The province upholds excellence in education, which, coupled with our relaxed lifestyle, make it a popular destination for international students. In Nova Scotia, the sea is never far away. The proximity of the coast has shaped the character and lives of Nova Scotians as much as it has the splendid maritime landscape.
Immerse yourself in a culture that ranges from traditional to avant-garde. There is year-round surfing, sea kayaking, wineries, and markets all within easy driving distance, making Nova Scotia the perfect place for exploring. Nova Scotia is also an ideal North American location for a variety of cutting-edge industries powering global innovation.
Learn more about Nova Scotia. Afterward I walked down to the river to take advantage of beautiful, early evening light and found a dozen couples practising their dance moves in the parking lot of a building, with French-sounding music coming from a boom box. Someone about 35 years ago decided that, with so many bottles of water or wine piling up, they would put them to good use and build a house.
With its rolling fields and red cliffs beaten by endless ocean waves, PEI presents a bucolic, low-key beauty. The Cabot Trail winds its way along sheer cliffs and offers up fantabulous views of the Gulf of St.
For me, the music might be an even stronger force pulling me east from my home in Toronto. George Street in St. Halifax is the only big city I know in Canada where drivers slow down to let you jaywalk across a crowded road. I was playing golf with an important fellow in the government of St.
Along the Atlantic Ocean coastline, multi-decadal variability in weather systems and their effects, particularly in winter, are associated with the North Atlantic Oscillation NAO; Marshall et al. The Gulf of St. Lawrence coast of New Brunswick forms a plain that slopes gently eastward, with long shallow embayments and salt marshes.
Rolling to rugged uplands, with much terrain more than m above sea level, characterizes western New Brunswick, the margins of the Bay of Fundy and most of Nova Scotia. Coastlines are deeply indented, dominated by cliffs and gravel beaches, and characterized by steep offshore bathymetry.
The Nova Scotia coast of the Bay of Fundy has steep cliffs flanking the shoreline. Inland is a steep escarpment to m high.
The topography of the low-lying plain of the Annapolis Valley, and the rolling hills of the Nova Scotia Uplands, trend northeast. Cape Breton Island has irregular hills, steep escarpments and flat-topped to rolling plateaus, dissected by short steep streams with numerous cataracts and waterfalls.
Prince Edward Island is an undulating plain of low relief with well-developed sand dune and beach systems. The Atlantic Maritime ecozone is the warmest in Atlantic Canada, with southern to mid-boreal climates.
Mean summer temperatures vary regionally between 13 and Mean annual precipitation ranges between and mm. The New Brunswick climate varies with distance from the Gulf of St. Lawrence Lowland regions influence the region. Interior areas have a more continental climate, whereas regions along the Bay of Fundy have cool summers and mild winters. Fog is common in exposed coastal areas. Nova Scotia is constantly influenced by the ocean, but coastal regions of the province still have cooler springs and summers and milder winters than interior sites.
Ice cover on the Gulf of St. Lawrence during winter brings cooler temperatures and a later spring. Prince Edward Island receives the strongest maritime influence of the three provinces, and has mild winters, late cool springs and moderate windy summers. Mixed-wood forests are the primary vegetation in this ecozone. Red spruce, balsam fir, yellow birch and sugar maple are the main species, with significant numbers of red and white pine, and eastern hemlock.
Acadian Forest assemblages were the pre —European settlement vegetation in most of Prince Edward Island, southeastern New Brunswick and sheltered areas of mainland Nova Scotia. Boreal species, such as white birch and black and white spruce, are also present. Shrubs in the ecozone consist of willow, pin cherry, speckled alder and blueberry.
In terms of a natural resource —based economy, forest industries represent a major economic component of this ecozone, together with fisheries mostly lobster, finfish and aquaculture and local mining. The island of Newfoundland, the southeastern corner of Labrador, and the shoreline of Lake Melville are part of the Boreal Shield ecozone Figure 3c , d. The island of Newfoundland features diverse topography.
The Avalon Peninsula has rolling uplands interspersed with small plateau regions, embayments, short rivers with steep-gradients and cliffs up to 65 m high. The central part of the island includes ridges interspersed with undulating terrain and small plateaus. Relief is generally less than m. The coastline is ragged, marked by deep indentations, cliffed headlands and numerous islands and skerries. Locally, cliffs rise in excess of m. Beaches are restricted to sheltered coves and are dominated by cobbles and pebbles.
You could stop to follow walking trails in Cape Breton Highlands National Park, with seafood restaurants providing sustenance. New Brunswick was one of the first areas of Canada to be settled by Europeans, namely the French, in the early 17th century. But, along its southern coast a more British-Canadian culture takes over, with seaside towns like Saint Andrews by-the-Sea offering a quintessential Atlantic Canada stay.
The stretch of water between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick provides a summer feeding ground and nursery for humpback, minke and finback whales. You can head out on a boat trip to see them from either side of the bay. From the deck, you observe them up close feeding on plankton, spraying plumes of water and smashing their tails onto the water. The plankton attracts large schools of herring and mackerel, which in turn brings dolphins, seabirds and seals to the bay. Drive east and you reach the town of Alma.
Basing yourself here for a few days gives you easy access to Fundy National Park where you can cycle or hike through forested hills to hidden waterfalls, and along the wave-lashed sea cliffs.
Every day, billion tonnes of seawater flows in and out of the Bay of Fundy at high tide. The more scientific reasoning places it as the result of the funnelling effect of the narrow bay combined with exceptional tidal resonance.
I find the best way to experience this phenomenon is to visit Hopewell Rocks. The seafood here is second to none — the island supplies much of North America with its fresh mussels and oysters. In , provincial leaders gathered here in Province House for the Charlottetown Conference, laying the foundations for a unified nation. Your local guide can tell you the background to each sight, and answer your questions about Charlottetown and the wider island.
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