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2013 Activity Guide Page 1 2013 Activity Guide to the SUNSET SIDE OF CAPE BRETON ISLAND www.invernesscounty.ca Page 2 2013 Activity Guide 2013 Activity Guide Page 1 Table of Contents COUNTY MAP............2 PORT HASTINGS..........4 HOME DECOR PORT HAWKESBURY....5 • Quilts • Framed Art GLENDALE................14 • Accent Furniture CREIGNISH.................15 863-1662 • Jim Shore Full service JUDIQUE..................16 wedding PORT HOOD...............19 • Dishes registry • Yankee Candles available CB SQUARE DANCES...22 Take 1st exit #34 into • Country Home Candles MABOU.......................26 Antigonish (exit before lights) same • Willow Tree plus much more .... LAKE AINSLIE............31 exit as Ron MacGillivrays Chev Olds WHYCOCOMAGH..33 CS COASTAL TRAIL ..36 ORANGEDALE..........41 INVERNESS...........42 BROAD COVE.............52 MARGAREES.............53 BELLE CÔTE..............56 ACADIAN SHORE.......58 CHETICAMP..........59 Great brand names available PLEASANT BAY..........69 MEAT COVE................71 • Tribal • PoinT Zero • FDJ Jeanswear • columbia • levi’s • meXX • SILVER Jeans Published by Editor: Frank Macdonald Graphic Design/Layout: Diane Mouland Advertising Manager: Inez Forbes INVERNESS COMMUNICATIONS LTD. Tel. 902-258-2253 [email protected] www.oran.ca In partnership with NOW SERVING Soft Serve Ice Cream INVERNESS COUNTY RECREATION/TOURISM PO Box 179, Port Hood, NS Central Avenue Inverness B0E 2W0 Page 2 INTERACTIVE COUNTY MAP 2013 Activity Guide 2013 Activity Guide Page 3 •• Meat Cove An Inverness County Welcome KEY Inverness County comprises the entire western coastline of Inverness County: The Sunset Side of Cape Breton Island, our • GOLF Cape Breton Island, reaching inland as far as the beautiful Bras guide for your visit among us, contains far more pages of activities • cOMMUNITY pROFILE d’Or Lakes. Between these two shorelines, cultures and arts, and inter-activities, culinary choices, places to rest, and events to • summer FEsTIvaL languages and landscapes complement each other, extending an see or participate in than can be mentioned in this meagre but well caMp Ground open invitation for visitors to experience any or all of western Cape meant welcome. • Breton’s offerings. Inverness County is a place rich in history, and a wealth of TRaILs • Those offerings are myriad, lunch with live fiddle music in museums in each community tells that town or village’s story of Judique, where you can also learn a fiddle tune or a few basic centuries of settlement, the survival of cultures and languages, the square dance steps. You can swim at the sandy life-guarded beach industrial and agricultural past and present. Pleasant Bay at Port Hood, go square dancing in West Mabou or Glencoe, Many villages offer weekly “ceilidhs” or gatherings featuring • CAPE BRETON golfing, swimming or watching harness racing in Inverness, salmon musicians, Gaelic singers, dancers and even storytellers. HIGHLANDS fishing or hiking along the Margaree River, golfing at Cabot Links For those who want to experience Inverness County first in Inverness or La Portage course in Cheticamp. Receive a warm hand through bicycling, canoeing, hiking, whale watching, square Cheticamp NATIONAL PARK invitation to join in the vibrant Acadian culture of LeMoine and dancing, or any other personal involvement, the options are many, ••• Cheticamp. Pleasant Bay has a marvellous whale museum or nearby the excitement, thrilling. • petit Etang whale watching in that village. Camping and hiking at the tiny, The highly acclaimed 92-kilometre Celtic Shores Coastal Trail • Belle Marche tenacious and wonderful village of Meat Cove is a visitors’ favourite. is one if Inverness County’s latest gems in a rich geographic and point cross • These are only a few of the choices to be made and enjoyed cultural landscape. Grand Etang • along the coast. Our hope is that each day’s end will bring you a joyful exhaustion, Going inland there is Lake Ainslie, Nova Scotia’s largest fresh a sense of a day well spent, whose lingering last moments might Acadian Shore INVERNESS ••st.Joseph duMoine • water lake, with camp sites, hiking trails and the popular Scotsville be spent watching a rare and beautiful sight from the shores of cap Le Moine • School of Crafts where traditional weaving and or heritage skills are Inverness County, that is the witnessing of one of the few ocean • Belle cote practiced daily, and for which workshops are available for visitors. sunsets to be found on the eastern side of the North American Margaree Harbour • Beyond Lake Ainslie is Whycocomagh which every summer continent. • East Margaree celebrates a multicultural festival. At any time of the season So welcome to Inverness County. May your journey among us The Margarees Whycocomagh invites you to hike Salt Mountain or camp in the not be your last, but fill you with lasting memories of a place we ••• • Margaree valley Whycocomagh Provincial Park, or to visit Waycobah, the Mi’qmak believe is special, special enough for us to spend our lives here, Margaree Forks • • Egypt Road village just across the Skye River which this year will host the Mi’qmak special enough to feel it is worth sharing with you. • North East Margaree Summer Games. Both villages border on the shores of the Bras d’Or. • south West Margaree • Broad Cove • Upper Margaree •••• Inverness Scotsville • • strathslorne Lake Ainslie Mabou Harbour • •• Mabou • Brook village •• • • Brook south Port Hood village Lake ainslie NEW • Whycocomagh • Glencoe •• Location stations • Glencoe Mills • Upper sW Mabou • Hair care Orangedale • Judique • • Make Up • Waxing creignish • • River denys • Marble Mountain • Hands & Feet Port Hastings Glendale • • • Facials • prodUcts • West Bay Road CAPE BRETON • packages Port Hawkesbury ISLAND • registered ••• come visit kosmetikos salon & spa where our relaxing atmosphere and professional staff Massage will take care of your hair, esthetic needs and massage therapy. We use only the highest tHerapist Scan QR Code. Scroll quality products and have a talented, licensed staff to get you looking your very best! down special publications click on Sunset Side PDF. 21B MacIntosh Ave., Port Hawkesbury, NS B9A 3K4 625-0470 Page 4 PORT HASTINGS 2013 Activity Guide 2013 Activity Guide PORT HAWKESBURY Page 5 Port Hastings Museum feature dolls from around the world; and cars, trains and ferries TOWN OF PORT HAWKESBURY September 14th is Let Them Be Kids The Port Hastings Museum, located directly across from the Canso Causeway Visitors Centre, is a good place to begin exploring some of the history and collections from the “Strait Area” of Cape Breton Island. Day in Port Hawkesbury Open from June 17th - October 19th; a menu of interesting displays this season. perhaps you would enjoy visiting a genuine Building Bee TRANSPORTATION the assumption of the vanishing Cape Breton Port Hawkesbury has been awarded funding will be a preschool playground. Transportation has always fiddler. That festival gave rebirth to a tradition from the national organization, Let Them been a subject of local of fiddling and dance that grows stronger with Be Kids, an all-volunteer, community-based It won’t be a conventional interest since, until the each succeeding generation. organization that acts as a catalyst for the playground, organizers explain. It construction of the Canso building of playgrounds, skate parks and will be constructions of suggestions fitness parks across Canada. chosen by the children, a structure Causeway, getting back and OPEN HOUSE ACKNOWLEDGES forth to the mainland of Nova th- th that encourages imaginative play. CAUSEWAY On August 10 13 , the Port On September 14th, Build Day, volunteers Scotia had been a challenge. Hastings Museum will host an open house from the town will begin rehabilitating a A third aspect of the playground One of this year’s displays marking the 58th anniversary of the opening DOLLS There will be a summer-long exhibit playground that has fallen into disuse. will focus on the ideas and choices includes model boats, cars of the Canso Causeway. It is a remarkable of Dolls From Around the World from the The day will begin at 8:30 a.m., and the of children 6-10 years old. and train ferries. Before story of the construction of what remains the Anna Guzdziol Collection. challenge will be to get aspects of the the causeway, coastal boats world’s deepest causeway. project completed in a day, which will The day will be interspersed with A CENTURY OF 4-H In July, the museum provided transportation as end in late afternoon. music and food. will feature an exhibit, 100 Years of 4-H displayed in Mark Boudreau’s CELTIC COLOURS AFTERNOON model boats. An extensive CEILIDHS If you are travelling across the There will be a Teen Zone to the park, Any visitors to Port Hawkesbury FIDDLING ANNIVERSARY FEATURED th photographic exhibit shows Canso Causeway in October during the Celtic where activity bases, chosen by teens, on September 14 are welcome will be built. This will include a gazebo, to come and see the activity, join how Mulgrave, Point Tupper, Colours International Music Festival, then and Port Hawkesbury had a skateboard area, a soccer pitch and a in if they wish, and perhaps see a great To get there, follow Reeves Street to enjoy the Port Hastings Museum’s afternoon graffiti wall. idea taking shape, one that is benefiting primary employment serving Reynolds Street (McDonald’s on the ceilidhs which will be held at the museum on many children across Canada through corner), turn left and you are within a the rail and automobile ferries th th the afternoons of October 11 and 18 . The For children five months to five years, there the program, Let Them Be Kids. block of the action. and servicing the coastal ceilidhs, naturally and traditionally, will be boats. offered with tea. PORT HASTINGS MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES & THE • Cars • MINIVaNs • TruCks • suV’s QUILT AND CRAFT SHOP • Cargo VaNs • Cube VaNs AT THE ENTRANCE TO CAPE BRETON ISLAND In August, an exhibit will pay tribute to the • Bus Tours Welcome • Picnic TaBles 40th anniversary of the Festival of Cape Breton r Whee • admission To museum • ice cream Parlor ll you l nee Fiddling.