Archive > August 2005

Domestic Medicine

This comes from the Nova Scotia Sanatorium in Kentville. The sanatorium was initially the place where people went when they had tuberculosis and later became a hospice for those returning soldiers who were injured during World War 1. One section of the book pictured contains “Advice to Mothers, on the subject of their own health; [...]

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The Coast to Coast Tour — Atlantic Ocean

In June Makenna dipped her feet in the Pacific Ocean at the Airforce Beach in Comox, British Columbia and on Saturday she sampled the Atlantic Ocean — at Beach Meadows Beach on the South Shore in Nova Scotia. The water here isn’t quite as warm as the Pacific, but it is shallow and you can [...]

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Gaspereau Valley Fibres

I want to take up knitting now that I have been to the Gaspereau Valley Fibres farm and shop. I’m not a knitter but I found the shop absolutely divine and I am now crazy for wool. I’m sure for someone who knits the experience would have been purely orgasmic! The shop is located on [...]

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Margaretsville

In all my years of living in the Annapolis Valley and driving around on the back roads looking for interesting places I never once discovered Margaretsville. I feel like I’ve missed out on a wonderful part of Nova Scotia and am giddy now that I have found it. The one thing I remember about Margaretsville [...]

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