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Site,Location,Criteria,"Areaha (acre)",Year,DescriptionCanadian Rocky Mountain Parks,Alberta and British Columbia,Natural,"2,306,884 (5,700,430)",1984,"With high peaks, glaciers, lakes, waterfalls, canyons and limestone caves, the National Parks that make up this site exemplify the exceptional features of the Rocky Mountains. Furthermore, one of the world's most celebrated fossil fields, the Burgess Shale Formation is located within the inscribed property."Dinosaur Provincial Park,Alberta,Natural,"7,493 (18,520)",1979,"The park is noted for the beauty of its badland landscape and as a major fossil site. Specimens of every group of cretaceous dinosaurs have been found here including those of 35 species dating more than75 million years ago."Gros Morne National Park,Newfoundland and Labrador,Natural,"180,500 (446,000)",1987,"With deep ocean crust and rocks of the earth's mantle lying exposed, park illustrates plate tectonics. Landlocked freshwater fjords, glacier-scoured headlands in an ocean setting contribute to the natural beauty of this wilderness area."Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump,Alberta,Cultural,-,1981,"The property consists of remains of a camp, of trails and a tumulus of bones of the bison bearing testimony to nearly 6000 years of communal hunting in which the bisons were driven over a cliff, a practice known as buffalo jump."Historic District of Old Quebec,"Quebec City, Quebec",Cultural,-,1985,"Founded by the French in the 17th century, the urban ensemble of Old Quebec is the most complete example of a European fortified town north of Mexico."Joggins Fossil Cliffs,Nova Scotia,Natural,"689 (1,700)",2008,"This paleontological site contains the most complete terrestrial fossil record of the Carboniferous period including tracks of early animals and of the rainforest they lived in.""Kluane , Wrangell-St Elias , Glacier Bay , Tatshenshini-Alsek","CanadaBritish Columbia and Yukon Alaska, United States",Natural,"9,839,121 (24,313,000)",1979,"These parks comprise the world's largest non-polar icefield, some of the largest glaciers and a tectonically active mountain landscape. They are home to a number of species endangered elsewhere such as bears, wolves, caribou and Dall sheep."Landscape of Grand-Pre,Nova Scotia,Cultural,"1,323 (3,270)",2012,"The Grand Pr landscape is an exceptional example of the adaptation of the first European settlers to the conditions of the North American Atlantic coast. The site is also inscribed as a memorial to the Acadian way of life and deportation, which started in 1755, known as the Grand Drangement."L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site,Newfoundland and Labrador,Cultural,-,1978,"These remains of an 11th-century Viking settlement are the first and only known of Norse and the earliest known European settlement in America outside of Greenland."Miguasha National Park,"Gaspe Peninsula, Quebec",Natural,87 (210),1999,Mistaken Point,Newfoundland and Labrador,Natural,"570 (1,400)",2016,"Mistaken Point contains the oldest evidence known of early multi-cellular life on the planet with calculated to be 560-575 million years old."Nahanni National Park,Northwest Territories,Natural,"476,560 (1,177,600)",1978,Old Town Lunenburg,Nova Scotia,Cultural,-,1995,Pimachiowin Aki,Manitoba and Ontario,Mixed,"4,015,000 (9,920,000)",2018,"A managed landscape on the ancestral lands of five First Nations peoples. The site was submitted for consideration in 2013. The World Heritage Committee deferred inscription to give the nominators time to improve certain aspects of the bid. "Red Bay Basque Whaling Station,"Red Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador",Cultural,313 (770),2013,"Between 1550 and the early 17th century, Red Bay was a major Basque whaling area. "Rideau Canal,Ontario,Cultural,"21,455 (53,020) ",2007,"The oldest continuously operated canal system in North America, it connects Ottawa, on the Ottawa River, to Kingston, on Lake Ontario. "SGang Gwaay,British Columbia,Cultural,-,1981,Waterton Glacier International Peace Park,"AlbertaMontana, United States",Natural,"457,614 (1,130,790)",1995,Wood Buffalo National Park,Alberta and Northwest Territories,Natural,"4,480,000 (11,100,000)",1983,