Day 36 - Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia

We’ve been blessed with a lot of sunny days so we aren’t complaining this morning, Thursday, July 5 because of a little rain.  It is a travel day so it doesn’t make too much difference except it is hard to get any good pictures.  Again, we saw a lot of farms and cropland, such as corn as well as apple orchards.  There were some fields that I didn’t know what was planted.   Also past an area noted as “ Latitude 45 degrees; halfway between the north pole and equator”.  I’m sure you are impressed with that bit of knowledge!!

Like I said, pictures didn't turn out to well with the mist in the air as well as on the windshield.  Saw a deer for the first time on this trip and Llama's that were sheared - look a little thin.  The herds of cattle were very healthy looking and grazing in a lush green field.  The farms are kept up very well.

I will make these pictures bigger so you can read them.  

The only stop we made was to the Grand Pre’ (pronounced like pray) National Historic Park.  The name Grand Pre’, which means “great meadow”, refers to the extensive diked lands in the area.  Settlers from Port-Royal moved to Grand Pre’ in the late l7th century and, copying the successful dike and floodgate system used in Port-Royal, reclaimed the rich marine sediment from the Minas Basin.  Soon Grand Pre’ became the largest and most important community in Acadia.   This site commemorates the town’s Acadian settlers who were deported to British colonies throughout North America.

I know this is cheating but we took pictures of the history of these people.  We saw a film about what these poor people went through - how they developed the land, built themselves homes and gardens and then were deported.  Could only take their personal belongings - the rest was forfeited to the British Crown.  More than 6,000 Acadians were deported from Nova Scotia.    They were a very proud people so it is nice that they have this memorial.

Outside the museum, was a beautiful garden with the above statues and tons of flowers.  The articles above tell you about the statues.

Above is a picture of a Memorial Church as well as part of the garden.  Roses are always in abundance.

The building is a Blacksmith shop - showing how they raised the oxen to put shoes on them as well as other tools they used.  Very interesting story about the oxen.  The kitten - I should say cat - lives in the church.  Has been there for 15 years and loving it. They feed her and have a pillow up on the windowsill for her.  She loves to be pet so I did my fair share of that.

We just returned from a Candlelight tour of the Garrison Graveyard, one of Canada's oldest English graveyards.  It was a beautiful night and our guide was terrific.  Told us stories about some of the people that were buried there as well as the significance of what was on the gravestones.  Very interesting.  We'll go back tomorrow to see them better in the daylight. 

Picture of the Day!

We just returned from a walk by the river on a beautiful night.  Hope the

moon is shining down on you as well.