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The world is your oyster! This is a package that can be 100% customized according 9 nights to your trip length, budget and itinerary inclusions. Please contact us for the latest pricing. ATLANTIC CANADA LEARNING ADVENTURE We'll match you Educational Group Tour with your best option!

What’s Included: An outstanding educational travel opportunity for students to learn about the local • Nine nights accommodation* culture, history and remarkable environment of Canada's Maritime Provinces. • Breakfast and dinner daily Explore, sightsee and learn about Nova Scotia and , New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island on this comprehensive tour. See natural and historical • Private motor coach transportation attractions, enjoy the local food and meet the local people. Visit Hopewell Rocks in • Full-time professional tour director New Brunswick, as well as Charlottetown and the house that inspired Anne Of Green • Sightseeing and entrance fees as Gables, in Prince Edward Island. Drive across the Confederation Bridge and along the per the itinerary Cabot Trail. Discover what it was like to live in 18th century Canadian Maritimes, through seeing and walking amongst the National Historic Sites of Arcadia’s Grand Pré and the Louisbourg Fortress. Wander through Halifax and learn about the and how managed Canadian immigration.

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*quad occ. Single or double supplement upon request. Not included: any personal expenses, meals and site visits not mentioned in the itinerary, travel insurance (quote available upon request), gratuities, air or bus transportation to Moncton and from Halifax. Airfare available from most Canadian airports, please enquire. ON-4499356/4499372 | BC-34799 | QC–7002238 | 111 Peter Street, Suite 200, Toronto, ON. M5V 2H1 | Canadian owned ®Merit Travel is a registered trademark of Merit Travel Group Inc. All rights reserved. Visit Cavendish in the afternoon, where you can explore the trails and beaches and visit Green Gables to learn more about L.M. Montgomery’s fictional heroine, Anne. Later we have dinner at PEI Preserve, a popular local restaurant and specialty foods producer.

DAY 4 | CHARLOTTETOWN - CAPE BRETON (B, D) Following breakfast we return to Nova Scotia from PEI via the Confederation Bridge to visit the historic Quay in Pictou, home to a replica of The Hector, which transported early settlers from to Nova Scotia. Take a tour of the Grohmann Knife Company and learn the art of knife making from the makers of world- recognized knives. Later, depart for Cape Breton and visit the Museum and Historic Site. Situated on 10 hectares of land with a superb view of the Bras d’Or Lake in on Cape Breton Island, the site overlooks Bell’s summer home, , still privately owned by his descendants. We’ll enjoy dinner at , built in 1861, once containing the office of the first Trans-Oceanic Cable Company. Some of the first telegraph messages in North America were sent from this location. Overnight in Cape Breton (2 nights)

DAY 5 | CAPE BRETON (B, D) After breakfast, depart for the Cabot Trail. A highway and scenic roadway, the Cabot Trail is named after the explorer John Cabot who landed in Atlantic Canada in 1497. Its northern section of the Cabot Trail passes through Cape Breton Highlands National Park. Your Itinerary | Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner = (B, L, D)

DAY 1 | ARRIVE IN MONCTON (D) After arriving in Moncton, we meet local students from Birchmount School and enjoy dinner with them before a brief orientation at our hotel. Overnight in Moncton

DAY 2 | MONCTON - CHARLOTTETOWN (B, D) After breakfast, depending on the tide we will visit Hopewell Rocks where at low tide you may be able to walk among the ‘flower pot’ eroded rocks. Visit Fort Beauséjour – Fort Cumberland Historic Site, the fort depicting the 18th century conflicts between France and Britain, and the later struggle between America and Britain for North American supremacy. Afterwards, we visit Magnetic Hill, a natural phenomenon unique to the area. Later travel across Confederation Bridge for your arrival in Charlottetown. Dinner at a local restaurant. Overnight in Charlottetown (2 nights)

DAY 3 | CHARLOTTETOWN (B, D) After breakfast, depart on a guided city tour of Charlottetown, visiting the Confederation Centre for the Arts – with "Confederation Hall" - a recreation of the signing of Canada's constitution. The western and eastern sections follow the rugged coastline, with views of the ocean. The southwestern section passes through the Margaree River valley before passing along Bras d'Or Lake. We finish the day with dinner in Cape Breton.

DAY 6 | CAPE BRETON - TRURO (B, D) After breakfast, visit the Cape Breton Miner’s Museum, which pays tribute to the region’s long and rich history of coal mining. It is home to profound stories of miners and their families. The Museum is also home to the famous choir of miners – The Men of the Deeps. Tour an underground mine, browse the exhibits, and stroll through a historic village situated on the picturesque coast. Afterwards, visit the Louisbourg Fortress, a National Historic Site of Canada and a reconstruction of an 18th century French fortress. Its two sieges, especially that of 1758, were turning points in the Anglo-French struggle for what today is Canada. Later we stop in Truro for dinner. Overnight in Truro

DAY 7 | TRURO - DIGBY (B, D) After breakfast, visit Grand Pré, a rural community which is home to Grand Pré National Historic Site. Designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2012, it takes you back in time to experience the exhibits about the Fort's history and historic artifacts from the area. event which took thousands of Acadians from their homes, Visit the Port-Royal National Historic Site, which served as France’s the Deportation. capital of Acadia until its destruction by British military forces in 1613. Visit the National Historic Site of , a four-star fort built to This evening, we enjoy dinner in Digby. protect the harbour of . The 1797 officer's quarters Overnight in Digby were renovated in the 1930s and now house the museum with

DAY 8 | DIGBY - HALIFAX (B, D) After breakfast, we depart on a whale watching excursion and then a guided city tour of Halifax, which will include Pier 21, and a visit to the Titanic grave sites. Later we have dinner in Halifax followed by a movie night at a local movie theatre. Overnight in Halifax (2 nights)

DAY 9 | HALIFAX (B) After breakfast, depart Halifax for a visit to Peggy’s Cove, and Lunenburg’s Fisheries Museum. You will learn the stories of the Mi’kmaq Fishery, the Inshore Fishery, the Spin-off Industries, the Bank Fishery, the , Stormy Seas and Community Life. Visit the Maritime museum and learn about small craft boat-building, World War Convoys, the Days of Sail to the Age of Steam, the Titanic and the Halifax Explosion. Time permitting, spend the remainder of the afternoon exploring other historic properties in Halifax, before dinner.

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