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Explore the Bay of Fundy and Oldest Settlement Road Historic and Scenic Circle Tour Explore the Bay of Fundy and Oldest Settlement Road (Parks Canada/C. Reardon) Delaps Cove Wilderness Trail, the Bay of Fundy, Port-Royal NHS and North Hills Museum are “must see” Annapolis Royal Area attractions. Annapolis Royal to to life with period demonstrations two trails offer a wilderness escape Coastal Access Park. It includes a and descriptions of life in a 1605 fur with panoramic vistas and access to Bay of Fundy viewing area less than Granville Ferry trading post. The first cereal crops the Bay of Fundy. See page 17. 10 minutes from the parking lot. About a quarter mile past the in the country were sown at the Enjoy a picnic, hike along the shore, Tidal Power Plant, turn left for Port Habitation, the first European drama Delaps Cove to explore tidal pools, and be on the Royal, Canada’s Oldest Settlement was written and staged in 1606, and lookout for seals and fishing boats. Road and a Fundy Coast adventure. the Order of Good Cheer, the first Hampton On Fridays you can often join a In Granville Ferry you'll discover European social club held in North Follow the rugged coastline of local musical jam session at Young’s many picturesque homes, several of America, was started to help pass the world-famous Bay of Fundy on Cove’s Community Hall at 7 pm. which are now B&Bs and artists’ away the long winter nights. Discover the Shore Road, stretching 20 miles studios. Parking areas offer scenic Canada’s roots, and learn about from Delaps Cove to Hampton. Hampton to Bridgetown vistas of Annapolis Royal across the French colonial life. www.pc.gc.ca Winding along the tide-carved to Annapolis Royal river. Half mile past Granville Ferry Fundy Coast, discover lighthouses, you’ll find North Hills Museum. Drive through Phinney Cove to Port-Royal to cobble beaches, and fishing picturesque Hampton. In Hampton, Victoria Beach wharves. Enjoy artists’ studios, salt turn left off of the Shore Road, North Hills Museum water marine life, photography, Continue on to Victoria Beach, following the signs to Hampton Operated by the Nova Scotia birdwatching, hiking and kayaking. Beach. Before you reach the beach Museum and Annapolis Heritage past a scenic lighthouse and an 18th After passing Litchfield, you’ll century Anglican Church. At low and wharf, a great spot for mackerel Society, North Hills is one of the find Shore Road Seafood in Hillsburn fishing and spectacular sunsets, oldest houses in the province. tide walk the clam flats at Thorne’s before arriving in Parkers Cove. Cove, explore old graveyards and you’ll see the Hampton Lighthouse (c.1764). The small, square, salt-box This is the largest wharf in the area A FAMILY of 28 MUSEUMS enjoy a gorgeous view of the Digby (circa 1911) on your right. Climb house is full of Georgian treasures, and an active lobster fishing district. the tower for a bird’s-eye view of mostly from England. It showcases Gut and Bay of Fundy. You can also Fishermen schedule work around fish off the wharf at Victoria Beach, the bait sheds at the edge of the 1700s and 1800s art, 1714 to 1830 the 30-foot tides as the harbour is protected harbour and the long porcelain, 1700s glassware, plus the terminus for the Pony Express dry a portion of each day. At low from Halifax in the mid 1800s. gravel beach near the wharf. There elegantly crafted oak, walnut and tide, you can walk on the bottom of are two tidal, cobble beaches here mahogany furniture. An Acadian the Bay of Fundy floor and investigate for swimming and beachcombing. aboiteau from the nearby Melanson Port-Royal to inter-tidal marine life. If your visit is Re-cross the North Mountain to Settlement NHS is also on display. Fundy Shore not at low tide, you may see the Valleyview Provincial Park for great fishing fleet unloading their catch, views, picnic tables and washrooms. On your way back toward or do a little fishing of your own. Port-Royal Granville Ferry, turn left onto Continue on to Bridgetown for a visit National Historic Site Hollow Mountain Road. Travel to Dawn Oman’s Art Gallery. Return Continue to Pension Pies and through five miles of woodland over Young’s Cove and to Annapolis on Hwy. 1 for Kayak Melanson Settlement National the North Mountain to reach the Coastal Access Park Annapolis Royal and Action Jax or the Historic Site, one of Canada’s best scenic Bay of Fundy. Turn left to #201 for Tom’s Pizzeria and Tupperville preserved pre-deportation Acadian visit Delaps Cove for camping and Continue east to Young’s Cove School Museum, used 1869-1970. archaeological sites, then on to hiking adventures. Port-Royal NHS. The Habitation is a reconstruction of one of the Delaps Cove first European settlements in North America, founded in 1605 by Sieur Wilderness Trail de Mons and Samuel de Champlain. In addition to a scenic wharf Costumed interpreters bring history and fishing fleet in Delaps Cove, NEW CHARLIE’SCHARLIE’S PLACEPLACE RESTAURANT LICENSED DINING ROOM Chinese Food, Seafood, Canadian Food, Take-out available 11am - 8:00pm Tues, Wed, Thurs Air Conditioned 11am - 8:30pm Fri, Sat, Sun 150 metres West of Traffic Light 1-888-830-4466 WWW.ABCC.CA ABELL.ABCC.CA 38 PRINCE ALBERT RD ANNAPOLIS ROYAL 902-532-2111 761 Broadway Avenue, Cornwallis Park, NS, B0S 1H0.
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