Truro, Canada Travel Blogs

National Historic Site Extravaganza
Jun 9, 2008 (17 photos)

... well done, as a rule. Stop #1:  Port Royal (Granville Ferry); This was the first reconstruction undertaken by Parks Canada.  Port Royal was a French Settlement built in 1605, but destroyed in 1613 by raiding New England British.  Parks ...

The Mad Hatter's Wild Ride
Jul 31, 2007 (4 photos)

... the Canadian National Railway, running between Halifax and Montreal, and the Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway, running between Truro and Sydney. Tulips & Thistle is a beautiful B&B on the outskirts of town in a quiet neighborhood set ...

It's a 'bore'!
Sep 15, 2009

... on the streets - wondering if the Acadia University which is housed in Wolfville might have accounted for this demographic. Destination - Truro….it’s time to start making plans to leave Nova Scotia and head to Prince Edward Island. But we&# ...

Day 9: A Visit to the Blue Nose II
Aug 11, 2009 (1 photos)

... docked there.  We arrived at the Palliser Hotel about dinner time.  Nova Scotia is about 500 miles long and Truro is approximately half-way between Yarmouth and Sidney.  The Palliser overlooks a Nova Scotia phenomenon, the Tidal Bore which ...

A drive to Truro on old Hwy #2
Apr 26, 2009 (1 photos)

... van (part of the signage for DSG) and asked if we were here for the home improvement show that was just finishing up in Truro. Nope, didn't know about but sure wish I had. Anyway, I forgot to mention that I called Peter Myers, the home renovator that I ...

HOME!
Nov 5, 2007

Finally home!

Last day in NS
Aug 21, 2009 (8 photos)

After leaving Bear River, the unusual little village with it's construction of homes and commercial buildings on stilts; allowing it's tides to ebb and flow beneath them; we depart the south shore of N.S. and head for Digby on the Bay of Fundy.  A ...

The adventures of a Barker WWOOFing
Apr 26, 2009

I'm having a lovely time here in Canada! The canadians are certainly living up to their warm and generous reputation everyone we've met has gone out of their way to take care of us and take us around interesting places. Saturday we went to Halifax with ...

World's Highest Tides
Jun 27, 2006 (6 photos)

... a lighthouse, it was an inevitable tourist trap, although a charming one at that. We stopped for the day in Truro, northwest of Halifax (which we bypassed completely). It was a little anticlimatic after Lunenberg but we did find some interesting things. ...

To the Cottage via Truro and Bedford
May 2, 2009 (4 photos)

... PEI, for example). We drove just off Hwy 102 to the first spot. Okay, so we know where #1 is. We then headed out of Truro, west to South Maitland and the Shubenacadie River. Well, the river was flowing out towards the Bay of Fundy, wasn't it. Boy, this ...

Heading back
Jul 3, 2008

... and when I crossed into Nova Scotia I stopped at the Welcome Center where all the flags were up since it was Canada Day, Canada's July 4th.. A pretty young lady was playing the bag pipes and I had some cake and coffee.. They suggested I travel to ...