http://www.kimkinrade.com/wpblog Nova Scotia, Tourism, and Travel Issues Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:18:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 © kim.kinrade@ns.sympatico.ca () kim.kinrade@ns.sympatico.ca 1440 Vacation home at White Point Beach in Nova Scotia kim.kinrade@ns.sympatico.ca No no http://www.kimkinrade.com/wpblog/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg http://www.kimkinrade.com/wpblog 144 144 http://www.kimkinrade.com/wpblog/2009/02/03/nova-scotia-groundhog-predicts-long-winter/ http://www.kimkinrade.com/wpblog/2009/02/03/nova-scotia-groundhog-predicts-long-winter/#comments Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:22:39 +0000 kim http://www.kimkinrade.com/wpblog/?p=788 Warning: arsort() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /home/sykesa/kimkinrade.com/wpblog/wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-pro.php(240) : eval()'d code(1) : eval()'d code(1) : eval()'d code on line 762

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Every February 2nd a large rodent is pulled from the warm confines of his lair at  the ton of Shubenacadie and subjected to the onslaught of bagpipe wailin and people yelling. Why? Because Shubenacadie Sam has the honmor of predicting whether the Nova Scotia winter will be short or long. And this has to do [...]]]> http://www.kimkinrade.com/wpblog/2009/02/03/nova-scotia-groundhog-predicts-long-winter/feed/ 0 http://www.kimkinrade.com/wpblog/2008/01/25/167/ http://www.kimkinrade.com/wpblog/2008/01/25/167/#comments Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:38:25 +0000 kim http://www.kimkinrade.com/wpblog/?p=167 Warning: arsort() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /home/sykesa/kimkinrade.com/wpblog/wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-pro.php(240) : eval()'d code(1) : eval()'d code(1) : eval()'d code on line 762

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“I have traveled around the world. I have seen the Canadian and American Rockies, the Andes, the Alps, and the Highlands of Scotland, but for simple beauty, Cape Breton out rivals them all.” (Alexander Graham Bell)   The Cabot Trail is named for Giovanni Caboti, an Italian navigator under the pay of England who mapped [...]]]> http://www.kimkinrade.com/wpblog/2008/01/25/167/feed/ 0 http://www.kimkinrade.com/wpblog/2008/01/18/baddeck-alexander-graham-bells-shangri-la/ http://www.kimkinrade.com/wpblog/2008/01/18/baddeck-alexander-graham-bells-shangri-la/#comments Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:41:43 +0000 kim http://www.kimkinrade.com/wpblog/?p=149 Warning: arsort() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /home/sykesa/kimkinrade.com/wpblog/wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-pro.php(240) : eval()'d code(1) : eval()'d code(1) : eval()'d code on line 762

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If you were asked what do the telephone and the hydrofoil have in common you might be intuitive enough to answer that they were great American inventions. You would be partially-right. 1) The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876 in the U.S. 2) Bell was a Scot 3) The hydrofoil was invented [...]]]> http://www.kimkinrade.com/wpblog/2008/01/18/baddeck-alexander-graham-bells-shangri-la/feed/ 7 http://www.kimkinrade.com/wpblog/2008/01/11/dartmouth-roadside-attractions/ http://www.kimkinrade.com/wpblog/2008/01/11/dartmouth-roadside-attractions/#comments Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:04:02 +0000 kim http://www.kimkinrade.com/wpblog/?p=126 Warning: arsort() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /home/sykesa/kimkinrade.com/wpblog/wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-pro.php(240) : eval()'d code(1) : eval()'d code(1) : eval()'d code on line 762

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I’m always searching for items of interest with regard to the Dartmouth area. The old locks at Sullivan’s Pond, the Cow Bay moose and Alderney Landing immediately come to mind but there are a great many more. But I’m always interested in what others from away think are the the major attractions and I found [...]]]> http://www.kimkinrade.com/wpblog/2008/01/11/dartmouth-roadside-attractions/feed/ 0 http://www.kimkinrade.com/wpblog/2007/09/25/hank-snow-country-music-centre/ http://www.kimkinrade.com/wpblog/2007/09/25/hank-snow-country-music-centre/#comments Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:51:03 +0000 kim country music starcountry starshanksnowhank snowrailway stationyodeling ranger http://www.kimkinrade.com/wpblog/?p=85 Warning: arsort() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /home/sykesa/kimkinrade.com/wpblog/wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-pro.php(240) : eval()'d code(1) : eval()'d code(1) : eval()'d code on line 762

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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 http://www.hanksnow.com Clarence Eugene “Hank” Snow was born on May [...]]]> http://www.kimkinrade.com/wpblog/2007/09/25/hank-snow-country-music-centre/feed/ 0 http://www.kimkinrade.com/wpblog/2007/09/15/the-ovens-natural-park/ http://www.kimkinrade.com/wpblog/2007/09/15/the-ovens-natural-park/#comments Sun, 16 Sep 2007 02:43:58 +0000 kim http://www.kimkinrade.com/wpblog/?p=72 Warning: arsort() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /home/sykesa/kimkinrade.com/wpblog/wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-pro.php(240) : eval()'d code(1) : eval()'d code(1) : eval()'d code on line 762

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Just an hour north of White Point Beach is the Ovens Natural Park, a privately owned 190 acre reserve of coastal forest and spectacular cliffs, located on the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia, along the scenic Lighthouse Route. For hundreds of years, people have been drawn to the incredible beauty, diverse geography, spiritual solace, and [...]]]> http://www.kimkinrade.com/wpblog/2007/09/15/the-ovens-natural-park/feed/ 0 http://www.kimkinrade.com/wpblog/2007/09/13/peggys-cove/ http://www.kimkinrade.com/wpblog/2007/09/13/peggys-cove/#comments Fri, 14 Sep 2007 01:03:13 +0000 kim http://www.kimkinrade.com/wpblog/?p=68 Warning: arsort() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /home/sykesa/kimkinrade.com/wpblog/wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-pro.php(240) : eval()'d code(1) : eval()'d code(1) : eval()'d code on line 762

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According to legend, Peggys’ Cove was named after the only survivor of a schooner that ran aground and sank in 1800…a woman named Margret. Local folk called her “Peggy” and her home came to be known as Peggy’s Cove.The original lighthouse was built in 1868. Exactly 100 years later in 1968 the Campbell family opened [...]]]> http://www.kimkinrade.com/wpblog/2007/09/13/peggys-cove/feed/ 0 http://www.kimkinrade.com/wpblog/2007/09/07/cape-forchu-lighthouse/ http://www.kimkinrade.com/wpblog/2007/09/07/cape-forchu-lighthouse/#comments Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:40:45 +0000 kim http://www.kimkinrade.com/wpblog/?p=61 Warning: arsort() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /home/sykesa/kimkinrade.com/wpblog/wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-pro.php(240) : eval()'d code(1) : eval()'d code(1) : eval()'d code on line 762

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Yarmouth is blessed with one of the most unique lighthouses in the world at Cape Forchu. Samuel de Champlain landed on this most southern tip of Nova Scotia in late May of 1604 and named the site “Cap Forchu” — Cap meaning ‘cape’ and Forchu relating to ‘fork’, meaning well separated or cloven. The Cape [...]]]> http://www.kimkinrade.com/wpblog/2007/09/07/cape-forchu-lighthouse/feed/ 0 http://www.kimkinrade.com/wpblog/2007/08/29/bay-of-fundy-tidal-bore/ http://www.kimkinrade.com/wpblog/2007/08/29/bay-of-fundy-tidal-bore/#comments Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:51:23 +0000 kim http://www.kimkinrade.com/wpblog/?p=50 Warning: arsort() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /home/sykesa/kimkinrade.com/wpblog/wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-pro.php(240) : eval()'d code(1) : eval()'d code(1) : eval()'d code on line 762

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A tidal bore is a wall of water that moves up certain low-lying rivers due to an incoming tide. Tidal bores form when an incoming tide rushes up a river, developing a steep forward slope due to resistance to the tide’s advance by the river, which is flowing in the opposite direction. Thus we have [...]]]> http://www.kimkinrade.com/wpblog/2007/08/29/bay-of-fundy-tidal-bore/feed/ 0 http://www.kimkinrade.com/wpblog/2007/08/26/the-souwester/ http://www.kimkinrade.com/wpblog/2007/08/26/the-souwester/#comments Mon, 27 Aug 2007 01:07:58 +0000 kim http://www.kimkinrade.com/wpblog/?p=28 Warning: arsort() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /home/sykesa/kimkinrade.com/wpblog/wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-pro.php(240) : eval()'d code(1) : eval()'d code(1) : eval()'d code on line 762

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Named for the rough-weather hats popularized by the Gorton’s fisherman and in Van Gogh’s paintings the Nova Scotia version of the sou’wester is as Nova Scotian as the tartan.Case in point: At a convention in Iceland in 1998 called The Icelandair Mid-Atlantic Conference there were delegations from 15 European countries, 3 from the United States [...]]]> http://www.kimkinrade.com/wpblog/2007/08/26/the-souwester/feed/ 0