The Maritime Provinces

With their extensive coast line these provinces provide the best of opportunities for bathing and deep-sea fishing, charming niches with sandy shores and shallow waters, which slowly deepen, being of common occurrence and frequently little exploited—thereby enhancing the pleasures of those who delight in such a spot, tranquil and unhurried amidst the quaint- ness of the rock-side cottages of the fishermen.

The pleasures, too, of sea-yachting are at hand in such waters as those of Halifax, Chester, Sydney, and that remarkable inland sea with its seven hundred miles of coast line, the Bras d’Or lakes, than which there is perhaps no more perfect sailing place in America.

The Maritimes are decidedly distinctive from most parts of Canada. The climate in summer and autumn is not unlike that of the British Isles, to which resemblance too is seen in certain topographical features, country stretches and sea-coves here and there being strikingly reminiscent of some delightful corner of the Mother Country. Particularly is this notice- able in many a winding road, which reveals at each turn, as it were, a transplanted part of rural England; in the rolling country near to those tidal lands of Fundy bay that are flecked with vivid green of marsh; in many a river and stream where lurks in shade the wileful salmon ‘or trout; and in the sequestered fishing villages along the Atlantic shores.

The similarity is accentuated when one hears the burr of the Gaelic tongue, no uncommon experience, particularly in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island where place-names often are echoes from across the Tweed. The touch of history is a further link in the chain of Old World memories and gives to the Maritimes, where mighty forces fought one hundred and fifty years for mastery in North America, an

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