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Central Park is an example using Mary's Point stone). The Mary's Point quarry yielded about 4,000 tons of stone annually, valued for its durability and workability. Geologically, the bedrock is a continuation of
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Shepody Bay. It is characterized by extensive intertidal
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558:"The Annotated Ramsar List: Canada"
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903:Bodies of water of New Brunswick
883:Protected areas of New Brunswick
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852:Whooping Crane Summer Range
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592:For Love of Stone: Volume 1
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832:Southern Bight-Minas Basin
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345:Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
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604:Description of the quarry
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174:Canadian Wildlife Service
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349:Welsford-Parker Monument
302:History of New Brunswick
185:semipalmated sandpipers
158:Fundy biosphere reserve
878:Ramsar sites in Canada
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259:short-billed dowitcher
255:white-rumped sandpiper
219:Ducks Unlimited Canada
170:National Wildlife Area
792:Peace–Athabasca Delta
530:"Shorebirds of Fundy"
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717:Grand Codroy Estuary
672:Baie de l'Isle-Verte
247:black-bellied plover
192:Government of Canada
353:Halifax Court House
282:American black duck
263:semipalmated plover
235:Corophium volutator
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908:Wetlands of Canada
893:Quarries in Canada
837:Southern James Bay
822:Rasmussen Lowlands
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702:Delta Marsh
337:George Lang
231:crustaceans
162:Shepody Bay
99:24 May 1982
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38:Coordinates
867:Categories
742:Long Point
572:2008-06-03
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510:2008-06-06
478:2008-06-06
453:2008-06-06
432:2008-06-03
363:References
343:, now the
300:See also:
271:sanderling
206:This open
196:salt marsh
181:shorebirds
96:Designated
842:St. Clair
687:Chignecto
217:In 1979,
208:peninsula
202:Geography
449:. UNESCO
389:25 April
359:(1862).
267:red knot
212:mudflats
341:Halifax
296:History
150:Moncton
126:wetland
50:64°45′W
47:45°44′N
660:Ramsar
382:Ramsar
320:quarry
275:dunlin
146:Harvey
138:Canada
225:Fauna
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