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Cross Canada Video Tour: Halifax
Blog: i Backpack Canada - 25 May 2012
Filming has always intrigued me. There’s some superb travel bloggers and travel vloggers out there shooting their travels, and coming back with some incredible footage. Kinda makes me wonder, if a picture is worth a thousand words, what’s the going rate for video? Unfortunately, video has never really been something I’ve put a lot of [...]Cross Canada Video Tour: Halifax is a post from: I Backpack Canada
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12 Inspiring Tourism Videos on Canada
Blog: i Backpack Canada - 25 April 2012
The other day I came across Travel Alberta’s incredible award-winning (Remember to Breathe) tourism video, which somehow or another brought me to browsing the videos of every provincial & territorial tourism board. It’s great to see how much thought and passion goes into each of these videos, and what better way to explore a location [...]12 Inspiring Tourism Videos on Canada is a post from: I Backpack Canada
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Remembering the Victims of the Titanic in Halifax Nova Scotia
Blog: i Backpack Canada - 23 April 2012
100 Years ago the Titanic hit an iceberg that caused the deaths of over 1,500 lives.
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The Halifax Beach Guide – Nova Scotia’s Summer Playground
Blog: i Backpack Canada - 14 March 2012
As the snow finally begins to melt and the first signs of spring start clawing their way through the ice and cold, we Canadian’s tend to count down the days to the summer months. The thawing process of the Canadian people typically requires a large amount of coffee, and as much outdoor activity and direct [...]The Halifax Beach Guide – Nova Scotia’s Summer Playground is a post from: I Backpack Canada
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Where in the World?
Blog: Sophie's World - 26 October 2011
A new week, a new travel quiz. Where in the world is this? A crisp autumn day three years ago, the girls and I walked through this cemetery. It was a melancholic walk past the graves of hopeful immigrants, of children, of those never found. Two questions this time: Where in the world is this [...]Where in the World? is a post from Sophie's World
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The Colours of Music on Cape Breton
Blog: A Traveler's Library - 3 October 2011
Music Travel Monday Destination: Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia Music: Celtic Colours Festival By Kerry Dexter As October brings a crisp edge to the air and leaves start to take on their autumn colors, music fills the air even more than it usually does across the island of Cape Breton, in Nova Scotia. It’s time [...]This content is a post from: A Traveler's Library To comment on this post or search for related information, click on the link to A Traveler's Library. We'll leave a light on for you.
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8 Rockin’ Breweries in Halifax Nova Scotia!
Blog: i Backpack Canada - 31 August 2011
Haligonians tend to pride themselves as drinkers. (note: a Haligonian is a person from Halifax) The city is filled with pubs, restaurantes, and bars, partly due to the tourism, partly due to the fact that it’s a University town, and partly due to the celtic atmosphere that has evolved with the city. Old buildings, sail [...]8 Rockin’ Breweries in Halifax Nova Scotia! is a post from: I Backpack Canada
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Celtic Colours Festival on the way
Blog: Music Road - 27 August 2011
Cape Breton, in the far north east of the Canadian Maritime provinces, has sent its fiddle and piano driven music across the world, from Japan to Singapore to Germany to Brazil to every corner of the United States and across Canada, and back home again. It is a music which draws strongly from the heritage of the west of Scotland that settlers brought with them in earlier centuries -- so strongly, in fact that at times artists from Scotland have learned from Cape Bretoners how tunes and dances lost to memory back in Scotland are still done in Atlantic Canada.
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American in Nova Scotia
Blog: A Traveler's Library - 15 August 2011
Destination: Nova Scotia Book: My Famous Evening (2004) by Howard Norman Howard Norman, American writer, focuses on Nova Scotia in this eclectic book. Like one of those patchwork quilts made of individual squares that tell facets of a story, reflects Norton’s view of the essentials of Nova Scotia in an introduction and five essays/stories that [...]This content is a post from: A Traveler's Library To comment on this post or search for related information, click on the link to A Traveler's Library.
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Road Trip Nova Scotia
Blog: A Traveler's Library - 11 August 2011
No books or movies today–”just” a trip. Although if you would like to know about some movies made in Nova Scotia, there are quite a few, not to mention a current TV SyFy channel show, Haven. which was partially filmed in Lunenberg, and other Nova Scotia locations. Earlier I wrote about Campobello Island, the International [...]This content is a post from: A Traveler's Library To comment on this post or search for related information, click on the link to A Traveler's Library.
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Canadian Writer’s Nova Scotia
Blog: A Traveler's Library - 8 August 2011
Destination: Nova Scotia Book: Island: The Complete Stories (hardcover 2000, paperback Vintage copy from Random House in 2002), by Alistair MacLeod For a relatively small province of Canada, and one without major urban centers, Nova Scotia contributes quite a bit to the literary life of the country. More than a dozen small publishing companies serve [...]This content is a post from: A Traveler's Library To comment on this post or search for related information, click on the link to A Traveler's Library.
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Appalachian and Celtic: Kyle Carey: Monongah
Blog: Music Road - 27 July 2011
The Isle of Skye in Scotland, the west coast of Ireland, the Appalachian mountains, New Hampshire, New York Sate, Cape Breton: Kyle Carey has spent time in all of these places, and one way or another, they all find ways into her music.
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12 Free Things to do in Halifax, Nova Scotia
Blog: i Backpack Canada - 25 July 2011
Spending money in Halifax is incredibly easy. The patio beers, the museums, the art galleries, the tours, and the food. It all ends up taking its toll on your wallet. Having been a starving student in Halifax, I’ve managed to acquire a rather large list of free things to do in Halifax. Try and do [...]12 Free Things to do in Halifax, Nova Scotia is a post from: I Backpack Canada
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Canoeing and Island Camping in Kejimkujik National Park
Blog: i Backpack Canada - 18 July 2011
Two and a half hours from Halifax, the metropolitan city centre of the entire Maritimes, lies a National park of outstanding beauty. Where lakes, islands, trees, rivers and streams converge and form the 404 square kilometer national park known as Kejimkujik National Park.
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How to Dig for Clams: the Bay of Fundy
Blog: Solo Traveler - 4 July 2011
A peaceful excursion into a traditional lifestyle on the Bay of Fundy.
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Happy Canada Day – Lets Get Traditionally Drunk!
Blog: i Backpack Canada - 1 July 2011
Ah yes, it has finally arrived! One of my favourite Canadian holidays. People from coast to coast to coast put down their pens, close their books, shut down their computers, tuck in their roll-e-chairs that cause them lower back pain and say “Its go time baby!”. Canada Day, Dominion Day, La Fetes Du Canada, or [...]Happy Canada Day – Lets Get Traditionally Drunk! is a post from: I Backpack Canada
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music of Canada
Blog: Music Road - 27 June 2011
As part of celebrating five years of walking with you along the music road, I am building a series of resource pages about the primary subjects you’ll find here, to help you find your way around and learn more. Main areas you’ll find here at music road have to do with singers and songwriters, Americana music, the music of Ireland, Scotland, and Canada, and creative practice and inspiration
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Top Things To Do in The Bay of Fundy
Blog: Solo Traveler - 22 June 2011
I spent last week touring the Bay of Fundy. It's perfect for solo travelers. There is so much to do.
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Coffee and the Mojo Hat: Neil Pearlman
Blog: Music Road - 13 June 2011
It is a challenging line for musicians to walk: loving a tradition and then becoming deeply involved in another style, and wanting to hear them play off each other, to bring them together in new ways. Neil Pearlman brings this challenge off with flair and ingenuity. He’s grounded in Scottish tradition, and the other areas he brings in are Latin, funk, and jazz.
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Stan Rogers: songwriter of work, change, & sea
Blog: Music Road - 7 April 2011
A journey across Canada by a modern day man in search of himself, a trip by an explorer centuries go seeking a northwest passage to the Orient, and a bringing together of the strands of hope, connection, and regret all that implies: those are things Stan Rogers gets at in his song Northwest Passage. It is not surprising then that though Canada has a very fine national anthem already, when the CBC asked a few years back what people would choose for an alternate. Northwest Passage was it. The fact that it has an anthemic chorus helps imagine in that way, as well.
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Daily Travel Photo – Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia
Blog: Everything Everywhere - 2 February 2011
Originally posted on the Everything Everywhere Travel Blog. Discover great travel photos. No related posts.
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Daily Travel Photo – Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
Blog: Everything Everywhere - 22 December 2010
Originally posted on the Everything Everywhere Travel Blog. Discover great travel photos. No related posts.
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Daily Travel Photo – Joggins, Nova Scotia
Blog: Everything Everywhere - 4 December 2010
Originally posted on the Everything Everywhere Travel Blog. Discover great travel photos. No related posts.
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Solo Travel to Canada: 10 Things to Do in Halifax, Nova Scotia
Blog: Solo Traveler - 3 November 2010
Halifax is a great Canadian destination. Here's 10 things to do in a day in Halifax by a local who describes her city as perfect for the solo traveler.
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Celtic Colours coming in October
Blog: Music Road - 10 September 2010
It’s almost time for the Celtic Colours Festival.
