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Newfoundland-Pitcher Plant	New Brunswick-Purple Violet	Nova Scotia-MayFlower	PEI-Lady's Slipper

Atlantic Canada provides many sights of interest for visitors to these provinces. There is no question that you will also find the people to be amongst the friendliest and most hospitable you will find anywhere.

You will find breathtakingly beautiful coastal trails and unique seaside cultures throughout the Maritime provinces. Fishing, agriculture, and tourism are the main industries and, with seasons being what they are in Canada, life is not always easy for these East Coast residents. However, they will always make you welcome and greet you with good humour and cordiality.

The rugged scenery of the Cape Breton Highlands National Park can be seen from any one of the many hiking trails, or from the 294 kilometre long Cabot Trail, one of our most dramatic highways. Much of the park is a high boreal plateau, home to lynx, deer, bears, and more than 200 bird species.

The Fortress of Louisburg played a fascinating role in Canadian history. Built by the French, captured by the New Englanders, and destroyed by the British in 1760, its destruction signaled the end of France's hold on the colony. The Cape Breton Island fortress has been rebuilt and is now a national historic site.

Fortress of Louisburg

So much of Canada's history is in this picturesque section of our country. Canada's confederation which came into being on July 1, 1867 with the passage of the British North American Act, which recognized Canada as a Dominion, and no longer a colony of Great Britain, was signed by the Fathers of Confederation, in Charlottestown, PEI.

Five hundred years before Cabot sighted Newfoundland, Norse sailors and explorers founded a village at what is now designated 'L'Anse aux Meadows', a National Historic Site. Archaeologists have uncovered remains dating from A.D.1000, and visitors can wander through sod buildings and view artifacts and models of the settlement.

Canada's oldest lighthouse stands 75 metres above the Atlantic on Newfoundland's Cape Spear. It was built in 1836 and used until 1955. The lighthouse keeper's quarters have now been restored as part of a national historic site.

Cape Spear Lighthouse

The lighthouses of Canada's Atlantic Coast harbour many unhappy memories. From Cape Spear, to Peggy's Cove in Nova Scotia, to New Brunswick's Grand Manan Island, the seabed strewn with sunken ships provides solemn testimony of the treacherous currents so often caused by high tides in this region of the Atlantic Coastline.

Green Gables - Cavendish PEI

Prince Edward Island, Canada's smallest province, was the setting for author L.M. Montgomery's 'Anne of Green Gables', a novel published in 1908 and inspired by her own experiences as an orphan. Her novel has been translated into about 20 languages and has been read by millions of children and adults around the world. 'Green Gables' is a favourite of tourists who visit Prince Edward Island and who have either read her books, or watched the television shows through the years based on her novels .


Bay of Fundy N.B.	Cape Breton N.S.	Nova Scotia Cove

Cliffs P.E.I.	Coastline P.E.I.	Prince Edward Island

Reversing Falls N.B.	Hanging Falls NFLD.	Mountains NFLD.

Peggy's Cove N.S.	Bay of Fundy - N.B.	Labrador

The above are only a few examples of the beauty you will find as you explore Atlantic Canada.
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NewFoundland	New Brunswick	Nova Scotia	PEI

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January 9 2001