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Fort Beauséjour
On our travels through the Maritime provinces, we stopped at Fort Beauséjour National Historic Site near Aulac, New Brunswick. Today the landscape is remarkably quiet with broad grassy earthworks overlooking the surrounding countryside with a small stone museum building nearby. Yet this peaceful ridge was once at the center of the struggle between France and […]
Blockhouse National Historic Site
One of the things I have come to appreciate through our travels is that every country chooses certain places to preserve because they tell an important part of its story. In the United States, I rarely pass up an opportunity to visit a National Park or National Historic Site. As Marty and I traveled through […]
Fundy National Park
Our drive through the Bay of Fundy was spectacular. Having visited more than 400 units of the U.S. National Park System, I always look forward to exploring the national parks of other countries. Every nation preserves places that tell its own story, and Canada’s national parks have become some of my favorite destinations. They not […]
Roosevelt Campobello International Park
I have visited Roosevelt Campobello International Park several times during my travels through the Maritime Provinces. I enjoy exploring presidential homes and historic sites, and this one is especially meaningful because it reveals a side of Franklin Delano Roosevelt that few presidential sites can capture. Rather than focusing on the years of power and leadership, Campobello tells the story of Roosevelt […]
