Sydney and Halifax Nova Scotia August 12 & 13, 2023

Well, I haven’t posted for a couple of days so here goes….we had 5 stops in Canada. Today we had the last of them, a stop in Halifax. Yesterday we were in Sydney, Canada. In Sydney, we hired a cab and went to the Alexander Graham Bell Museum. As you all know, he was originally from Edinburgh, Scotland. He came to Canada after his brother died from tuberculosis. His father wanted to be in a place with better air quality. Sydney is in Nova Scotia (New Scotland). What I didn’t know was the Bell’s father had created an alphabet for the deaf and that Bell was a teacher of deaf student. He taught them to speak using this alphabet. After coming to Canada, he took a job in Boston where he was a voice teacher to the deaf. Helen Keller was one of his students. His father had created an alphabet to teach the deaf to speak and Bell became a well known teacher and private tutor. He ended up marrying one of his student, Mabel Hubbard. From all Ive read, she was very bright and was an equal partner to her. On 5e or wedding day, he gave her all but 10 of his shares to Bell Telephone. I think it was 1/2 of the company.

After inventing the telephone, for which he won the Volta Prize of $10,000; he created a laboratory and built a home in Nova Scotia. He had lots of inventions and greatly improved Edison’s phonograph. Around the turn of the century, he sold a patent for $200,000. When ready to retire, he and his wife built a mansion that had over 200 rooms in Nova Scotia.

After the museum, we went to Governours’ Pub for, you guessed it, fish and chips. We then walked across the park, Roscoe had ice cream and we were back on the boat on our way to Halifax.

Roscoe and had were in Halifax last year and did the tourist trek out to Peggy’s cove. So this year we got off the boat, strolled the boardwalk (3mile walk) had lunch and went back. We had 6 Canadian Dollars left. We stopped at the pier and bought a candy bar we spent all our money. We’re now headed for NY City. As Roscoe says, we went around the world in 80 days.

The world‘s largest fiddle, Sydney, Nova Scotia.

Telephones and more telephones. I still don’t understand how they work!

The first plane to fly in Canada. Bell perfected it.

Mabel and Alec Bell sharing our park bench.

Pictures can’t convey the scenery. It’s beautiful here.

What’s a day without showing you food. Atlantic cod, real chips and great Cole slaw!

Halifax

We started to walk up to the Citadel, got about 1/4 up and decided against it. Halifax is a lovely, modern city. It’s the capital of Nova Scotia.

For all you corvette lovers, here’s the last corvette. They were fast ships that helped win he battle to keep the ships running from North America to Europe during WWII.

Lunch. Lobster roll for Roscoe and corn chowder with lobster soup for me. The restaurant was called The Bicycle Thief.

The kids loved the wave!

We all live in a yellow submarine! The boardwalk was actually a great place. Lots of places do kids, lots of things to see and do. Lots of food. I’m sure the place jumps in a Saturday night

A nice afternoon in a Halifax. We needed a relaxing day!