Back on the Continent

It is Friday and we are back on the North American Continent.  Yes we are off the Islands.  Got to mainland Nova Scotia via the Canso Causeway early this morning.  Drove south then on Hwy 7 along the coast.  Stopped in Heritage Village in Lake Charlotte.  A little settlement of reconstructed buildings that had been moved there that were from the 1930's, 40's and 50's.  There was a school, church, house, barn, tool shed, ice house, boat house, and so on.  They were the actual real thing, just picked up and moved old farmer Brown's barn with all his stuff — he had one BA horse. Check out that horseshoe. He had some regular sized horses too, but that was one BA horse.

Wish I had taken some photos of the fish boat house.  There was an old man there who was the guy who donated the tools and fishing equipment.  He had fished for 41 years — and had been out of fishing for a long time too. Very interested in telling us his story and he was interesting.

They did not have any Elvis, or Connie Francis or even Kingston Trio music playing so the Heritage Village was missing something as far as I was concerned.

We are now in Lunenburg, an old fishing town.  This boat is a replica of the Bluenose which is on the back of the Canadian dime. The real McCoy was lost at sea in 47 off the coast of Haiti. At one time it was the fastest sailing ship in the world and the pride of Canada.

Lunenburg was established by the British with German settlers they brought to help resettle former French land and to help keep the French out. The Germans were seeking religious freedom as they were protestant and they established a host of churches that became what are now the oldest protestant congregations and churches in Canada.

the Germans were supposed to be farmers and tradesmen but they became fishermen (the soil was too poor) —

One of the churches they founded.  Not one of the original buildings.

The place has some boats- and is picturesque.

and for some reason there is a piece of the Berlin Wall here. Norwegians who escaped from Norway trained here during WWII after the German occupation of Norway and there is a monument to "Camp Norway" sorta near this location but that does not explain this piece of the wall.