CANADA - SGang Gwaay

Postcard sent in a direct swap by Liz. 
Sent 03/03/2023.

INSCRIPTION/INSCRITO: 1981

The village of Ninstints (Nans Dins) is located on a small island off the west coast of the Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii). Remains of houses, together with carved mortuary and memorial poles, illustrate the Haida people's art and way of life. The site commemorates the living culture of the Haida people and their relationship to the land and sea, and offers a visual key to their oral traditions. On the island of SG̱ang Gwaay, the remains of large cedar long houses, together with a number of carved mortuary and memorial poles at the village of SG̱ang Gwaay Llnagaay (formerly Nan Sdins), illustrate the art and way of life of the Haida. The property commemorates the living culture of the Haidaand their relationship with the land and sea. It also offers a visual key to their oral traditions. The village of SG̱ang Gwaay was occupied until shortly after 1880. What survives is unique in the world, a 19th-century Haida village where the ruins of houses and memorial or mortuary poles illustrate the power and artistry of Haida society.

Thank you for sharing one of your short stories, Liz!

CANADA - Nahanni National Park

Postcard sent by jasondavid in a direct swap.
Sent 27/02/2023.

INSCRIPTION/INSCRITO: 1978

Located along the South Nahanni River, one of the most spectacular wild rivers in North America, this park contains deep canyons and huge waterfalls, as well as a unique limestone cave system. The park is also home to animals of the boreal forest, such as wolves, grizzly bears and caribou. Dall's sheep and mountain goats are found in the park's alpine environment. Nahanni National Park World Heritage property, located in Canada’s Northwest Territories, is a 470,000 hectare undisturbed natural area of deep river canyons cutting through mountain ranges, with huge waterfalls and complex cave systems. The geomorphology of the property is outstanding in its wealth of form and complexity of evolution. Fluvial processes and features predominate. Within the property are examples of almost every distinct category of river or stream that is known, along with one of North America’s most impressive waterfalls, Virginia Falls. The Flat River and South Nahanni River are older than the mountains they dissect and have produced the finest examples of river canyons in the world, north of 60º. The injection of igneous rock through tectonic activity has resulted in spectacular granitic peaks.

Thank you for this beautiful card, Jason. I love the card! The first one from you in almost 6 years! It's nice that we keep in touch.😁

CANADA - Landscape of Grand Pré

Postcard sent by me JasonDavid in a Direct Swap

Sent- 03 of December of 2017.

INSCRIPTION/INSCRITO: 2012

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. Over 1,300 ha, the cultural landscape encompasses a large expanse of polder farmland and archaeological elements of the towns of Grand Pré and Hortonville, which were built by the Acadians and their successors. The landscape is an exceptional example of the adaptation of the first European settlers to the conditions of the North American Atlantic coast. The site – marked by one of the most extreme tidal ranges in the world, averaging 11.6 m – is also inscribed as a memorial to Acadian way of life and deportation, which started in 1755, known as the Grand Dérangement.

The Grand Pré ‘marshland’ and the remains of the associated old villages constitute a cultural landscape bearing testimony to a remarkable effort, over many centuries, using the polder technique to develop agricultural farmland, in a maritime location with extreme tides. In particular, it demonstrates the permanency of its hydraulic drainage system using dykes and aboiteaux and its agricultural use through a community-based management system established by the Acadians and then taken over by the Planters and their modern successors. Grand Pré is also testimony to the history of the Acadians in the 17th and 18th centuries and their deportation.

Grand Pré forms a vast area of polders or marshlands, in which the land division and crop farming methods have continued for three centuries. It is the most important example of its type in North America. The farming landscape is complemented by the strip land division method along the coastal area, bearing testimony to 17th century French colonization. The hydraulic system is based on an exemplary ensemble of dykes, aboiteaux to evacuate the water, and a drainage network. These techniques and community-based management have continued through to today. The property includes archaeological remains of the villages of Grand Pré and Hortonville that testify to the settlements and lifestyles of the Acadian settlers and their successors. The property and its landscape include traces of the major pathways that crossed the marshland and organized the adjacent coastal area. The locations of Grand Pré village and Horton Landing have memorial buildings and monuments erected in the 20th century in homage to the Acadian ancestors and their deportation, starting in 1755. The overall property forms the symbolic reference landscape for the Acadian memory and the main site for its commemoration.

 Thank you Jason!

CANADA - Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump

Postcard sent by me JasonDavid in a Direct Swap

Sent- 03 of December of 2017.

INSCRIPTION/INSCRITO: 1981

In south-west Alberta, the remains of marked trails and an aboriginal camp, and a tumulus where vast quantities of buffalo (American Bison) skeletons can still be found, are evidence of a custom practised by aboriginal peoples of the North American plains for nearly 6,000 years. Using their excellent knowledge of the topography and of buffalo behaviour, they killed their prey by chasing them over a precipice; the carcasses were later carved up in the camp below.

The significance of the landscape of Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump lies in its historical, archaeological and scientific interest. The deep, undisturbed layers of animal bones (largely American Bison) represent nearly 6,000 years of continuous occupation with one lengthy period of unexplained interrupted hunting. This landscape is an outstanding example of subsistence hunting that continued into the late 19th century and which still forms part of the ‘traditional knowledge base’ of the Plains nations. It throws valuable light on the way of life and practices of traditional hunting cultures elsewhere in the world.

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump is located in southern Alberta, Canada, where the foothills of the Rocky Mountains meet the Great Plains. It is the best preserved example of the communal hunting techniques and of the way of life of the Plains people based on the vast herds of bison that existed in North America for more than five millennia. A remarkable testimony of pre-European contact life in North America, this bison jump bears witness to a sophisticated custom practiced by Indigenous people of the North American plains. These people, drawing on their excellent understanding of bison behaviour and topography, used natural barriers such as coulees, depressions and hills to funnel these animals into drive lanes that ended at a precipice, over which the bison were stampeded. The animals’ carcasses were then butchered in a camp set up below the cliff to provide food and the materials for clothing, tools and dwellings. The development of complex social and technological systems to systematically and repeatedly harvest the herds in a communal hunt also nourished spiritual interests. Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump is the most outstanding of the surviving bison jumps in the Americas in use from approximately 5,800 years BP until AD 1850. On this grassy, windswept 3,626-ha landscape can be seen the drive lanes that led the bison toward the jump (including the remains of stone markers used to direct the bison toward the cliff), the 10-m-high cliff face that served as the actual jump, the foot of the cliff where numerous undisturbed stratified layers of bone and cultural deposits are found, and the area encompassing the many butchering camps established through the millennia.

 Thank you Jason!

CANADA - Historic District of Old Québec

Postal enviada por Marie en un Spain x World RR.

Envío - 31 de Octubre del 2015.

INSCRIPTION/INSCRITO: 1985

Québec was founded by the French explorer Champlain in the early 17th century. It is the only North American city to have preserved its ramparts, together with the numerous bastions, gates and defensive works which still surround Old Québec. The Upper Town, built on the cliff, has remained the religious and administrative centre, with its churches, convents and other monuments like the Dauphine Redoubt, the Citadel and Château Frontenac. Together with the Lower Town and its ancient districts, it forms an urban ensemble which is one of the best examples of a fortified colonial city.

Fundada a comienzos del siglo XVII por el explorador francés Champlain, la ciudad vieja de Quebec está rodeada por una muralla con múltiples baluartes, puertas y fortificaciones, y es la única ciudad de América del Norte que la ha conservado intacta. La Ciudad Alta, edificada en la cima del acantilado, es aún el centro religioso y administrativo y posee numerosas iglesias, conventos y otros monumentos como el reducto Dauphine, la ciudadela y el castillo Frontenac. Junto con los barrios viejos de la Ciudad Baja, forma un conjunto urbano que es un excelente ejemplo una ciudad colonial fortificada.
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/300

Thanks for this beautiful card Marie!

CANADA - Waterton Glacier International Peace Park

Postal enviada por  Natasha en un "UNESCO RR".

Envío - 22 de Octumbre del 2015.

INSCRIPTION/INSCRITO: 1995

In 1932 Waterton Lakes National Park (Alberta, Canada) was combined with the Glacier National Park (Montana, United States) to form the world's first International Peace Park. Situated on the border between the two countries and offering outstanding scenery, the park is exceptionally rich in plant and mammal species as well as prairie, forest, and alpine and glacial features.

En 1932, el Parque Nacional de Waterton Lakes (Provincia de Alberta, Canadá) y el Parque Nacional de Glacier (Estado de Montana, EE.UU.) se fusionaron para formar “el primer parque internacional de la paz del mundo”. Situado a ambos lados de la frontera entre el Canadá y los Estados Unidos, este parque posee paisajes de excepcional belleza y una gran variedad de especies vegetales y mamíferos, así como praderas, bosques y formaciones geológicas alpinas y glaciares.
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/354

Thanks for the card Natasha! I love it!

CANADA - Red Bay Basque Whaling Station

Postal enviada por Jason (Jasondavidforum) a cambio de una UNESCO de España.

Envío - 31 de Agosto de 2015.

INSCRIPTION/INSCRITO: 2001

Red Bay, established by Basque mariners in the 16th century at the north-eastern tip of Canada on the shore of the Strait of Belle Isle is an archaeological site that provides the earliest, most complete and best preserved testimony of the European whaling tradition. Gran Baya, as it was called by those who founded the station in 1530s, was used as a base for coastal hunting, butchering, rendering of whale fat by heading to produce oil and storage. It became a major source of whale oil which was shipped to Europe where it was used for lighting. The site, which was used in the summer months, includes remains of rendering ovens, cooperages, wharves, temporary living quarters and a cemetery, together with underwater remains of vessels and whale bone deposits. The station was used for some 70 years, before the local whale population was depleted.

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1412

Thanks for this card Jason. Awesome card, like always!

CANADA - Dinosaur Provincial Park

Postal enviada por Tina (ButtonsansTins) a cambio de una UNESCO de España.

Envío - 23 de Marzo del 2016.

INSCRIPTION/INSCRITO: 1980

Seventy-five million years ago, what is now eastern Alberta was a low-lying coastal plain at the edge of a large shallow sea. The climate was subtropical, similar to northern Florida today. Countless creatures flourished there - fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, primitive mammals and about 35 species of dinosaur. When some of these animals died, they lay in river channels and mud flats so their bones were buried in new layers of sand and mud. Over time, a combination of pressure, lack of oxygen and deposition of minerals produced fossils - impressions of the bones, teeth and skin of those creatures that once roamed ancient Alberta. Over more time, new layers of sediments covered the fossils and preserved them.

And so it was until the end of the latest Ice Age, 13,000 years ago, a mere wink in geological time, when glacial ice scraped off the upper layers of rock. Huge volumes of meltwater carved deep into the soft sandstone and mudstone strata, exposing the fossil-bearing sediments and, in the process, creating the Red Deer River Valley. Its haunting hoodoos, isolated mesas and low-lying coulees are at the heart of Alberta’s badlands and contain the greatest concentration of Late Cretaceous dinosaur fossils yet found on Earth.
-https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/culture/spm-whs/sites-canada/sec02c

Unesco con sello Unesco,

Thanks for the card and the stamps Tina!

CANADA - Kluane / Wrangell-St. Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek

Postal enviada por Kostos a cambio de una UNESCO de España.

Envío - 31 de Agosto del 2015.

INSCRIPTION/INSCRITO: 1979
EXTENSION: 1992, 1994

These parks comprise an impressive complex of glaciers and high peaks on both sides of the border between Canada (Yukon Territory and British Columbia) and the United States (Alaska). The spectacular natural landscapes are home to many grizzly bears, caribou and Dall's sheep. The site contains the largest non-polar icefield in the world.

Este impresionante conjunto de glaciares y picos elevados está situado a ambos lados de la frontera entre el Canadá (Territorio del Yukón y Columbia Británica) y los Estados Unidos de América (Alaska). Sus espectaculares paisajes naturales son refugio de numerosos osos grizzli, caribúes y muflones de Dall. El sitio cuenta además con el campo de hielo más vasto del mundo situado fuera de la zona polar.

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/72

Thanks for another beautiful card Jason!

CANADA - Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks

Postal enviada por Jason David a cambio de una UNESCO de España.

Envío - 31 de Agosto del 2015.

INSCRIPTION/INSCRITO: 1984
EXTENSION: 1990

The contiguous national parks of Banff, Jasper, Kootenay and Yoho, as well as the Mount Robson, Mount Assiniboine and Hamber provincial parks, studded with mountain peaks, glaciers, lakes, waterfalls, canyons and limestone caves, form a striking mountain landscape. The Burgess Shale fossil site, well known for its fossil remains of soft-bodied marine animals, is also found there.

Los parques contiguos de Banff, Jasper, Kootenay y Yoho, junto con los parques provinciales de Monte Robson, Monte Assiniboine y Hamber, constituyen una inmensa zona de cumbres, glaciares, lagos, cascadas, cañones y grutas calcáreas que forman un paisaje montañoso espectacular. Aquí se encuentra el yacimiento fosilífero de Burgess Shale, famoso por los restos de animales marinos de cuerpo blando que contiene.
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/304

Thanks for another awesome card Jason!

Postcard 2:

Postcard sent by Tina

Sent 23/03/2016.

Thanks for the wonderful card Tina!

CANADA - Rideau Canal

Postal enviada por Jason David a cambio de una UNESCO de España.

Envío - 06 de Agosto del 2015.

INSCRIPTION/INSCRITO: 2007

The Rideau Canal, a monumental early 19th-century construction covering 202 km of the Rideau and Cataraqui rivers from Ottawa south to Kingston Harbour on Lake Ontario, was built primarily for strategic military purposes at a time when Great Britain and the United States vied for control of the region. The site, one of the first canals to be designed specifically for steam-powered vessels, also features an ensemble of fortifications. It is the best-preserved example of a slackwater canal in North America, demonstrating the use of this European technology on a large scale. It is the only canal dating from the great North American canal-building era of the early 19th century to remain operational along its original line with most of its structures intact.

Este monumental canal de principios del siglo XIX se extiende a lo largo de 202 kilómetros por los cursos de los rí­os Rideau y Cataraqui, siguiendo una trayectoria sur, desde Ottawa hasta el puerto de Kingston, situado en el lago Ontario. Se construyó con fines principalmente militares y estratégicos, en una época en que la Gran Bretaña y los Estados Unidos de América se disputaban el control de la región. Fue uno de los primeros canales diseñados ex profeso para la navegación de barcos de vapor y posee un conjunto importante de fortificaciones. De todas las ví­as de agua de América de Norte creadas con el sistema ”slackwater“ es la mejor conservada y las mí¡s ilustrativa de la utilización a gran escala de esta técnica europea en la región. Asimismo, es el único canal del periodo de auge de estas obras de ingenierí­a en América del Norte –principios del siglo XIX– que no sólo sigue siendo operacional a lo largo de todo su recorrido primitivo, sino que ademí¡s conserva intactas casi todas sus estructuras primigenias.
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1221

Ojalá todas las postales que me llegaran fueran como las que me envía Jason David, siempre están muy completas! En anecdotas, sellos (muchos y muy variados) y en calidad de postal; Todo esto en una composición que crea un conjunto genial! ¡Así da gusto!

Thanks for the awesome card Jason! Your cards always make me smile.