Meandering to Quebec & The Maritime Provinces travel blog

A Bagpipe Playing Girl entertains at the Visitor Center

We're in this area now called the Fundy Shore & Annapolis Valley

Just a quick shot of the sign at the Nova Scotia Visitor...

At Ft. Beausejour; the student was sorting digs from an area called...

The student was very enthusiastic about explaining which pieces were from the...

The wooden horse was used for punishment; didn't look like a comfortable...

Some of the gravesites at the Fort

One Fort...Two Names..Ft. Beausejour & Ft. Cumberland

Some additional information and memorials

The defenses

Some of the remains of the old fort

Joe, Howard & Gail poking around the bunkers

The Ft. Beausejour Visitor Center with the bay in the background

Taking a break; it's really warm and sunny today

Joe ringing the bell; actually he's not supposed to be touching it...

Some of the exhibits at the Fort Museum

More Exhibits

I'll post a few more

Exhibit of oldtime Ice Skates

Ok, just one more exhibit

Don't believe my captions; promise this is the last exhibit from the...

Four Fathers of the Confederation wood carving by Bruce Hebert

Howard & Gail with the Hilanders Piper by Bruce Hebert

And our turn to step before the camera near the Piper

The Old Customs Office dates to 1887 and built from local sandstone

Victoria Street in historic Amherst; we had dinner here at Cinder's Steakhouse

Monument in Victoria Square; bronze statue is a tribute to the 85th...

Victorian Woman carving by Bruce Hebert

The Victorian Child is across from the woman.

A lovely mural along Victoria Street

A beaver carved into the Dominion Public Building which dates to 1935

The First Baptist Church; gorgeous and almost too massive to get a...


Our time came to bid good-bye to Prince Edward Island. We planned a late departure because, even though we’d drive through three provinces this morning, we covered only 80 miles. We decided to exit the island via the spectacular Confederation Bridge; I’m impressed every time we cross it. You pay to get off PEI and the toll on the bridge is less expensive than the ferry; it cost $56.50 for RV and tow car plus we would end up closer to the area of Nova Scotia where we wanted to begin our exploration.

We cut through a small corner of New Brunswick and turned east for Amherst, Nova Scotia where we plan to spend the next two nights at Loch Lomond Campground. After settling in and having lunch, we headed for the visitor center to pick up the touristy stuff for Nova Scotia.

Then we went back to New Brunswick to visit Fort Beausejour National Historic Site. The star-shaped fort which overlooks the Bay of Fundy, was built by the French in 1751. It fell to the British in 1755 and they renamed it Fort Cumberland. The fort was reinforced for the war of 1812 and abandoned in 1835. In the lab, a student was sorting and cleaning items from a dig in Beaubassin, one of the most populour and strategic regions in Acadia. She explained how they were finding items that would have been used by the French and English. It seemed like a really tedious job but she was very enthusiastic. We poked around the grounds meandering through the remnants of barracks, powder magazine foundations, wells, and other trenches. Then, we hit the museum which had a great collection of paintings, photographs, and other heritage exhibits representative of the 18th century.

By then, we were getting seriously hungry so we headed to historic downtown Amherst in search of a restaurant. We took a walk along Victoria Street and admired the tree sculptures carved by the artist, Bruce Hebert. The downtown is also home to some wonderful old buildings built with red sandstone and date back to the late 1800’s. We took some pictures and then headed for Cinder’s Steakhouse for supper. Food was pretty good too. We had a great day and we will do some sightseeing on the Glooscap Trail tomorrow.

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