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The Serpentine, "George Lansbury's Lido", la packed with bathers this hot weather. Who would think this was the heart of London,

COUNTRY WITHOUT A NIGHT CLUB

AMERICA'S DISCOVERY OF LAND OF EVANGELINE

By E. Chapin May

Taking a night boat out of New York by way of Boston we had landed at Yarmouth at an early morning hour and travelled by rail along the famous Annapolis Valley through Digby, Annapolis Royal and Kentville to Grande Pre, some-time home of "Evangeline." By the end of the afternoon our train had taken us into the Pro- vincial capital, Halifax.

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For days and nights thereafter we journeyed hither,

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BRITISH PLANES

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Tokyo.

Five new British planes are to ba purchased immediately for the Tokyo-Hsinking-Dairen alrways injka) order that the one-day service which was started on May 1 may be continued through the winter. months. The machines are each; capable of carrying eight pas sengers-United Prens,

members of our Provincial Cabinet and Judiciary have belonged to our Halifax Curling Club, "which Is celebrating its 110th anniver- sary this year.

"One of our most active curiers

la Captain' Nell Hall, doing a good || "*** job as skip for thirty-five of his/ seventy-seven years. Mr. Cilifford, Kerr, one of the runners-up at our last charity bohspiel, has been skipping forty-al years NUC- cenaively and successfully. When New Glasgow's veteran curler, Mr. Peter A. MacGregor, felt a little wenry after a long night of curling he attributed his fatigue to an automobile accident which' bofell him in his eightieth year.”

Curling is mentioned in this instance because it is probably the only purely amateur sport which thrives without employing re- ferees or umpires. One must be a gentleman and a good loner to atoy with curling year in and your out.

WINTER COMES LATE

Winter

comes late in Nova Mussolini harvests with his cap backwards, his shirt off and his goggles on.

That's to show he's a dictator.

pool and a pipe.

haddock and halibut follow them voraciously. Just Us hungrily fishermen pursue the big fish. Be- tween deep-sca expeditions they go in for aquatic contests. Hence there comes into the scene each July a Nova Scotian Deep Sea Rodeo and Aquatic Carnival, held in the north- west arm of the sea flanking Hall- fax, where casting contests, swim- ming races, high and fancy diving, water polo, aur-board riding be hind fast motorboats, canoe tilting and "fishing" for humans are added to shell races and other festivities.

In the meanwhile, white-sailed yachts race from Boston or New York to Nova Scotia or race each other in Nova Scotian waters.

On the western side this Mari- time Province has its own activities. Each May comes the miracle of millions of apple, blossoms, fore- runners of 2,000,000 barrels of apples which will be borne by trees in Annapolis Valley. And, of course, Kentville must have its Apple Blossom Festival.

A few miles south of Kentville,

Annapolis Royal, with people and aboriginal Micmac Indians join in celebrating the landing in 1604 of Timothe Pierre de Monts and Sieur Samuel de Champlain and the founding of what is now Annapolis Boyal, cldest city except St. Augus- tine on the continent. This July- August festival also commemorates founding, by Champlain, "Captain in Ordinary for the King in the Navy, Soldier and Gentle- man of France," of "The Order of the Good Time," America's first social club, at his first "Habitation" in America

and thither through the Canadian Province named "New Keepinng cool in London is no trial for this gentleman. All ke neods is a Scotland" by King James I of England in 1622. Kind- ness, courtesy, a shy conservatism marked the men, women and children with whom we mingled. The beauty of cliff-Scotia. The offshore Gulf Stream 7 inches, thereby shattering a pre-ncar the site of Fort St. Anne at crowned seacoasts, public gardens, broad acres of wheat, has something to do with this. vious world's record of 125 feet. But before winter has finished At Lake Williams, also, George barley and potatoes; the greens and fairways of sporty lingering in the lap of spring. Skinner makes good his cry, golf courses; thousands of square miles of apple orchards; sixty Inches of snow may fall on "Twenty-five out of twenty-five!" in "Now Scotland" and the tempera-competitive trap shooting: Indian leagues of dyke-protected meadows adjoining the soaring ture may drop to 11 degrees Chief Johnnie McEwan of Bear tides of the Bay of Fundy; the peace, quiet and simplicity Fahrenheit below zero. Hence River wins the guides' log-chopping of "The Land of Evangeline" impressed us profoundly.

summer is the visitors' season. contest, letting the chips fall where Each summer myriads of world- they may; and Guides' Champion Nova Scotin was charm brightly he explained.

the weary travellers venture across Eber Peck demonstrates perfect co- visualised. But it was not until Subsequent investigation sub-the North Atlantic Ocean or the urdination of muscles while log- our good ship Evangeline was stantiated this declaration. Al Bay of Funndy or go up through rolling his competitors into cold about to steam homeward from though luring multitudes of Maine and New Brunswick by water Yarmouth Harbour that I was vacationists to its shores, "The rail or motor to relax in The impelled to ask a leading question. Land of Evangeline" has not "gone Land of Evangeline."

"How many night clubs are re- Broadway,"

Most of these pilgrims have been nor has it suffered quired to entertain your 500,000 materially from this eccentricity. brought up

Longfellow's Nova Scotians and their visitors?" Its 600,000 natives get along nicely "Evangeline." More than 18,000 I asked our guide, mentor and in- and have a splendid time in spite of them annually write their names drink fresh milk from tested dairy courses; in holding a valuable associate..

of their deprivation.

In a guest book of the Norman herds, play on the sands and dove Carnival at Pleton during July and "We have no night clubs" in| Said white-haired, handsome chapel which marks the site of lop huge appetites. Out in deep there and then Nova Scotin." he replied without "Kod" McColl, looking up from a Evangeline's Church of St. Charles water the mighty Zane Grey and "Loster King"; has started a five- crowning its hesitation.

"Not oven in Halifax with its of railroad excursions. to a cham- youngsters, for whom romance still catch champion tuna fish. Thomas of motor roads; has opened some of

morning paper filled with accountant Grant Pre.

To these elders and others famous in the art piscatoria! year plan for perfecting its miles 60,000 citizens?" I demanded. plonship hockey match and stories lives, Grand Pre's Memorial Park, Howells's 066-pounder is still the the most comfortable

"We have never, needed any; we about Nova Scotia's

French willows,

hotels in fertile world's record with rod and reel. meadows, remains of French ronds mighty old

eastern North America. Early each spring the herring main Nova Scotia is still Acadia, But in the and the iron cross which marks the spawn in boys and inlets. point at which Acadians were ex-

Cod, just grown up a little. pelled from their beloved village have irresistible fuscination. Dele- gations come from Evangeline's burial place in Louisiana to gaze al- most reverently upon her beautiful statue in the place of her birth.

have too many natural attractions," curlers: "Our Premier, several

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Here's one of those "Robot" planès England has been on-

perimenting with. There's the plist, watching it..

on

SPORTSMEN'S PARADISE

Yet sportsmen and realists vic with romanticists and artists in flocking to a region Innocent of highly heated night life Many a thrilling camera shot has, rewarded the stalker who, penetrating Nova Scotian woods on a hot summer's day, comes stealthily upon a magni- ficent bull moose feeding on water. Illies beside a trout-filled stream or finds himself photographing the graceful Virginia deer or a flight of woodcock fleeing from cover.

Trout and salmon were Nova Scotia's original inhabitants. The cool, clear waters of hundreds of spring-fed streams and lakes still harbour uncounter thousands of finny folk. For more than a quar- tor-century the Nova Scotia Guides' Meet has held a unique charm for hunters and fishers, until the annual August gathering at Lake William finds four hundred tents filled with campers and 6,000 visitors witness- Ing the sports programme every day.

Lake Williams is, where "Ben" Annis of Boston introduced "B" Edson to a fly-fishing multitude and where "Bill" cast a fly 127 feet and

FOR YOUNG AND OLD Beaches almost surround Nova Scotin, hence it is a great place in summer for growing children, who

nity Nova Scotia tas bullt morg As final gestures toward moder- than dozen Intriguing golf Lobster

Teaching Rusalang the day of the parachute in Moscow lan't hard. Chute jumping, bus become one of the most popular of sports,

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