Qualla: Fundy National Park

Fundy National Park: Introduction

Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit James Bates, CC BY 2.0. Twice a day, the ocean floor vanishes. Where dog whelks and periwinkles clung to exposed rock just hours ago, 14 meters of cold Atlantic seawater now covers everything. Then, just as reliably, the Bay of Fundy exhales -- and the floor reappears, wet and glistening, stretching hundreds of meters from the base of the cliffs. This daily act of revelation and concealment defines Fundy National Park, a 207-square-kilometer stretch of New Brunswick coastline where the world's highest tides have been sculpting rock, forest, and human history for millennia.

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Fundy National Park: The Breathing Shore

Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit User:Share Bear~commonswiki, Public domain. The Bay of Fundy funnels an estimated 160 billion tonnes of water through its narrowing channel with every tidal cycle, and by the time that water reaches the park's section of Goose Bay, the difference between high and low tide can exceed 16 meters. The effect is not subtle. At ...

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Fundy National Park: Layers of Belonging

Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit СССР, CC BY-SA 2.5 ca. The Mi'kmaq and Maliseet peoples knew this coast long before Europeans arrived, though the rugged terrain left few traces of permanent settlement. Acadians settled the surrounding area in the early 1700s, establishing the village of Chipoudy -- now Shepody -- in 1710. They farmed...

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Fundy National Park: A Park Born of Disagreement

Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Benwymore, CC BY-SA 4.0. The idea of a national park in New Brunswick first surfaced in 1927, when the provincial Fish and Game Association petitioned Ottawa to protect endangered wildlife. A committee selected six potential sites, but the federal and provincial governments spent a decade arguing over wh...

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Fundy National Park: A Forest Full of Secrets

Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Quintin Soloviev, CC BY 4.0. Fundy's interior holds 658 species of vascular plants, 276 species of bryophytes, and more than 400 species of lichens. The dominant trees -- red spruce, balsam fir, sugar maple, yellow and white birch -- form a mixed-wood canopy over a forest floor dense with moss, wood fern, an...

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Fundy National Park: Trails Through Time

Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Tango7174, CC BY-SA 4.0. Thirty-five hiking trails span more than 100 kilometers through the park, from the gentle boardwalk at Caribou Plains to the demanding Fundy Footpath, which stretches 64 kilometers along the coast to Big Salmon River near St. Martins. The Dobson Trail connects the park to Rivervi...

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