Nova Scotia Small province with a big heartWelcome to our Nova Scotia page. To get the full sense of Nova Scotia you have to do a tour, and the logical place to start is the capital, Halifax, which sits beside a splendid harbour on the south coast. With its excellent restaurants, lively nightlife and handful of historic attractions, the city can easily fill a couple of days. To continue the tour, it's best to take in the beguiling fishing villages of the southwest shore, amongst which handsome Lunenburg and solitary Lockeport stand out. Between them is Liverpool, where you turn inland for both the remote forests and lakes of Kejimkujik National Park and, beyond, on an arm of the Bay of Fundy, the delightful little town of Annapolis Royal. Heading east from here along the Annapolis Valley, it's a further 110km to the pleasant college town of Wolfville and another 90km back to Halifax. Another outstanding circular tourist route is the Cabot Trail. Named after the explorer John Cabot, who is supposed to have landed here in 1497, it encircles the northern promontory of Cape Breton Island, where the mountainous landscapes of Cape Breton Highlands National Park constitute some of eastern Canada's most stunning scenery. Cape Breton Island - and the strip of Nova Scotia coast bordering the Northumberland Strait - attracted thousands of Scottish highlanders at the end of the eighteenth century, mostly tenant farmers who had been evicted by Scotland's landowners when they found sheep-raising more profitable than renting farmland. Many of the region's settlements celebrate their Scots ancestry and Gaelic traditions in one way or another - museums, Highland Games and bagpipe-playing competitions - and in South Gut St Ann's , on the Cabot Trail, there's even a Gaelic college. The final attraction of Cape Breton is the reconstructed eighteenth-century French fortress of Louisbourg, stuck in splendid isolation on the southeast coast.
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