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Prince Edward Island

Prince Edward Island

Before we left Nova Scotia for Prince Edward Island (PEI), we learned a little about the First Nations people, especially the Mi’kmaq. For a long time, their stories were passed from one generation to the next by word of mouth. A missionary, Reverend Silas Tertius Rand, spent about 40 years with the Mi’kmaq and other First Nations people, making one of the first written recordings of some of their stories and legends. The Mi’kmaq people believed that Glooscap was the…

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The Bay of Fundy

The Bay of Fundy

A highlight of our Maritimes trip was visiting the Bay of Fundy where we could walk on the ocean floor at low tide. Tides are caused by gravitational forces exerted on the earth by the moon and to a lesser extent, the sun. Fundy’s tides are the highest in the world in part because of the funnel-shape of the bay which forces the water into a smaller space. At its fastest, the water level rises 13 feet in an hour….

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