-finned fishes that gave rise to the first four-legged, air-breathing terrestrial vertebrates - the tetrapods, a crucial time of the evolution of life on Earth.