Nova Scotia

“_And if he took ship, lo! it was the wrong ship; and when he had got upon the land the road led him backward, or to the right or to the left, so that with doubling and turning...

It is a fact worth emphasis, but too little considered, that New Scotland sprang, as it were, direct from the loins of Old Scotland, and that both Old and New England looked on...

One finds it difficult, briefly by means of analogy, to describe this peninsula of New Scotland. Yet it may not unfairly be compared to Old Scotland. Many of the features of the...

In the exact middle of the peninsula of Nova Scotia a triangular piece of land juts out into the Atlantic. To this second peninsula is attached a third, and upon this narrow roc...

How many towns are there which make one regret that necessity which compels the visitor to approach them froml their ugliest side. One can enter Oxford or Canterbury, to mention...

One of the pleasantest features of New Scotland is the number and variety of its wild-flowers. Outside the dwellings in “the Valley” one’s eye constantly met with and was refres...

The use of oxen for draught purposes is characteristic of Nova Scotia. It is practised by French, Germans, and English, and is so common nowhere in Canada. Along the country roa...

An odour of sanctity, permeating current speech and manners, is characteristic of New Scotland. But religion is less narrow, less austere, than in New England. One familiar expr...

There are, apart from the capital, five famous historical shrines in New Scotland—Annapolis Royal, Louisbourg, Grand Pré, Fort Lawrence, and Shelburne. How many English readers...

When all is said of Nova Scotia’s varied resources of farm and factory, and mine and forest, there is still to be told the tale garnished with adventure of the great and abiding...

To me Truro had a twofold interest. The first was that it was the chief scene of the propaganda of that extraordinary Irishman, Colonel M’Nutt, who figures so largely in that Ro...

Old Scotland has no advantage over New Scotland in the matter of coal. My first introduction to Nova Scotia’s coal was made at Stellarton, in what are called the Pictou coal-fie...

There are few pseudo-historical anecdotes which stand out more vividly in the pages of history than that which Smollett tells of the eccentric Duke of Newcastle crying out to a...

“No,” I replied, as visions of various individuals from Sir Algernon Sidney to Mr. Albert Sidney floated in my mind, only to be rejected as inappropriate. “I can’t say that I do...

I found it a far different thing arriving at Louisbourg by land from arriving by sea. In the latter case, one enjoys a rapid _coup d’œil_ from the moment one turns Lighthouse Po...

Skirting the south coast of Cape Breton one comes to one of the places where Cape Breton gains an additional island by the presence of a narrow water passage between two section...

In the county of Cumberland, on the south-western side of the narrow isthmus severing the Bay of Fundy from Northumberland Straits, and on the edge of the Province, surrounded b...