Tag: New Brunswick
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We stopped in the liquor store in Edmundson, NB to pick up a bottle of Bourbon. We were hoping to find Yellowstone Bourbon, which we first discovered while shopping on Prince Edward Island last year, but The Wiseman or even Knob Creek would do. Coastal Nova Scotia weather was looking to be cool, with highs…
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Our Shortened Tour of PEI
As Sue mentioned in Oh, Canada, we had to leave a Pleasure Way RV Owners Rally because Joe contracted COVID. However, in the 10 days before illness forced us back to the US to quarantine, we visited a number of interesting and beautiful areas in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island that are worth mentioning.…
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The Original 1845 Capitol of Albert County, New Brunswick
Just up the road from our campground in Lower Cape, New Brunswick, is the unique and special Albert County Museum & R.B. Bennett Commemorative Center featuring historical exhibits about the land, sea and people of Albert County scattered across eight original buildings on the original site of the 1845 Capital of Albert County, New Brunswick.…
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Hopewell Rocks
As mentioned in our previous blog, the extreme tides of the Bay of Fundy produces several fascinating and unusual features along the coastline. Just up the coast from the Fundy Parkway, Hopewell Rocks provincial park provides an opportunity to see the effects of thousands of years of erosion at both high and low tides. This…
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Fundy Trail Parkway
The Parkway was conceived in the early 1990’s by businessman Mitchell Franklin. He lobbied for the construction of an accessible trail system along the Bay of Fundy. His daughter recalls how her father took New Brunswick Premier Frank McKenna for a sightseeing tour of the area in 1994, “I knew he was important because the…
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Crossing the Border
We experienced some trepidation concerning crossing the border into New Brunswick. Unlike crossing the border during air travel, we had far more stuff with us, especially food, which is always a concern. Our border experience started off on a bad note. The customs guard asked for our license plate number. Apparently our bike rack obscures…