Acadian groups have proposed a new national park on the Chignecto Isthmus, partially in hopes of securing federal support to protect the dykeland system from increasing risk of flooding due to extreme storms and sea level rise.
“It would be a really nice way to recognize our history and heritage,” says director of the Société de l’Acadie du Nouveau-Brunswick, Nicole Arseneau-Sluyter. “And for economic purposes, being that the connection between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, for the rest of Canada.”
But there are some concerns the idea could complicate the protection of the Isthmus. Leon Landry, president of the Cumberland Acadian Society, likes the idea of a Chignecto Isthmus National Park, but is worried that attaching a new national park to the protection of the isthmus could “create more red tape.”
