This has been an amazing trip. It has inspired a love of history and geography in the girls and it has left us all with several wonderful family memories. Tonight we went back to Peggy’s Cove and said good bye to Nova Scotia. We wrapped up the evening with a wonderful fish and chip dinner, topped off with our first taste of Newfoundland fries.
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From the website: Grand-Pré National Historic Site of Canada commemorates Grand-Pré area as a centre of Acadian settlement from 1682 to 1755 and the Deportation of the Acadians, which began in 1755 and continued until 1762. Similar to the Citadel, we did the Explorer program. This program was geared at the little girls and it asked them several questions that...
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This is an outstanding example of the a National Historic Site. It is beautiful, well maintained and the programming is excellent. We did the self guided adventure tour ( no additional costs) and the kids became spies in the Citadel. The comic book provides the back ground story and leads the children to all aspects of the fort to discover clues. Upon our...
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From the website: Point Pleasant Park lies on a rocky 75-hectare (185 acre) promontory jutting into the Atlantic Ocean at the eastern end of the Halifax peninsula, in Nova Scotia, Canada. This park has been a place of recreation for the citizens of Halifax since the city’s founding in 1749. Before that, it was a hunting, fishing, and ceremonial area for the...
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