this statement will become more and more apparent as the country 
     
     becomes better known by summer-suffering millions to the south. 
     
    

    
     This is the province where fine deep-sea fishing may be had 
     
     at so many places along the coast, and where the giant leaping-tuna, 
     
     and huge, darting swordfish may be caught~royal sport, indeed! 
     
    

    
     De Monts and Champlain enter into the history of the pro- 
     
     vince, as do the La Tours, father and son. Annapolis Royal, the 
     
     old Port Royal of French days, has been the scene of many a conflict 
     
     in which French, English and New England Colonials took part. 
     
     The Acadian French were quite numerous here previous to the time 
     
     of their expulsion. It is a mistake, however, to presume that the 
     
     whole Acadian interest centres in one part of the Bay of Fundy side 
     
     of the province. Such is not the case; for Acadian families and 
     
     villages may be found in many parts of the Maritime Provinces. 
     
    

    
     The City of Halifax—the Cronstadt of America— has become 
     
     the Mecca for annual thousands of visitors from all parts of the 
     
     world. With its quaint and old—time appearance, its military and 
     
     naval interests, its magnificent situation, its VVorld-Harbor, its 
     
     picturesque environs, lakes, forests and grand water privileges for 
     
     yachting and boating, Halifax is unique as a centre of attraction. 
     
     Moreover, it is the most convenient place from which to start for 
     
     excursions down the romantic south-shore, as well as for the Anna— 
     
     polis Valley, and for all the great fishing rivers and hunting districts 
     
     that lie east between the Atlantic and the line of the Intercolonial 
     
     Railway, and extend as far as Guysboro and the Strait of Canso. 
     
    

    
     Nor must the beautiful country around Truro, and east and 
     
     west of it, be forgotten; nor that along the northern water front of 
     
     the province from Tidnish to Tracadie, with all the restful shore 
     
     places included in that water-bow. 
     
    

    
     Nova Scotia is indeed a summer country, par excellence. It 
     
     has splendid woodland and a fine system of rivers and lakes. (io 
     
     where you will in any part of it and you are never more than thirty 
     
     miles from the shore. Sea life is, therefore, a 
     
     prominent feature, and with all the forms of re- 
     
     creation and amusement so bountifully provided, 
     
     summer days passed in the Atlantic province go all 
     
     too quickly by. 
     
    
   
   
    
     “There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, 
     
     There is a rapture on the lonely shore, 
     
     There is society where none intrudes, 
     
     By the deep sea, and music in its roar.” 
     
    
   
   
    
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