Pimachiowin Aki
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How it came to be
Pimachiowin Aki, Ojibwe for 'the land that gives life', is an area of boreal forest straddling Manitoba and Ontario in Canada. It covers 2,904,000 ha at the headwaters of the Berens, Bloodvein, Pigeon and Poplar rivers, and includes Atikaki Provincial Park in Manitoba and Woodland Caribou Provincial Park in Ontario. Anishinaabeg people have used this and neighbouring land for more than 7,000 years.
It is the ancestral land of four First Nations: Bloodvein River, Little Grand Rapids, Pauingassi and Poplar River. Their people live in four small permanent communities and move widely across the landscape. At the heart of this is the tradition of Ji-ganawendamang Gidakiiminaan, 'keeping the land': honouring the Creator's gifts, respecting the land and all its life, and keeping harmonious relations with other people.
The project began with the signing of the Protected Areas and First Nation Resource Stewardship Accord in 2002 and was added to Canada's tentative list in 2004. A nomination submitted in 2013 was deferred, and in 2016, when inscription was expected, Canada asked for another deferral after the Pikangikum First Nation in Ontario withdrew its support. In 2018 the World Heritage Committee, meeting for its 42nd session in Manama, Bahrain, inscribed the site with four of the five original First Nations taking part.
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