Halifax & Grand Pré & Wolfville - 7 hours - $280
Equivalent cost per person:
1 Passenger |
2 Passengers |
3 Passengers |
4 Passengers |
5 Passengers |
6 Passengers |
$280/person |
$140/person |
$83.33/person |
$70/person |
$53/person |
$46.67/person |
Halifax :
- Pier 21 Museum : an immigration facility from 1928 to 1971 in which one million immigrants went through and 500,000 Canadian military personnel departed from during World War II.
- Westin Hotel : built circa 1930, has 297 rooms and is the largest of the older hotels in Halifax.
- George Wright House : formerly owned by George Wright who died during the RMS Titanic tragedy in 1912.
- Point Pleasant Park : a 75 hectare/186 acre park created in 1866. The park has five fortifications that were used up to and including World War II.
- Point Pleasant Park Superintendent's Lodge : built in 1897 as a replica of a gate house of the estate of a former British Prime Minister.
- Saint Mary's University : 8000 students.
- Dalhousie University : 15500 students.
- Lord Nelson Hotel : built in 1928 and has 244 rooms.
- Public Gardens : a 7 hectare/17 acre Victorian style garden started in 1837.
- University of Kings College : established in 1789, has 1000 students and is the third oldest university in Canada.
- Horseshoe Park : a picturesque shore small park.
- Armdale Yacht Club : one of five in the Metro area.
- Fairview Lawn Cemetary : RMS Titanic victims graves.
- Hydrostone Neighbourhood : a neighbourhood rebuilt after the Halifax Explosion disaster of 1917 which is the greatest accidental human created explosion in history.
- Halifax Explosion Carillon : a memorial to the victims of the Halifax Explosion.
- Metro Centre : 10000 seat arena.
- Halifax Citadel : a National Historic Site. A military fortification built between 1828 and 1856 and dominates the Halifax downtown.
- Halifax Common : a park of open green space that was created in 1760 and has 30 hectares/70 acres.
- Halifax Downtown : much of the downtown area was layed-out in 1749..
- St. Paul's Church : is the oldest existing building in Halifax and was built in 1750.
- City Hall : built in 1889.
- Granville Mall : a pedestrian plaza constructed after a major fire in 1859 in a Victorian-Italianate style.
- Province House : houses the Nova Scotia Legislature and was built between 1811 and 1818.
- Halifax-Dartmouth Ferry : started in 1752 and is the oldest continually operating salt water ferry in Canada and the USA.
- Naval Clock : the clock was built in 1767 in London and originally was located in the Halifax Naval Dockyard from 1772 to 1993.
Windsor :
A small town that may be the birthplace of ice hockey, also the birthplace of Thomas Chandler Haliburton who created the literary character of 'San Slick' (c.1835), and the location of the Fort Edward National Historic Site of Canada which is the last surviving military blockhouse fortification in Nova Scotia and the oldest such original fortification in Canada.
Grand Pré : (admission fee charged)
Grand Pré is famous for being the site were the British deported Acadians from 1755 to 1763. It is now a National Historic Site. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1847 poem 'Evangeline : A Tale of Acadie' tells of the Deportation and is inspirational to Acadians.
Wolfville :
A small university town with many heritage homes.
The Lookoff :
A spectacular viewpoint of the Annapolis Valley and the Minas Basin showing farmlands, orchards, woods and shoreline.
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