Spent all day Tuesday enjoying the Hector Festival at Pictou, NS. The Hector was the name of the ship that brought the first Scottish people to NS. It took over five years to build the full scale replica of the ship.
Read the engraved stone, picture #2, for an interesting story about the Scots. The English Lords were really rough on the Scots. Wool was commanding very high prices so they wanted to raise more sheep. Lacking enough vacant land in England, they simply forced the Scots off their land in Scotland. As a result, thousands of Scots emigrated to Nova Scotia/New Scotland. Later on, in New Brunswick the English did a similar thing to the French settlers, forcing them off their land. Hence the Cajuns in Louisiana and other similar groups in parts on Maine & Canada.
The festival was help outdoors. We enjoyed the fiddlers, singers of folk songs & dancers. Had lunch then a wonderful ice cream cone. We think it was the best ice cream cone ever. Carol had a chocolate brownie cone and I had almond. We enjoyed the festival. Everyone we met were so friendly. Always smiling, saying hello, etc. So different from the Quebec Canadians we ran into at Burlington. I don't think we'll bother visiting Quebec but we would certainly come back to this part of Canada.
The weather started turning bad about 4:00 so we drove to our campground in Trenton. It was a City owner campground. Nice setting although we didn't see much; it was raining when we checked in and raining when we left.
In the morning we drove to Halifax. Took a rest break and ran across this mastodon exhibit in Stewiacke,NS.
