Fundy National Park

New Brunswick

Bay of Fundy

Canada

Mercedes Mackay & Kelsey Murphy

Brochure

Latitude:

45 N

Longitude:

64 W

• ENTRYDaily

• * Adult$7.80 * Senior$6.80 * Youth$3.90 * Family/Group$19.60 * Commercial Group, per person$5.80 School Groups, per student$2.90 School Groups, Entry and a Heritage Presentation Special Program, per student$3.90 Annual Early Bird

• * Adult$31.40 * Senior$27.40 * Youth$15.70 * Family/Group$78.50 Up to June 14.

For entrance into the park, there is a fee to help keep the park in order and keep everything preserved. The fees are:

Animal Species

The Park is home to:

• 260 Bird species

• 4 species of snakes

• 7 salamander types

• Large variety of frogs

• 38 other species such as snowshoe hare, Squirrel and chipmunk, deer, moose, black bear and beaver just to name a few.

The moose is the largest animal in Fundy National Park.

• Fundy National Park is not only home to a large variety of animals. It also provides security for the salmon population to continue to replenish.

Vegetation

• The Parks forests are a mix of several types of vegetation, the main types being red spruce, balsam fir, yellow birch, white birch and maples.

• The forest floor is also covered with carpets of moss, wood fern and bunchberry which is very common.

Climate

• The summers in the park are cool and the winters mild. The average summer temperature is about 22 C° in the park interior, however it can be up to 6 C° cooler on the same day on the nearby coast.

History• European settlement began in the Fundy area around

1825. • Acadians had arrived in the 1600s. The land and climate

was not very inviting, rocky, acidic soils with cool summers and harsh winters made it hard to live off the land.

• Many immigrants received land grants on the highlands where conditions were not good for farming, and many abandoned their land within a generation.

• This area was chosen as New Brunswick's first national park, in 1948, both to stimulate the economy and to preserve the area's natural beauty.

• Fundy National Park was proclaimed in the Canada Gazette on April 10, 1948, and the Honorable James Allison Glen was the minister responsible.

Bibliography

• http://www.pc.gc.ca/pnnp/nb/fundy/index_e.asp

• http://images.google.com

• http://www.fundyweb.com/fundy/

• http://www.deborahcarr.ca/fundycoast/fnp.htm