One thing often leads to another

Alexander Graham Bell Museum Baddeck, Nova Scotia On our way to Cape Breton, we stopped off in Baddeck to see the Graham Bell Museum. The Bell Family How often do you hear that they found that something worked while taking medication for something else. Quite a bit. Alexander Graham Bell is known for inventing the […]

The Cabot Trail

Cape Breton Highlands National Park, NS 25/7/16-30/7/16 The Cabot Trail As usual, when we need to go somewhere we put the address in our GPS and go. Most of the time this works well. But sometimes it thinks it’s doing us a favour by taking the quickest or shortest route. On the way to Chéticamp, […]

The History of the Fortress of Louisbourg

Louisbourg, Nova Scotia If you are up to it, here is the long version …. I’m not sure how accurate it is, but it makes a good story. In 1715 the French lose their fishing bases in Newfoundland and Acadia (Nova Scotia) with the war that ends the Spanish secession. They receive two islands – […]

Stepping back into the C18th

Louisbourg, Nova Scotia 23 July 2016 From Halifax we drove to Sydney, Nova Scotia. We had good roads, with three lanes, one for each way and a third that alternated as a passing lane for each way. Louisbourg Lighthouse in the fog Louisbourg is about a 40 minute drive from Sydney. I knew there was […]

The impenetrable fort

Halifax, Nova Scotia 22 July 2016 From Peggy’s Cove it was only an hour to Halifax. We had to cross the Macdonald Bridge so had pay the modest toll of $C1.75 for 4 axles, it’s only $1 for a car. I had wanted to photograph the bridge but they had blocked off the pedestrian crossing […]

Everyone comes to see the lighhouse

Peggy’s Cove, Nova Scotia 20 July 2016 Peggy’s Cove Lighthouse From Lunenburg we drove about an hour to Peggy’s Cove. A pretty little seaside village who survives on fishing and tourism from the lighthouse. We went there during the day, at dusk and at dawn. There are lots of tourists there, all having their photo […]

Life of a soldier in the C18th

Life of a soldier at the Louisbourg Fortress Most of the soldiers were recruited from the streets of France. They were promised lots of food, good living conditions, lots of money and lots of women, the reality was a little bit different. They were paid 9 livre a month but had to pay 7½ livre […]

Colourful houses in a seaside village

Lunenburg, Nova Scotia 17-19 July, 2016 Fort Cumberland to Lunenburg is three hours, so with our stop at Fort Cumberland, it stretched our driving day of 432kms until about 4pm. We hadn’t done any Walmart stopovers since coming into Canada, but decided to stop in Bridgewater with the intent of moving onto an RV park […]

The Acadians were sent packing

16 July 2016 From Fundy National Park we made our way on dual lane highways to Nova Scotia. Just before the border is a national historic site called Fort Cumberland. If our national parks pass didn’t include it, we probably wouldn’t have stopped, and I’m glad we did. The road between New Brunswick and Nova […]

Canada Parks emblem is the beaver

Fundy National Park 10-17 July 2016 Cape Enrage Lighthouse If we didn’t book our campsite in advance, we would not have got in, as it was we only had three sites to choose from as we wanted water and electric and the descriptions of all the sites said they had a moderate slope. I don’t […]