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Chestnut Hall and the Ross Memorial Museum
Built in 1824, Chestnut Hall has served as a private residence, a center for regional crafts, and a museum. The red-brick house on Montague Street was constructed for Harris Hatch, an attorney and prominent Charlotte County resident. Its symmetrical windows, dark shutters, and central entrance reflect its classical design. A patterned fanlight and sidelights surround […]
Fort Beauséjour Museum
The stone building beside the ruins of Fort Beauséjour looks old enough to belong to the fort’s military past. Its steep green roof, chimneys, and substantial walls suggest permanence. Yet it was built for a different purpose: to preserve and explain the history of a place where armies had once fought. Opened in 1936, the […]
Alma
Located where the Upper Salmon River meets the Bay of Fundy, Alma is a small coastal community shaped by forests, fishing, and the sea. Originally known as Salmon River Settlement, it grew during the nineteenth century around lumbering, sawmills, and wooden shipbuilding. Its river provided a route for logs from the surrounding forests, while its […]
Life Inside Fort Beauséjour
Keeping a fort ready for battle required a great deal of ordinary work. At Fort Beauséjour, soldiers dug ditches, maintained defences, collected rubbish, and cut and carried firewood. Before a garrison could defend its position, it needed shelter, supplies, warmth, and a daily routine. The surviving walls and foundations offer a way to consider those […]
Thomas Dixson
In November 1776, help for the defenders of Fort Cumberland depended on someone getting beyond the siege. Thomas Dixson and three companions left the fort and made their way to Halifax to alert the authorities and secure reinforcements. Their journey helped change the outcome of an attempt to bring the American Revolution into Nova Scotia. […]
Kelly’s Bake Shop
Our reason for stopping in Alma was simple: the sticky buns. Years ago, I visited Kelly’s Bake Shop with my daughter, and the memory stayed with me. This year, I returned with my husband to introduce him to the bakery and its famous specialty. Returning gave me the opportunity to share a place from an […]
Tonge’s Island: An Early Capital of Acadia
A low rise surrounded by marshland may seem an unlikely place for a colonial capital. Yet in the seventeenth century, the land known as Île de la Vallière, later Tonge’s Island, became a centre of government in Acadia. Its story begins decades before the construction of nearby Fort Beauséjour. In 1676, Michel Leneuf de la […]
Hopewell Rocks
Along the shore at Hopewell Cape, towering rock formations rise above the tidal flats, their narrow bases supporting broad tops crowned with trees. Known as the Hopewell Rocks, these sea stacks are often called “flowerpots” because of their distinctive shapes and vegetation. At low tide, visitors can walk among them; at high tide, water surrounds […]
Greenock Presbyterian Church
On Montague Street in St. Andrews, Greenock Presbyterian Church preserves a connection between the town’s early religious life and its Scottish heritage. Built between 1821 and 1824 by local builder Donald D. Morrison, the wooden church combines the straightforward form of an American meetinghouse with the classical details of British Palladian architecture. Its entrance, arched […]
Water Street
Running parallel to the harbour, Water Street developed as the commercial centre of St. Andrews. Its closely spaced wooden buildings recall a town where merchants, shopkeepers and travellers depended on the movement of goods and people through Passamaquoddy Bay. Within the orderly street grid established after the Loyalists arrived in 1783, the waterfront road became […]
The Shoreline Battery
On the waterfront at St. Andrews, a cannon mounted on a wooden carriage faces the waters of Passamaquoddy Bay. Its position recalls the shoreline battery established during the War of 1812, when residents feared that armed vessels might approach the harbour. Here, the water that supported the town’s commerce also offered a route by which […]
Windsor House
At 132 Water Street in St. Andrews, Windsor House preserves the story of a Loyalist family home that later became a place of hospitality. Built in 1797 for Captain David Mowat and his wife, Mehitable Calef, the wooden house dates from the town’s early development. Its balanced façade, central entrance and side-gabled roof reflect the […]
