Travel to Nova Scotia

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As a year round resort, this fall White Point Beach Resort invite you to discover why they say “It’s a great day at White Point” – recreation programs and activities, Great Gals Getaways, Thanksgiving, Holiday Festivities, Theme Weekends and so much more! Explore our site and learn more about what we offer throughout the season and year round accommodation choices, rates, upcoming events and activities, special events, photos – you can even take a virtual tour. You’ll also find full details on their recreation programs and facilities as well as local attractions.

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Born in Windsor, Ontario in 1941, and educated at Mount Allison University, Roger Savage has made Queens County, Nova Scotia his home since 1973. Early in his career he discovered the need to work outdoors and so has traveled extensively in search of his subject – the light and shadow of Nature. On site he prefers to work in watercolour. Occasionally he will sketch in the field, returning to the studio to create prints in silk-screen and lithography.

Within Canada, his site work has included the oysters beds of P.E.I., the primordial granite forms of Cadden Bay, the rhododendrons at Annapolis Royal’s Historic Gardens and the icebergs of Ellesmere Island, N.W.T. Outside of Canada, Savage has painted and exhibited in Sweden, USA, Colombia, Germany, Switzerland, the UK, Canary Islands, Bermuda, Cuba and Crete. Within the Maritimes his work is included in the permanent collections of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia(Halifax), Confederation Centre Art Gallery(Charlottetown), and the Owens Art Gallery(Sackville).

His artwork has also been reproduced on poetry book covers and on two $100 commemorative gold coins (1978, 1981).The artist has lectured and given painting seminars to adults as well as delighted hundreds of children while teaching them the basis of screenprinting. His striking images of the seashore of his home province, translated into postcard miniatures, have brought Nova Scotia to thousands of people.

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Country music star Hank Snow is immortalized in all country music circles, especially Nashville, Tennessee. However, purists and enthusiasts will recognize the Nova Scotia town of Liverpool as the focal point of Hank’s metamorphosis. Because Liverpool is the home of the Hank Snow Country Music Centre

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Clarence Eugene “Hank” Snow was born on May 9th, 1914 in the sleepy fishing village of Brooklyn on Nova Scotia’s beautiful South Shore, just down the tracks from Liverpool. When his parents divorced he was forced to stay with an abusive grandmother who kept him away from his mother. He regularly sneaked out at night and walked down the railroad tracks to Liverpool where his mother was living. At night he would seek refuge at Liverpool’s railway station, now home of the Hank Snow Country Music Centre.

In 1926, to escape his abusive step-father, Hank went to sea as a 12-year-old cabin boy on fishing schooners based out of Lunenburg and never returned to school. He bought his first guitar, a T. Eaton Special for $5.95. While at sea he would learn to mimic Jimmie Rodgers as he listened to his idol the radio. It wasn’t long before Hank had picked up his own style. He entertained friends and neighbors and quickly developed excellent skills as a musician and entertainer at kitchen parties and neighborhood.

In 1933 he doffed the oilskins for a microphone and joined CHNS Radio in Halifax where he had his own radio show. This was when he changed his name to “Hank, The Yodeling Ranger” because it sounded more western. Throughout the 30s and 40s he toured the Maritimes and Western Canada playing at county fairs and local radio stations. Then the U.S. called and he answered, becoming one of the biggest country stars in history.

The Hank Snow Country Music Centre was showcased more than once on TNN shows Today’s Country and This Week in Country Music, and features many personal memorabilia of Nova Scotia’s “native son” Hank Snow (including his 1947 convertible Cadillac) as well as memorabilia from various Canadian country music stars, including Carroll Baker, Wilf Carter, Ronnie Prophet, George Hamilton IV, Lucille Starr and others.

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Just a half-hour south of White Point Beach resort and White Point Manor is the picturesque and historic town of Lockeport. With a population of around 750 all-year it doesn’t seen like a lively place. However, this town has one of the most beautiful settings in the province.

There are five beaches in and around the town, including Crescent Beach, a stunning curving stretch of sand once featured on the back of the Canadian $50 bill. The attractive new visitor centre at Crescent Beach is a good place to start; it offers parking, visitor information, canteen, gift shop, scenic lookoff, change rooms, and shower facilities.

Lockeport is also home to Nova Scotia’s only Registered Historic Streetscape, made up of five houses built by descendants of Jonathan Locke between 1836 and 1876. The houses offer an interesting cross section of historical architecture with excellent examples of Colonial, Georgian and Victorian styles.

A walking-tour guide book is available at the Little School Museum which displays artifacts from early settlers. Lockeport festivals include a Lobster Fest, Lockeport Sea Derby, Canada Day celebrations and the Early Settlers Reunion.

Lockport’s most famous modern citizen is Ellen Page, a star in the Golden Globe-winning movie Juno .

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Liverpool, Nova Scotia has a colorful re-enactment group called The King’s Orange Rangers Society. This was established in 1996 to re-create era from from December 1778 to August 1783 of Captain John Howard’s Company and encourage awareness of an interesting and largely forgotten aspect of community history. This they do by participating in local and regional events and getting together with other Nova Scotia re-enactors of the same period.

The original uniform consisted of the green coat of the Royal Provincials with orange facings which reflect the name of the corps and its roots in the old Dutch communities of New Jersey and New York. Currently, they wear the red coats later issued to most British regiments with orange facings and silver/white lace.

Originally, the regiment was raised in December 1776 by Colonel William Bayard of New York and New Jersey. He received approval from General Howe to establish the King’s Orange Rangers and drew many of early recruits from tenants on his estates in New Jersey.

The regiment saw service at King’s Bridge, Paulus Hook and raids in the vicinity of Passaic. It participated in the successful assault on Fort Washington and the capture of Fort Montgomery in 1777. However, because of insubordination, Bayard and his Regiment were sent to Nova Scotia in November 1778 to help fill the void created when the battalion of marines was returned to duties in the fleet.

The regiment remained in Nova Scotia for the duration providing garrison duty in Halifax and various companies and detachments providing a level of protection to remote settlements such as Liverpool and Lunenburg. The regiment was disbanded at the end of the war and granted lands at Quaco (now St. Martins), New Brunswick.

To learn more about the King’s Orange Rangers visit their website at: http://www.angelfire.com/ns/KingsOrangeRangers/. Additional information can be found on-line at the Loyalist Institute in the King’s Orange Rangers’ Regimental History section of this site.

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