2539 CANADA (Nova Scotia) - Humpback Whales

The humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) is one of the larger rorqual species, adults range in length from 12-16m and weigh about 36,000kg. It has a distinctive body shape, with long pectoral fins and a knobbly head. Founds in oceans and seas around the world, humpback whale typically migrate up to 25,000 km each year. It feeds only in summer, in polar waters, and migrate to tropical or subtropical waters to breed and give birth in the winter when they fast and live off their fat reserves.

2369 CANADA (Nova Scotia) - Landscape of Grand Pré (UNESCO WHS)

2369 Landscape of Grand Pré - Statue of
Longfellow's Evangeline and memorial church

Situated in the southern Minas Basin of Nova Scotia, the Grand-Pré marshland and archaeological sites constitute a cultural landscape bearing testimony to the development of agricultural farmland using dykes and the aboiteau wooden sluice system, started by the Acadians in the 17th century and further developed and maintained by the Planters and present-day inhabitants. The landscape is an exceptional example of the adaptation of the first European settlers to the conditions of the North American Atlantic coast.

0356 CANADA (Nova Scotia) - Old Town Lunenburg - The Lunenburg Academy (UNESCO WHS)

Now the second-smallest province in Canada, Nova Scotia (as the entire Acadia in fact) was inhabited for centuries by Mi’kmaq, a First Nations people, to whom was joined, since 1604, the French Catholic settlers. For the next 150 years took place many wars between New England and New France and their native allies, concluded with the defeat of French by British in North America (1763), but despite this, Nova Scotia remained primarily occupied by Catholic Acadians and Mi'kmaq. Although it was considered "the 14th American Colony", Nova Scotia doesn't joined the colonists in American Revolution (1776–1783), it supporting the British.