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As a result, Bell spent the last half of his life at the estate he built on the shores of the Bras d’Or Lakes.
The livable beauty and draw of Nova Scotia is two-fold. The people-friendly scale of the province and its diversity. Most places in the world have one type of geography or geology, while this speck on the map of North America has some of the greatest diversity on the continent.
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Many places are the same for hours and hours and hundreds and thousands of kilometers. Whereas Nova Scotia changes within a 30-to-60 minutes’ drive. A tri-lingual province (French, English and Gaelic) Nova Scotia is a compact mixture of ocean, farmland, highlands, wetlands and marsh.
Three hundred million years ago it was tropical jungle, swamp, desert, sea floor, home to volcanoes and passed over by a glacier. The result is a wealth of fossils, minerals and land formations.
The entry point to the province from the New Brunswick border to Truro contains some of the world’s richest fossil collections like those at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Joggins. In Parrsboro, the Fundy Geological Museum has a collection of North America’s oldest and smallest dinosaurs.
A short drive away on the Northumberland shore is Pugwash, which contains its own surprise. This village of 784 people is home to the Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs, which won the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize. It’s one of the many small-town surprises found in the province.
In the region from Pictou to Cape Breton, the landscape is so reminiscent of Scotland that Scottish settlers gave it the name Nova (New) Scotia (Scotland).
The Annapolis Valley, which has traditionally been one of Canada’s three main fruit growing areas, along with Niagara and the Okanagan Valley in B.C., has evolved into one of the continent’s new wine regions with a dozen wineries surrounding Wolfville. A 20-minute drive away is a working fishing port, Hall’s Harbour, where visitors can dine on seafood landed mere metres from the restaurant.
Wherever you are, whatever your interest the province’s overriding feature is the water. Nowhere in Nova Scotia are you more than 56 kilometres from the sea, whether it’s the Atlantic Ocean, the Bay of Fundy, Minas Basin, Northumberland Strait or Gulf of St. Lawrence.
The sea has influenced all development, life and recreation here. Communities were built along the coast because boats were the main method of transportation. The French built a great fortress at Louisbourg to give them access to the rich fishing grounds and defend their colony at Quebec from the British Colonies. The British, fearing the might of Louisbourg, engaged in a type of early arms build up and founded Halifax to defend its colonies against the French.
Communities such as Lunenburg and Yarmouth saw great fortunes made from the sea (fishing, shipping, privateering and a little rum running) and as such have the greatest collection of historic heritage buildings. The former capital, Annapolis Royal, is another cluster of ornate, ancient architecture, as well as possessing some of Canada’s bloodiest history.
That should help silence back-seat pouting voices from announcing, “I’m bored.”
Today the sea still feeds the province’s economic engine. But it’s also harnessed for fun. In addition to angling in legendary salmon rivers, like the Margaree, there is deep sea fishing, surfing, whale watching, sea kayaking, swimming (the Northumberland Strait has the warmest waters north of the Carolinas), tubing and tidal bore rafting, as well as walking—and running – on the ocean floor when the Bay of Fundy tides are at their lowest.
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