Timeless Canada

Alexander Graham Bell was born in 1847 in Scotland. Bell’s mother was deaf, and, as a child, he became fascinated by speech and communication. In 1870, Bell and his family moved to Ontario. (daha fazla…)

The only city on Cape Breton Island, Sydney is the third largest town in Nova Scotia. Boasting the biggest steel plant in North America, the town is the region’s industrial center. (daha fazla…)

This vibrant town is the largest Acadian community in Nova Scotia. Its beautiful Saint Pierre Church is visible from miles out at sea. The Acadians of Cape Breton are skilled craftspeople, and the town’s seven cooperatives produce pottery and hooked rugs. (daha fazla…)

Created in 1836, the Public Gardens are a beautiful 7-hectares (17-acre) oasis of Victorian greenery and color in a bustling city. A peaceful place to stroll, the gardens’ paths wind past duck ponds, fountains, and a seemingly endless array of vivid flowerbeds. (daha fazla…)

The current home of Nova Scotia’s lieutenant-general, this beautiful building is not open to the public but well worth exterior inspection for its historic and architectural interest. (daha fazla…)

This harbourfront museum offers extensive displays on Nova Scotia’s seafaring history, including small craft, a restored chandlery, and, at the dock outside, the elegantly refitted 1913 research vessel Acadia. (daha fazla…)

A TOUR ALONG the Eastern Shore is a trip through old-world Nova Scotia, through towns and villages where life has changed little since the turn of the 20th century. The tiny house and farm that comprise the Fisherman’s Life Museum in Jeddore, Oyster Ponds (60 km/37 miles east of Halifax) was the home of an inshore fisherman, his wife, and 13 daughters around 1900. (daha fazla…)

THE GRACEFUL Peggy’s Cove Lighthouse stands atop wave-worn granite rocks and is one of the most photographed sights in Canada, a symbol of Nova Scotia’s enduring bond with the sea. (daha fazla…)

NO TOWN CAPTURES the seafaring romance of Nova Scotia as much as Lunenburg. In the mid-1700s the British, eager for another loyal settlement, laid out a town plan for Lunenburg. They then offered the land to Protestant settlers from Germany. (daha fazla…)

A PROSPEROUS TOWN at the hub of Nova Scotia’s major transportation routes, Truro is also the site of a unique geographical phenomenon, the tidal bore. As the Great Fundy tides return landward, sweeping into the Minas Basin, they generate a wave or “bore” that is driven for several kilometers up the rivers that empty into the back of the basin. (daha fazla…)