This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Learn more

Historic Walking Area Attractions In Nova Scotia

x
Nova Scotia is one of Canada's three Maritime Provinces, and one of the four provinces that form Atlantic Canada. Its provincial capital is Halifax. Nova Scotia is the second-smallest of Canada's ten provinces, with an area of 55,284 square kilometres , including Cape Breton and another 3,800 coastal islands. As of 2016, the population was 923,598. Nova Scotia is Canada's second-most-densely populated province, after Prince Edward Island, with 17.4 inhabitants per square kilometre .
Continue reading...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Filter Attractions:

Historic Walking Area Attractions In Nova Scotia

  • 1. Historic Properties Halifax
    The Historic Properties are warehouses on the Halifax Boardwalk in Halifax, Nova Scotia that began to be constructed during the Napoleonic Wars by Nova Scotian businessmen such as Enos Collins, a privateer, smuggler and shipper whose vessels defied Napoleon's blockade to bring American supplies to the British commander Duke of Wellington. These properties helped make Halifax prosperous in Canada's early days by aiding trade and commerce, but they were also frequently used as vehicles for smuggling and privateering. During the War of 1812, two of the most successful Nova Scotian privateer ships during this time period were the Liverpool Packet and the Sir John Sherbrooke. Folk singer Stan Rogers made the Privateers Wharf famous in his songs Barrett's Privateers and Bluenose. The Pontac Hous...
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
  • 2. Lunenburg Historic District Lunenburg
    Lunenburg is a port town in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, Canada. Situated on the province's South Shore, Lunenburg is located on the Fairhaven Peninsula at the western side of Mahone Bay. The town is approximately 90 kilometres southwest of the county boundary with the Halifax Regional Municipality. The town was established by the four founding fathers, Patrick Sutherland, Dettlieb Christopher Jessen, John Creighton and Jean-Baptiste Moreau during Father Le Loutre's War, four years after Halifax was established. The town was one of the first British attempts to settle Protestants in Nova Scotia intended to displace Mi'kmaq and Acadian Catholics. British settlement posed a lasting, grave and certain threat to Mi'kmaq's control over their traditional territorial borders of Mi'kma'ki within...
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
  • 3. Canso Islands National Historic Site Canso
    For the headland, see Cape Canso. Canso is a community in Guysborough County, on the north-eastern tip of mainland Nova Scotia, Canada, next to Chedabucto Bay. In January 2012, it ceased to be a separate town and as of July 2012 was amalgamated into the Municipality of the District of Guysborough.The area was established in 1604, along with Port Royal, Nova Scotia. The British construction of a fort in the village , was instrumental in contributing to Dummer's War . The town is of national historic importance because it was one of only two British settlements in Nova Scotia prior to the establishment of Halifax . Canso played a key role in the defeat of Louisbourg. Today, the town attracts people internationally for the annual Stan Rogers Folk Festival.
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Nova Scotia Videos

Shares

x

Places in Nova Scotia

x

Regions in Nova Scotia

x

Near By Places

Menu