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Let’s Meet Some of the Hard-Working Nova Scotians Who Pull Together to Deliver the Tree for Boston!
Note: This Post was first published in November 2015. Click here for details about the 2017 Event! The Nova Scotia Tree for Boston is on the move from Pictou, Nova Scotia, to our friends in Boston, Massachusetts. Today I was lucky enough to meet some of the hard-working Nova Scotians who are
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Meatballs, Möbelfakta and a Moose! Childhood Memories of the 1980’s Burnside IKEA
It was the early 1980’s. I was about 6 years old. Our family lived in Dartmouth’s Colby Village – and a visit to IKEA in Burnside was the most incredible weekend treat. I have distinct memories of this crazy setup in the front entrance, as soon as you walked in
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18th Century Camping at the Fortress Louisbourg: An Incredible, Historical Cape Breton Experience from Parks Canada
Would your family enjoy spending the night alone in an 18th Century fortress…with only a single sheet of canvas between you and the elements? How about the freedom to explore the restored town, beach and trails throughout the night, and then again the next morning, before any visitors or staff arrive? With
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Scrabble with the Girls: Time Well Spent at the Board Room Game Cafe in Halifax
This drizzly Saturday afternoon was the perfect opportunity to try our luck at the Board Room Game Cafe – a place my 8-year daughter and I have been meaning to visit for ages. And who better to bring with us than our resident Scrabble expert: my dear Mum, a.k.a Granny! When they opened
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Inflatable Luxury: All-Inclusive Resort Camping at La Salicorne in the Magdalen Islands
As part of a 5-day family road trip in Québec’s Îles de la Madeleine (The Magdalen Islands), we decided to spend two nights at the all inclusive holiday resort, La Salicorne. When we discovered that there was a choice of accommodation, and that one of the options was a large,
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Replica Maud Lewis House in Digby, Nova Scotia
Did you know that there is a true-to-scale replica of Maud Lewis’ house, just outside Digby, Nova Scotia? We didn’t until we happened upon it during a trip to Digby this summer. My daughter was delighted to find it; they have been studying Maud Lewis at school. We were so
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Gotcha! Halifax Parents Protest the Development of Traffic Tunnels Under Citadel Hill, COSTCO on McNab’s Island
Local Parent Groups are outraged at a plan to excavate Citadel Hill in order to create traffic tunnels, an arts and recreation centre and a multi-storey car park in the downtown Halifax core. Staff at the engineering department in the City of Halifax have leaked a document confirmed they are
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Breakfast at Elements on Hollis, Fun at Halifax’s Peace and Friendship Park: A Perfect Sunday Morning with Kids in Halifax
** Note: we have updated the title and some details of this article to reflect the new name of the Peace and Friendship Park *** Good service is when the head chef comes out to ask you if you enjoyed the buffet and then assists you with your coat
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Review: Here Be Dragons at the Museum of Natural History
Did you know that the word dinosaur means “terrible lizard”? And how about this fact: the term dinosaur wasn’t even used in science until 1841. Until then, the bones and fossils of large, unknown creatures were, in fact, thought to be the remains of dragons! And for the aviation buffs: were
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We Lost The Elf on the Shelf: How a “Christmas Fail” Helped me AppreciateThe Difference Between Trend and Tradition
We lost the Elf on the Shelf. He travelled with us to England last year, where (to the bemusement of mildly scornful British relatives), we succeeded in putting on a great show of proving that the Elf on the Shelf watches children everywhere they go. But he didn’t make it back to Halifax. We discovered
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