Parc National de Miguasha

The Miguasha National Park is located in Miguasha, Québec, a small community about an hour drive from home.

The name Miguasha is an adaptation of a Micmac word megoasag meaning rock, red cliff. This exceptional palaeontological site was discovered in 1842. Researchers from all over the world have come here to study fossil specimens dating back 380 million years, the Devonian period. The Miguasha site is considered the world's most outstanding illustration of that Period, also known as the "Age of Fishes".

Miguasha Park opened in 1978. It was decreted world heritage site by UNESCO. The site is very well set up with its indoor exhibit hall and its park outside. Guided visits to the cliff are offered.

We had a meeting there today and I took this opportunity to quickly visit the exhibition.