parks.gov.ns.ca/parks/galleries/taylorhead-gallery.asp -
www.taylorhead.wordpress.com - Taylor Head Provincial Park, a natural environment park, occupies a rugged wind-swept peninsula jutting six and a half kilometres (4 miles) into the Atlantic Ocean on Nova Scotia’s picturesque Eastern Shore. The park provides spectacular views and unspoiled coastline. Discover the majesty of enduring rock versus the tumultuous power of the sea. A natural treasure.
www.heritagevillage.ca - "Memory Lane Heritage Village took me right back to my childhood. Everything was just the way I remembered it, the clothes, the buildings, the sounds and smell especially the warm gingerbread and the woodstove. I couldn't get my grandchildren to leave the kittens and lambs. We are coming back on Fishing Day!" - Evva Jones, Halifax, NS
www.willykrauch.com - Max Krauch arrives at J. Willy Krauch & Sons Ltd. at 3 a.m. most days. It's still hours before daybreak, but Max wants to get in to work early. Top-quality smoked fish takes time and care, Max says. Sure, automated machinery would speed up production, but it would take something away from the taste and quality of the product. "When you're doing it all by hand, you're paying attention to the details. I can taste the difference and I think other people can too."
www.coastaladventures.com - Coastal Adventures is Atlantic Canada’s foremost sea kayaking operation and 2011 is our 30th year of offering coastal paddling excursions. We have something for every interest and skill level, whether you are a beginner or an expert.
www.museum.gov.ns.ca/flm - A Coastal Family's Way of Life. Come for a hearty welcome to this Nova Scotia fisherman's house from the early 1900s. From the crackle of wood in the summer kitchen's cook stove to the smell of the saltwater breeze at Navy Pool by the ocean, you'll experience the typical life of a coastal village family.
www.harrisandcogallery.ca - Harris & Company Gallery. Nova Scotia is rich in the arts. They are what give us our voice, they enable us to be there for each other and they join us to the rest of the world.
www.novascotiarailwayheritage.com/musquodoboit.htm - Musquodoboit Harbour: Musquodoboit Railway Museum
Enjoy the story of Nova Scotia railways at the Musquodoboit Railway Museum on Route 7. Examine the posters, tickets, maps and photographs in the Canadian Northern Railway station of 1918. Don't miss the rare ex-CN GE 44-tonner and the unique mail crane. A DAR combine from Nova Scotia's last mixed passenger and freight train is another highlight.
www.halifax.ca/sandcastle - Clam Harbour Beach is a long, beautiful white sand beach within
the Halifax Regional Municipality. Each year the Clam Harbour Sandcastle Contest attracts hundreds of contestants and thousands of spectators.
When: Sunday, August 14, 2011 - Rain or shine!
Where: Clam Harbour Beach Provincial Park
www.sherbrookevillage.ca - Our Past is Your Adventure!
Sherbrooke Village depicts a typical Nova Scotian village from 1860 to pre-WW1. With approximately 80 buildings, over 25 of those open to the public, most with costumed interpreters, it is the largest Nova Scotia Museum site. Visit the working woodturner shop, blacksmith, pottery shop, and printery. During your visit, enjoy a delicious, light meal at the What Cheer Tea Room located within the Village. Built on an economy of ship building, lumbering and gold mining, Sherbrooke Village reflects Nova Scotia as it was during its industrial boom in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Visit a place where time has stood still... visit Sherbrooke Village!
www.museevirtuel-virtualmuseum.ca - MacPhee House Community Museum. The museum is upstairs in a 100+ year old house that has been a private home, Post Office, Grocery Store, and rooming house; relocated to its present site on an old pulp mill property from the centre of Sheet Harbour in the 1980s. The collection "Life Before Plastic" [C] exhibits domestic and institutional life on the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia from about 1850 to 1950.
