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Whale-Watching
Seasmoke Whale-Watching
There are no other tours on earth quite like ours!
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Bed & Breakkfasts
Greenwoods inn
Green Woods Inn is a beautifully converted Victorian country home sitting in two acres of grounds surrounded by lakes, rivers and countryside in an area steeped in Ontario's history.
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312 Seaton
312 Seaton, is a detached Victorian home on a quiet tree lined street in downtown Toronto‚s historical "Cabbagetown".
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Accomodation on the Beach
Alert bay, BC
250. 974 5225
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A Good Knight B&B
Calgary, Alberta
Tel.
403.270 7628
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Nova Scotia
Destination profile
Nova Scotia is a Canadian province located on Canada's southeastern coast. It is the most populous province in the Maritimes, and its capital, Halifax, is the economic and cultural centre of the region.
Its name is Latin for New Scotland and it is called Alba Nuadh in Canadian Gaelic and Neuschottland in German.
History
The territory now known as Nova Scotia was called Gespogwitg in the Mi'kmaq language and was home to the Mi'kmaq people when the first European colonists arrived. In 1604, French colonists estabished the first permanent European settlement north of Florida at Port Royal, founding what would become known as Acadia.
The British Empire obtained control of the region between 1713 and 1760, and established the new capital at Halifax in 1749. Nova Scotia was one of the founding four provinces to join Confederation with Canada in 1867.
Local fact - The Lost Treasure
In November 1761, a furious storm sent the merchant ship Auguste to its doom, taking with it 114 people bound for France and all of their earthly possessions. One of seven survivors, Monsieur St. Luc de la Corne, made an epic trek of almost one-thousand miles in the dead of a Canadian winter back to his family in Montreal.
Almost 250 years later, what is left of the Auguste and her valuable cargo of gold and silver lies on the bottom of Cape Breton's Aspy Bay. Underwater explorer, Joe Amaral, and his team have sifted through the sands of Aspy Bay looking for treasure and answers to what really happened during this devastating shipwreck. So far, they have found several cannon, lead sheathing from repairs to the ship, a few coins, and a spoon.
EXTERNAL LINKS
Official links
* Government of Nova Scotia
* Nova Scotia - Come To Life
* Tourism Nova Scotia
* Nova Scotia Provincial Parks
* Complete government directory
Other links
* BluPete's History of Nova Scotia
* Nova Scotia hiking & tourism info
* Explore Nova Scotia Tourism info
* Diving in Nova Scotia Ocean Playground of Canada
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