Ditto on [url]http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/lhn-nhs/ns/louisbourg/index.aspx
I won't say it's like any other historic reconstruction 'cause I think that's presumptuous, and snobbish. But I liked it.
I also would say you will see more, lots more, if you drive carefully and Sunday afternoon style on the two lane roads. There are all kinds of visible evidence of over 400 years of European settlement all over Nova Scotia.
Sure there are 4-laners with 110 km speed limits, but heavens to betsy, what can you enjoy at those speeds. Likewise for route 9. Boring by comparison with the shore way - US 1.
X2, X3, .......X1000 on Fundy tides from both NS and NB sides of the Bay. It's a one off for the planet, that bay is.
Re. ferry, sure there is a signed draft agreement with the government in office today, but today is election day and others are predicted to win said election. It ain't there until it's there.
:C