Anticosti Island a candidate for UNESCO world heritage status

The federal government has added Anticosti Island to its Tentative List for World Heritage Sites, and the local mayor is overjoyed by the news.
Federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna made the announcement Wednesday morning.
The criterion for selection of the island that best supported Anticosti’s candidacy was the presence of fossils, according to the Parks Canada website, which notes the geological eras represented by the specimens have “no equivalent” elsewhere on the