world's highest tides. Demographics Grand-Pré has no official status; there are only specific data for subdivision D of Kings County, which includes the area between Hantsport and Wolfville, where Grand-Pré and a few other villages exist. In this area, there were 5499 inhabitants in 2006, compared to 5167 in 2001, an increase of 6.4%. The average age is 44.5, compared to 41.8 for the province. 84.8% of the population is older than 15 years, which is in the provincial average. With regard to language, 96.6% of the inhabitants are English-speaking, 1.4% are francophone and 2.0% are allophones. The francophone population is anglicized as 99.3% of the population speak English at home. With respect to knowledge of official languages, 7.2% of the population can communicate in French at various levels, the rest being unilingual anglophone. Notable people Grand-Pré is the birthplace of Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden. References External links Société Promotion Grand-Pré - The National Historic Site Grand-Pré National Historic Site Landscape of Grand Pré World Heritage Site Explore the Landscape of Grand Pré in the UNESCO collection on Google Arts and Culture Acadian Ancestral Home - a Repository for Acadian History & Genealogy including Grand-Pré Communities in Kings County, Nova Scotia Acadian history Acadian communities Conflicts in Nova Scotia General Service Areas in Nova Scotia World Heritage Sites in Canada Dikes in Canada 1680 establishments in the French colonial empire