On Our Way to the Maritimes
no real questions yet, we're on 5 week trip from sw Ontario to the maritimes, furthest point will be cape Breton done it before but I thought id share our places we stop and anybody can add suggest...
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Yep, 2 laners have more to see.
Do you know how to tell what houses, barns, other buildings were built by what peoples in what time period? If you don't chat with someone in some place(s) along the way.* Places settled by Francophones 1600s to 2004, places set up by Anglophones post Acadian era, but pre 1900....... You can see all of these from the two lane roads, especially if you don't rush your drive.
* Often local tourism associations have some 'historians', who are working to preserve heritage buildings.
One of the most interesting 'visits' I've done was a tour of the reconstructed Viking Village at L'Anse aux Medows, NL......what materials made the original structure, what is used to repair and retain the structure as the Vikings would have done. Our tour guide was the granddaughter of the chap who showed that site to Norse explorer, Helge Ingestad, and Anne Stine Ingstad his anthropologist spouse. (granted that's Atlantic Canada).
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Do you know how to tell what houses, barns, other buildings were built by what peoples in what time period? If you don't chat with someone in some place(s) along the way.* Places settled by Francophones 1600s to 2004, places set up by Anglophones post Acadian era, but pre 1900....... You can see all of these from the two lane roads, especially if you don't rush your drive.
* Often local tourism associations have some 'historians', who are working to preserve heritage buildings.
One of the most interesting 'visits' I've done was a tour of the reconstructed Viking Village at L'Anse aux Medows, NL......what materials made the original structure, what is used to repair and retain the structure as the Vikings would have done. Our tour guide was the granddaughter of the chap who showed that site to Norse explorer, Helge Ingestad, and Anne Stine Ingstad his anthropologist spouse. (granted that's Atlantic Canada).
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