Halifax, Nova Scotia, Charlottetown, PEI & New Brunswick

After a few delayed flights, I finally arrived in Halifax and met my Aunt, but Air Canada managed to loose my bag… I got it back the next morning, but I was quite worried.

We spent a day in Halifax and went to the Farmers Market at the brewery, which was so quaint, lots of stalls selling fruit, vegetables, baking and crafts. We then took a tour of the Halifax Citadel, which is a historical fort on the hill in the middle of Halifax overlooking the harbour and we saw the changing of the guard and the 78th Highlanders marching in their Nova Scotian tartan kilts.

We had a car so we could drive round Nova Scotia, so we headed off on our road trip. We stopped at Peggy’s Cove, which is a very picturesque little fishing community with a lighthouse, it only has a population of 40 people, they are way outnumbered by tourists! We carried on our drive along the coastal road through lots of very small villages to one called Lunenburg, were we stopped for the night.

Lunenburg harbour was full of tall sailboats and fishing boats and all the houses in the harbour are painted in bright colours.
We visited a place called Halls Harbour, when the tide is out at Halls Harbour the boats are completely grounded till the tide comes in again, we arrived when the tide was out and while we had lobster for lunch, we watched the tide come back in and the boats all started to float again, it was quite cool.

We drove along the Fundy coast where all the earth and cliffs are red in colour and the scenery is very pretty. We ended up staying over night in New Brunswick, before heading to Prince Edward Island the next day. We spent a day on PEI, it’s so pretty and all the gardens are so well kept. We explored Charlottetown the capital and visited the oldest lighthouse on PEI before heading to the ferry back to Nova Scotia.

The next day we headed for Cape Breton Highlands National Park and the Cabot Trail, again we passed through towns and villages and a few Acadian communities, the views on the Cabot Trail were pretty amazing and well worth the drive!

On our way back to Halifax we stopped at Sherbrooke Village, which is a working reconstruction of a typical Nova Scotian village in the 19th century. It was very interesting and all the people who worked there were dressed in clothes from the era.

On our last day in Halifax we visited Pier 21, which is Canada’s last surviving ocean immigration shed and from 1928 to 1971 one million people entered Canada through it!