Connect Magazine 8th Annual Edition 2015/16

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REAL ESTATE * LIFESTYLE * BUSINESS

DISCOVER YOUR OWN

LIFE.WORK. HARMONY .

A Life in

Tune

Nova Scotia’s Luthier

you can do it!

Channel your Creativity to what You do best

A Roof of

One’s

Own

1963 The Ladies Home Journal Vintage Article ‘show & tell’

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Real Estate Editor: M. Robinson Financial Controller: F. Harmsen

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A ROOF OF ONE’S OWN

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INTRODUCING:

Design & Graphic Production: CC Group, Julia Robinson Article Contributors: Tim Brushett Hillary Dionne Kerstin Rohde Dennis McCloskey

1963 The Ladies Home Journal Vintage Article ‘show & tell’.

Written by Phyllis McGinley

Cover Photo: Julia Robinson Photo Credits: Julia Robinson Frank Harmsen Hillary Dionne Joanna Lane Marion Hetze

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46 HAVE WE GOT A HOME or COTTAGE FOR YOU! Real Estate for Sale:

contents Lifestyle 6

A LIFE IN TUNE With Luthier, Michael Barrett

Business 18

SALMON RIVER COUNTRY INN ‘The unbroken thread of historic Eastern Shore hospitality & welcome’

11 YOU CAN DO IT! Channel your creativity to what you do best. Article by Dennis McCloskey

12 SOMETHING OLD,

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SEASONS OF YOUR LIFE

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ON THE LEVEL

With Halifax Astrologer Holly Poole

Maintaining & Improving your home.

Article by Tim Brushett

SOMETHING NEW Wishing Stones Studio & Gallery

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STANDING OUT AMONGST THE COMPETITION With Joanna Lane of StagedForUpsell.com

20 LIFE.WORK.HARMONY. der Antiratgeber With Kerstin Rohde

21 SIMPLY A GOOD CUP OF COFFEE Method & Hands on Information 3.

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make your Life Work in Harmony.

I’ve begun knitting again.

And, like some unexpected delight, I’ve rediscovered the joy of spending time in my kitchen. Dusting off all the amazing recipes for which I was celebrated back when I had the luxury of time to entertain family and friends.

I think of it as the BB Era (Before Business).

Before I incorporated my own company in 2005 to embark on the uncertain but exciting road to self-employment.

Before recession. Before all the ups and downs, uncertainties and triumphs both big and small. Before all the amazing people and experiences I’ve encountered over the past 10 years.

What an extraordinary ride this has been and it’s far from over! But something’s changed. Sure, we’ve weathered a recession. And despite the persistent challenge of growing your own business it feels like there’s breathing room now.

But the change goes much deeper and as I reflect on it I realize I’ve accomplished something less tangible but no less real. Harmony … my Life-Work-Harmony.

Realizing this and knowing how it feels I ask myself, how much work and what standard of mindfulness is required to maintain this wonderful balance? The answer is clear and immediate. Whatever it takes.

And what about you? How has the past decade treated you and where do you imagine yourself going from here?

Are you a self-employed ‘recession survivor’ or a closet entrepreneur who’s been working for someone else long enough and are yearning for that barely recognized but intuitively understood sense of Life-Work-Harmony.

The fact is that the economic slowdown of the past few years, with its casualties and its survivors, has brought with it other changes. ‘Shop local’ is no longer simply a catchphrase for connection to our community food market. It’s evolved into a way of doing business as well as a lifestyle. The acknowledgement of our dependence on one another liberates us. Our networking becomes an exercise in candour and brings us joy.

We understand that small is fine and quite often, less is more. This is the essence of Life-Work-Harmony.

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From the beginning the purpose of Connect Magazine, marketing considerations aside, has been to engender a symbiotic connection with our community. CCGroup Publishing … the name says it all.

I’m ever aware of the many circles that make up our lives and the world around us. I recognize one such circle closing now as we emerge, survivors of these tough economic years. It heralds a re-claiming of lifestyle, a re-purposing of energy, a re-inventing of past experience into the now.

Within the pages of this our 8th Connect Magazine, we introduce you to energetic entrepreneurs and select real estate possibilities. You will find inspiration and opportunities for your own unique expression of Life-WorkHarmony.

According to the study of Numerology, 2015 is considered an ‘8 year’. It’s the lucky number in business, denoting intuition and insight. The ‘win-win’.

It seems auspicious that we’ve connected with Newfoundland born Holly Poole, Nova Scotia’s professional astrologer. We know how the moon guides the daily business of the tides. Holly, in her own maritime language, explains the planetary forces affecting our entrepreneurial lives.

Tuning ourselves to our world is critical in achieving balance in life and work. This couldn’t be more clearly defined than in our article on local luthier, Michael Barrett.

And, along with rediscovery of the joy of knitting and the pleasures of my kitchen I re-connect with my collection of vintage magazines, by way of an article by Phyllis McGinley in a 1963 issue of ‘The Ladies Home Journal’.

After reading my ‘show and tell’ I will ask the question, what has changed in 70 years on the subject of home hunting and happy nesting?

So, here’s to serious fun and good business in our shared 8th year, 2015!

Halifax, NS. 902-401-3347 JuliaRobinsonPhotography@gmail.com JuliaRobinsonPhotography.com

Lifestyle | Portrait | Event

Tune a life in

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with Luthier

MICHAEL BARRETT

Originating as it does alongside the harbour in downtown Dartmouth, Nova Scotia’s Route 207 merits its name, ‘Marine Drive’, as designated in the Provincial tourist maps. But the road is full of surprises. It departs the city waterfront immediately, heading inland through the old city and into the suburbs where it swells brieŌy to X lanes to handle the demands of daily commuter traőc. The road reverts then to 2 lanes and crests a steep hill at the border of Cole Harbour where it oŊers stunning views of the Cole Harbour Dykes and the deep blue Atlantic. From there Route 207 traces the twisting contours of the Eastern Shore on its way northeast to Cape Breton Island and if =uaint ŋshing villages, rugged coastline and oŊshore archipelagoes are your thing then Marine Drive is a must see.

An easy ŋfteen minute drive from Cole Harbour brings

the traveller to the community of Lawrencetown. Pass the Lawrencetown Community Centre on the left and seconds later one comes to the Lawrencetown Grocery.

It’s a popular stopping place for surfers and beach goers driving to and from the spectacular beach just minutes further on. Directly opposite is Maple Drive, a short dead end road with a handful of homes and views of the breakers at the beach as well as the watershed of Lake Echo and Porter’s Lake where it empties into the Atlantic.

I turn into the driveway of 2X Maple Drive and I’m immediately greeted by a pair of large, boisterous dogs. The driveway separates the house from a single storey 3 bay garage and as I come to a stop a tall, thin ŋgure appears in the lone man door of the shop. This is Michael Barrett, owner/operator of Barrett Guitar Works. He calls the dogs to him while beckoning me from my vehicle with a wave of his hand. r Don’t worry,s he says, r they’re friendly. They might lick you to death though.”

The shop is unassuming, drab even and there’s no signage indicating its purpose. “ I considered hanging out a sign,” Mike says as we step inside, “ but I frankly haven’t felt the need.

Most of my work comes from referrals and repeat customers and I’m plenty busy. Also I have a number of valuable instruments around at any given time. That’s something I prefer not to advertise.”

Inside the shop the decidedly plain exterior is belied by an array of instruments and projects underway. Stringed instruments are literally everywhere, whole and in pieces.

They’re mostly acoustic or electric guitars but include a few violins, a mandolin and a lute. Two work benches stand opposite one another, their surfaces strewn with tools and materials and guitars opened up like patients on an operating table. The wall facing the larger bench bears a half dozen hooks that hold instruments in various stages of repair. Behind the other bench a rack extends the full width from wall to wall. It’s packed with guitars in cases.

Michael laughs and lifts his hand in their direction. “ Those are almost entirely guitars waiting to be worked on. We had the rack nearly emptied by Christmas but by the time we started back to work in January it was full again.”

I shrug. “ You don’t often hear business owners complaining of too much work.”

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He shakes his head. “ Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining exactly. But it’s kind of nice to see the rack nearly empty every so often. It gives you a sense of progress, if you get my drift.”

He indicates the half dozen guitars hanging on the wall opposite the larger workbench. “All those instruments, they’re projects underway. It’s kind of a juggling act. It’s the nature of the work that you can often only do so much before you have to wait for parts, or for glue to dry or ŋnish to cure, that sort of thing, before moving along to the next phase of the job. There’s a deŋnite order to things and the result is we end up with a number of projects happening simultaneously.” “ Sounds complicated,” I say. “ It is that, but also stimulating. You’re never bored.

Some of the stuŊ we do, like fret dressing or basic set-ups, it can go pretty quickly. But other projects can’t be rushed.

They can take weeks.”

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Michael celebrated his 60th birthday recently. I ask him how he became involved with the luthier’s art. “ Not a planned thing, really,” he replies. “ Leastways, not until a few years ago. Looking back though it seems like I’ve been heading here most of my life. I suppose it started with my passion for music.

I ‘took possession’ of my sister’s guitar when I was 14. To be perfectly honest I guess I stole it from her. But she wasn’t really playing it - at least that’s how I justiŋed it at the time. I played and practiced constantly. Teenage boys have time and energy in spades, the two vital factors required for learning to play an instrument.

I was in a number of bands between 1969 and 1974 and some of them were even good. We toured and it was all pretty exciting but by the end it just wasn’t a healthy lifestyle. I ŋgured I needed discipline in my life so I joined the Air Force in ‘74. I was meteorological tech … did my 4 years and at discharge went to NSCC to study architectural/mechanical drafting. I’ve always been fond of detail and exactness and I have a knack for math. I was hired right from technical school by Harris Rebar. They’re an international construction ŋrm, projects all over the world.

It’s high pressure work though. Deadlines and last minute changes, lots of overtime.”

Mike sighs and shakes his head. “ It was a diőcult work environment. It demanded a lot of stamina and you had to be adaptable - abrupt plan changes, constant problem solving and too much time sitting at a computer or drafting table - that sort of thing.

After 24 years with them I had serious upper body repetitive stress disorder and even more serious burnout.

I was basically forced to retire … no real sense of what I wanted to do next other than heal myself. I knew I needed more balance in my life. That’s when I met Harland Suttis.” “ Your mentor?”

“ Right. I wanted to reŋnish one of my electric guitars and Harland was oŊering a basic course in guitar construction. Afterwards I decided to try and build my own acoustic guitar and I asked Harland if he’d be interested in taking on an apprentice.” Mike smiles before continuing. “ He said no.” “ Obviously you managed to persuade him otherwise,” I say. “ Oh, yeah. But not right away. You have to realize that Harland is a real heavyweight in the business. He was a guitar playing prodigy to begin with, touring and recording in Nashville and Toronto at age 1Y, that kind of prodigy.

But he simply had no interest in the lifestyle and opted to study the luthier’s trade instead. He’s taken the required manufacturers’ courses but otherwise he’s pretty much self taught. Still he’s paid his dues by any standard. He’s the only licensed repair tech east of Toronto for most of the major brands … Martin, Gibson, Taylor, Yamaha, you name it. I ŋgure I probably wore him down until he agreed to give me a try just to shut me up. I ended up studying with him for 6 years.” “ How was that?” “ Well, Harland’s what you might consider somewhat eccentric so we had our diŊerences at times but we hung in with one another. I like to think it was out of mutual respect. In my case for his abilities and insistence on doing the very best work. In turn he recognized that I was committed and shared his passion for detail and ŋne

work. We became good friends and I still call him when I encounter problems. Harland’s basically retired and refers most of his work to me now.”

“ Your business is Ōourishing, obviously” I say, indicating the number of instruments awaiting attention. “ The business is doing very well, yes. I have an apprentice of my own in the shop from Tuesday to Thursday and every Wednesday we have a high school student from Halifax in for job shadowing.

He’s also interested in becoming a luthier. Young people bring a great energy with them. And our client base is building exponentially. We’ve established a reputation for top quality work. Some of the area’s best working musicians bring their instruments to us.

The company logo pretty much sums it up.

‘Tuned To Your Satisfaction.’ No job is considered complete until the client is totally satisŋed.”

For a moment Michael appears lost in thought. “ But I think it goes much deeper than that,” he says. “ It’s about life and work being in tune with one another as well. There’s a balance to my life that I feel as if I’m experiencing for the ŋrst time. It’s a wonderful place to be.

Article by: Tim Brushett Photos by: Julia Robinson

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YOU CAN DO IT!

Channel your creativity to what you do best.

In 1964 I was a Grade 10 student at West Kings District High School in Auburn, Nova Scotia, and at least one teacher thought I was a blockhead.

One day, our Shop teacher was teaching a Woodworking class and our assignment was to make a bookcase. For reasons only known to my 16-year-old brain, I spent the time hammering 50 nails into a block of wood, all concentric but at different depths and angles. When my handiwork was discovered, I was kicked out of class, given a detention and the teacher tore a strip off me, telling me I was wasting his time and mine and the school’s resources. His tirade left me with the feeling I wouldn’t amount to very much in life.

The episode scarred me because I believed I was being creative by expressing my inner artistic self. Thankfully, another teacher in the same school (my PhysEd teacher, Mr. Laing) recognized my interest in readin’ and ritin’ and he encouraged me to consider Journalism as a career. I thanked him for his guidance and said I’d much rather construct a sentence than a bookcase!

Following high school, and partly because of my Shop teacher, a career as a carpenter, electrician or plumber was not considered. I enrolled in Ryerson’s Journalism program. For more than four decades now, I have enjoyed a fruitful living writing for newspapers, magazines, corporate publications, and producing fiction and non-fiction books. I was as much influenced by Mr. Laing as I was by Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) who wrote, “No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.”

In 1977, a writing assignment took me to Toronto’s City Hall and when I walked through those large wooden doors, I saw something on the east wall near the entrance that felt like a hammer-blow to the

side of my head! It was a massive nail mural! To my astonishment, I later learned it is a work of art by David Partridge, titled “Metropolis” which is “a symbolic interpretation of a great city or metropolis.”

Further research indicated that it was created from 100,000 common nails!

It was a turning point in my life. I felt vindicated!

After seeing that objet d’art at City Hall, I gained some much-needed confidence in what I thought I could not do. My wife, Kris, and I bought a cottage and despite a steep learning curve we installed tongueand-groove walls and ceilings, hung doors, painted, stained, and performed all the manual chores that comes with owning a cottage.

Last year, I built a rec room in the basement of our 30-year home. I did not do it alone. I hired an electrician, ceiling installer and carpet layer to do work best performed by professionals. Kris served as the contractor and labourer, and a friend and retired school teacher from London,

Ontario, Dennis DesRivieres, lent his experienced hands to help us frame, insulate, drywall, tape, and mud. We were a perfect team and the finished room is an extraordinary--can I say it? -- work of art!

I look back on the reaction of my Shop teacher to my block of nails, and I now realize I should not have allowed him to stifle my creativity. We are the architects of our own lives and I should have had more confidence in myself to explain to him that it was my way of self-expression.

I was wrong to disobey his order to build a bookcase and I should have apologized for that, but there should be room for all forms of self-expression in school.

It took years for me to bury the hatchet over that high school incident, but I have since learned that we should not allow mental blocks to control us.

“Set yourself free. Confront your fears and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.”

- Dr. Roopleen

Dennis McCloskey is a fulltime freelance writer, based in the Greater Toronto Area of Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada.

Since graduating from Ryerson University with a Journalism Degree in 1971, he has worked as a corporate journalist and editor, newspaper columnist, magazine writer, and book author. Several hundred of his human interest and business articles have appeared in over 65 newspapers, consumer publications and trade magazines in Canada, the United States and Europe. He has also written eight books. He and his wife, Kris, are avid travelers and Caribbean cruisers. Born on Prince Edward Island (on Canada’s east coast) Dennis lists Rome, Paris, London, and Charlottetown P.E.I. as his favorite cities.

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Something Old, Something New

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Thirty-six years ago my family was swept up in a whirlwind. Precipitated by the desperate need for change and motivated by the basic knowledge that less is often more, we crossed our fingers and made a huge leap of faith.

With open minds and willing hearts we were lifted and transported from the Boston suburbs and then deposited safe and sound into a new life in Nova Scotia. It was a completely different life and it was ripe with examples of quality versus quantity. Indeed, we

discovered that having so much less had given us so much more.

At the centre of this new life was an old building. For over eighty years the building was an old fashioned general store. For the last twenty-five of those years my parents were the storekeepers and I grew up within the building’s old, crooked walls; helping out whenever needed, playing hide-and-seek in the back rooms and attic with my friends, being treated to handfuls of penny candy on Sunday mornings.

ordinary. If you are an artist or a photographer or a writer there is no shortage of inspiration as you travel along the dirt roads and walk beside quiet pastures or comb the pebbly beaches.

If you need to get away from the hustle and bustle of every-day life you will certainly appreciate the island’s slower pace and fresh, salty air. If you visit at low tide there is no better nature experience for your children than exploring tidal pools and catching hermit crabs. You can rent a bike, do some geocaching or birding, have a picnic lunch along the way and simply unplug and recharge while you’re island-side.

There really is something for everyone on Big Tancook Island ... and Wishing Stones is a great place to start your adventure.

Now, despite all the movement and growth and flow that has shaped my life, that old building is still a huge part of who I am. It is no longer a general store but it is still a place where my community gathers and a place where visitors come to explore and adventure. It is a place where I can create and play and do whatever I like, whenever I wish. It is where I had the chance to become an entrepreneur and start a small business of my own, transforming the building into a photo gallery, library and museum. I’ve made incredible connections and built many friendships here and it is where I feel happy and blessed and centered.

In the beginning I was just happy to have a place to display and sell my photography – tiny glimpses of the island as seen through my eyes.

Eventually I ended up with an eclectic collection of other delightful treasures to sell, made on the island by island artisans; things like home-made preserves, beautiful hooked rugs and rustic wooden fish and whales to compliment any decor.

I call the old building “Wishing Stones Studio & Gallery”. As silly as it may sound, I feel that this old building is every bit as enchanted as it is charming. Its intrigue and uniqueness draws people in and binds them together, magically. For many visitors it is an experience that treats them to something different and special and leaves a lasting imprint on their hearts and minds.

Part of the intrigue of this creative space of mine is that it is located on a small island called Big Tancook ... a perfect get-away for any day tripper looking for something out-of-the-

If you’re interested in seeing some old artifacts and experiencing a bit of history you can get your fill by browsing the museum rooms or hearing stories shared by island residents who occasionally drop in for a cup of tea or just to chat. My mother started the museum in a small shed back in the 1990s and I moved all the pieces into the gallery building to give them a better display. It is full of everyday items once used on the island that would have been lost forever if my mother hadn’t started to collect them.

One of my new ventures this past year involves making beach glass jewelry with visitors; a fun tourism experience organized through a newly formed business called “Experience Nova Scotia”. If you are feeling creative and would like to try your hand at making 13.

a bit of beach glass jewelry you can sign up and once I know you’re coming I’ll have a workshop all ready when you get here. Each person who signs up will visit the beach beside the gallery to find their own special pieces of beach glass and then, upon returning to the gallery, I will provide all the materials and tools needed to turn the beach glass into treasured keepsakes.

At the end of the workshop each person will have made their own unique and beautiful beach glass pendant to wear around their neck or pair of beach glass earrings; special souvenirs of their island visit.

Sometimes people are just looking for a quiet place to sit for a couple of hours with a good book. The lending library at Wishing Stones has over 4000 books just waiting to be enjoyed.

Oftentimes visitors come in and order a cup of tea or coffee and just relax for a while. The gallery also has a games room where anyone can put together a jigsaw puzzle, play cards or even throw a few darts. There are also lots of fun things to entertain children -- like Tinker Toys, a big tub of Lego, colouring books and paper to draw on and lots of puzzles and games. I really love seeing visitors come and have a memorable and enjoyable experience.

Are you a knitter? One of the people I met here on the island and have become great friends with is a well renowned knitter. Her name is Lucy Neatby. She has a cottage on the island and spends as much time here as she can. Lucy has a brilliant and colourful mind and has dreamt up and brought to fruition over 100 of her own incredible knitting patterns. In the early days of my friendship with Lucy, she brought a scarf to my house and asked me if I’d like to try to photograph it for her.

She uses photos of her knits throughout her patterns and instructional books, and on her website. She thought it would be fun to see what kind of photos I would take of her knits and, although my passion is nature, I knew it would be aesthetically pleasing to photograph some beautiful ‘textile art’ in a natural setting. She was quite pleased with the results of the first photo shoot and since then I have

photographed most of her creations.

She produces an amazingly beautiful knitted item, such as a shawl or a pair of socks or mittens, or even an incredibly intricate sweater, and I stage it and photograph it in a natural and artistic setting. Some of Lucy’s patterns and yarns can be found at Wishing Stones and if you’re lucky you might even see Lucy there in person, having a cup of tea and sharing a story or two with me.

Another spin-off of our friendship and business relationship is that every two years Lucy and I organize a week-long “knit camp” for a dozen or so women and men who are adventurous knitters.

These campers are treated not only to daily knitting instruction with Lucy, but they also get to experience what island life is all about; being part of a close-knit community (no pun intended), some home-cooked island meals, local entertainment and discovering so many little things that feed the spirit and nourish the soul.

Throughout the entire week of knit camp, the gallery also becomes a knitting supply shop full of everything the knitters could want or need. There are stacks and piles of deliciously coloured yarns that you just can’t help touching, all shapes and sizes of needles and all kinds of knitting patterns available.

Through these knit camps I have met some incredible people and made some wonderful friends.

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Wishing Stones plays a big part in so many things that happen on this island and in my life. Looking back over the years it is remarkable how the gallery has evolved and changed, not only as my own small business, but as a vibrant and socially important part of my community.

Back in July of 2009 the gallery consisted of one simple room which was decorated like a sea shanty and housed only my island nature photography.

As the seasons came and went the gallery grew to encompass and embrace other special aspects of the island that needed to be shared and showcased.

It is very important to me that Wishing Stones continues to offer island visitors a unique experience and a take-away of great memories. It is also very important to me that I continue to meet and connect with amazing people as I journey, some of whom I will build lasting friendships with and share many great times.

The month of May, 2015 will mark the opening of Wishing Stones’ seventh season in the old general store building. Right now I can only imagine what new and exciting things might be just around the corner.

To learn more about Wishing Stones Studio & Gallery visit: WishingStonesGallery.com or to book a beach glass workshop contact: ExperienceNovaScotia.com To learn more about Lucy Neatby visit her website at: LucyNeatby.com To learn about Big Tancook Island in general, visit the Tancook Island homepage at: Tancook.ca or have a look at the island’s tourism website: TancookIslandTourism.ca

Wishing Stones Studio & Gallery is located at 151 Southeast Cove Road on Big dancooŬ /sland͕ Eova ScoƟa͘ /t͛s aƉƉrodžiŵately a one ŵile ǁalŬ͕ on unƉaved roads͕ Ĩroŵ the governŵent ǁharĨ ǁhere the Ĩerry docŬs͘ /Ĩ you taŬe džit ϳ oī ,ighǁay 1Ϭϯ you ǁill Įnd signage direcƟng you to the dancooŬ /sland &erry ǁhich leaves Ĩroŵ the ƉicturesƋue seaside village oĨ Chester͕ ES͘

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Welcome Willkommen to the Salmon River Country Inn

9931 Highway #7 Jeddore, Nova Scotia 902.889.2233 Margit@SalmonRiverCountryInn.ca SalmonRiverCountryInn.ca

We are a family business and in our German Canadian Kitchen we use ingredients as fresh and local as possible and where and whenever available, organically grown.

We gladly respect your special and unique food requirements and wishes, so please feel free to speak with us so that we might serve you best!

Expect the food to come out of our kitchen freshly prepared since nothing is pre-cooked; and when your meal is ordered it is then created with ECTG CPF ĆƒCKT So please be comfortable, sit back enjoy the view and let our Chef’s menu creations satisfy your senses.

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Salmon River Country Inn

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In the late fall of 2014 I was able to meet with Margit Wechsler. Margit and her husband, Ernst, are the recent owners of the newly named Salmon River Country Inn. Margit is something of a legend in her own right on the Eastern Shore. Her passion for food and hospitality is well established from her eleven years as head cook at Memory Lane Heritage Village. We sat down before the Įreplace in the Inn͛s lounge with stunning views of the inlet and surrounding hills. ͘ ͘ an you tell us a liƩle about your family and what prompted you to emigrate to Canada?

M.W. Sure. You know my husband, Ernst ... we have been married for 40 years and we have 4 adult children.

Two of the girls live here in Nova ScoƟa. The oldest child, our son is 18.

married with a family of his own in Kntario and the third daughter sƟll lives in Germany. Really none of the children were keen to leave Germany but I think my enthusiasm for Nova ScoƟa changed their minds.

C.C. And you have foster children as well ...

M.W. Yes. we͛ve taken in a number of foster children and adopted 4 siblings into our family. Ernst and I love the energy of young children.

C.C. SƟll͕ it can’t have been easy to leave behind your life in Germany and uproot the enƟre family?

M.W. No, it was not. We lived in the South of Germany where I was involved in local poliƟcs with the Green Party. I was a kindergarten teacher and had recently Įnished my masters degree in what we call ‘House Economics͛ in Germany.

C.C. I’m guessing that isn’t the same as our ‘Home Economics”.

M.W. It covers some of the same things, housekeeping stuī. But much more. House construcƟon and codes, things a general contractor would know. But also gardening and growing your own food, alternaƟve energy as well as caring for children and the elderly. nd more. It͛s very .. ;she laughs and shakes her headͿ. I͛m not sure of the word ..

C.C. Comprehensive?

M.W. Yes ... comprehensive. Very complete.

C.C. Why did you choose to come to Eova ScoƟa?

M.W. Ernst and I did a lot of research. I think circumstances pointed us in this direcƟon and I tend to listen to my intuiƟon. Property was less edžpensive here and we liked the wildness of the

Eastern Shore - it didn’t seem so developed as other parts of the Province. lso Nova ScoƟa has always had its share of German immigrants.

Mostly they’re known for seƩling on the South Shore but plenty of them have found their way to this part of the Province as well. It’s obvious in some of the local names like Siteman and the Myers, who were the original family who lived in the present day &isherman’s Life Museum in Kyster Pond. nd the Webbers &amily, who ran the local general store - “Webbers͟ - in Lake CharloƩe for several generaƟons. ll of German heritage.

C.C. And your family home is near Clam Harbour?

M.W. Yes. We seƩled in Clam Harbour when we emigrated 21 years ago. We grow some of our food and we raised angora goats unƟl recently. lso, we used to operate a small B&B there which we’ve closed down since embarking on the Salmon River Country Inn. C.C. And you worked at Memory Lane Heritage sillage in Lake CharloƩe.

M.W. I managed the cookhouse kitchen there preƩy much from the start. Lots of good memories for me and the enƟre family ͙ the Village is very much a community proũect.

That’s where the Passport inners originated, dinners focused on a parƟcular country and culture. They became a maũor local event and were very popular with tourists so re-imagining them for Salmon River Inn was a natural evoluƟon.

C.C. It must have been diĸcult to leave Memory Lane.

M.W. It was one of those biƩersweet decisions, I guess. But Ernst and I, we’d had our eye on Salmon River House for a while and when it came up for sale, well, it ũust seemed that the Ɵme was right. It’s such a beauƟful property and something in it called out to me each Ɵme we drove by on our way home to Clam Harbour.

C.C. And you became established as Salmon River Country Inn in 2013 … how are things going?

M.W. Well, it’s been a lot of work, of

course. nd we’ve certainly edžperienced growing pains but already so much enũoyment as well. This year it seems like we’ve turned the corner.

We’ve managed to iron out the glitches and seƩle into a groove that feels comfortable and is working for us.

C.C. I’m told you did a lot of renovating.

M.W. Kh my, yes͊ Ernst in parƟcular worked very hard on all the updates but the place feels renewed. ll the overnight rooms have their own heated ensuite bath now - something we felt was especially important for the comfort of our guests. Seemingly small things can be a big deal, maũor achievements. We have a licensed restaurant and Lounge. And there’s the licensed oceanside deck where we can also serve drinks only. I feel the

Eastern Shore has blossomed in the 21 years we’ve been here. So much going on now. The Clam Harbour Sand Castle &esƟval. Two golf courses - Harbour Ridge and River Kaks. BeauƟful beaches like MarƟniƋue where the surfers like to go. The East Petpeswick Yacht Club. Memory Lane. It’s amanjing, really.

C.C. Can we discuss the menu?

M.W. Yes, of course. It’s fairly modest, not large or fancy but we’ve tried to choose items that allow us to feature local ingredients. If we have to buy from a big store we choose organics.

Everything is prepared on-site from scratch and we have gluten and dairy free opƟons as well. We want our customers to have food for the soul as well as the stomach. Hence our slogan .. ‘ Feels good. Tastes good’. I think it says something about the tradiƟon of the original Salmon River House.

C.C. Good, honest food and hospitality ...

Interview by:

Ernst & Margit Wechsler ϵ02.ϴϴϵ.22ϯϯ SalmonRiverCountryInn.ca

Life.Work.Harmony.

Work-Life-Balance. A long word with a simple meaning: you work in order to live, not the other way round. A new phenomenon arose in the 21st century: numerous people try to help us living the perfect lifestyle, the foundation of everyone’s healthy Life-Work-Harmony. They make us believe that we need them to accomplish this sheer difficult task. But speaking honestly, is a perfect lifestyle really the answer to the question how to balance out job and life properly?

Tatsächlich tun wir uns beizeiten schwer damit, uns nicht von der Arbeit auffressen zu lassen. Hilfe, damit dieses nicht geschieht, liefert eine Vielzahl von Lebensratgebern mit sinnigen Titeln wie: „Entspannter leben“, „Ganz entspannt trotz Stress“ oder „Die Kraft der Pause“. Alleine die Titel laden schon dazu ein, den Autoren und Autorinnen ins Gesicht zu schreien, dass man nur eines kann: Entspannen oder deftig auf die Pauke hauen und leben, und dass Entspannung und Stress in einem Satz ein Paradoxon bilden, was den Autor oder die Autorin entspannt zur Weißglut treiben würde.

Anyway, after you’ve worked through a number of such guides you realise four facts they have all in common. You might consider them as the key to your very own LIFE.WORK:HARMONY, the four pillars of a supposedly perfect life-style.

1. Enough sleep, at least 8 hours a night 2. A balanced diet, preferable vegan, because every thing else is just toxic for your body 3. Getting engaged in sport activities, at least 3 hours per week 4. Make time for family and friends, no matter the consequences.

Reading through this list one thing becomes perfectly clear: it is our duty to maintain a healthy lifestyle by cooking, spending hours cutting vegetables and fruits, slaving ourselves in the gym while not forgetting our friends and family. Impossible, in fact. Perfection by definition is the way to a harmonic Life-Work-Harmony.

Derjenige, der beim Lesen diverser Ratgeber oder dieser Liste noch nicht begriffen hat, dass der Weg zu einem entspannten Leben eine Lebensaufgabe ist und 24 stündiger Aufmerksamkeit bedarf, wird spätestens im Selbstversuch feststellen müssen, dass, wenn man auch nur annähernd versucht alles zu befolgen, man am Ende des Tages noch gestresster ist als zuvor. Spätestens aber, wenn man im Meditationskurs wegen zu lauten Schnarchens aufgefallen ist und sich beim Yoga an einer Stelle eine Muskelzerrung zugezogen hat, wo man die Existenz eines Muskels am wenigstens vermutet hätte, fühlt sich jeder wie Sergeant Murtaugh und die Erkenntnis, dass man für so etwas nicht gemacht ist, erhält Einzug.

In times in which words like “self-optimising” and “self-improvement” grow in their meaning it seems like a crime to just slouch on your couch.

Channel-surfing is a taboo. Self-efficiency forces us to strenuous activities after work: extreme sport, extreme party and extreme healthy. Living your life as if there was no tomorrow in order to gain the perfect LIFE. WORK.HARMONY. Use your time effectively, don’t waste a second.

Time apart from your job is not for leisure. No, it is your second job, which you need to responsibly take care of.

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Der Antiratgeber Jeder, der regelmäßig Sport macht, weiß wie gut es tut, unser allseits geliebtes Haustier, den Schweinehund, zu überwinden, Wind und Wetter zu trotzen um sich mal richtig auszutoben. Aber genauso gut tut es, wenn man ab und an dieses possierliche Tierchen auf dem Sofa sitzend hinter den Ohren krault.

Indeed, there is no remedy for a busy day in your job, despite maybe, taking a breath and taking one step after another. But is it necessary to take this busy day home with you? Why don’t we slow down a bit? Do we really need to spend hours cooking and sweating only so we can consider our lifestyle a relaxed and healthy one? Is ‘a night in’ killing our WorkLife-Balance? To sum it up: is a perfect lifestyle our remedy to a LIFE. WORK.HARMONY? Taking the risk of destroying the market for all those ‘life guides’, I seriously doubt it. We are still human beings and realizing that as such we aren’t supposed to be perfect, helps to enjoy a lazy evening in front of the TV as much as a night out with our friends or at the gym. Pleasure should be the key to a harmonic balance between job and life and vice versa, not what is supposed to be healthy and efficient.

Hätte Mutter Natur von uns gewollt, dass wir jede Sekunde unseres Lebens aktiv gestalten und wir nur noch aus Muskeln und Sehnen bestehen, hätte sie niemals zugelassen, dass der Fernseher erfunden und die Kakaobohne entdeckt wird. Wir sollten alles etwas entspannter angehen. Uns nicht schämen, wenn wir mal etwas faul sind, aber auch nicht auf dem Sofa anwachsen, wenn draußen die Sonne scheint. Einfach alles etwas weniger ernst nehmen, allen voran die Lebensratgeber die ja genügend Zeit zu haben scheinen. Akzeptieren, dass nicht alles perfekt und effizient sein muss, um ein harmonisches Leben zu führen, lässt uns ganz von selbst entspannen.

Perfectly imperfect. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle and living consciously is okay, but you don’t need to exaggerate it. We are all human beings and we shouldn’t strive to be more. Realising that imperfection is no crime, but totally legal is enough to relax and create a balanced LIFE.WORK. HARMONY.

Simply a good cup of Coffee Method & Hands on Information: We use Organic whole coffee beans which are found at your local coffee shop or farmers market.

Grind whole coffee beans with your favourite device; we like vintage mills. We use a coffee measuring spoon and judge 2 spoons of beans per tall coffee cup.

We use a traditional and vintage 102 Melitta porcelain coffee Ƃlter, and they come in different si\es as do the paper Ƃlters.

Ground coffee is Ƃltered through with boiling hot water the old fashioned, hands on way.

We like to add natural sweeteners such as honey, maple syrup or organic sugar, and this, as well as the cream, milk or black version of enjoying a good cup of coffee is your choice!

info source: wikipedia

In 1908, Melitta Bentz, a 35-year-old housewife from Dresden, Germany, invented the first coffee filter, receiving a patent registration for her “Filter Top Device lined with Filter Paper” from the Patent Office in Berlin on July 8. She founded the company bearing her name the same year.

In the 1930s, Melitta revised the original filter, tapering it into the shape of a cone and adding ribs. This created a larger filtration area, allowing for improved extraction of the ground coffee. A few years later, cone-shaped filter paper that fit inside the tapered filter top was introduced.

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9 Õ½Ài Õ ` ÕLÌi` Þ }iÌÌ } > vii v À Ì Ã LÞ Ü] Ì i wÀi Ì i Li Þ° č Ü Þ ÕÀÃi v Ì Ü> `iÀ around the house like a gunslingiÀ° 9 ÕÀ Ì>À}iÌà >Ài Ãi > `À> à À LÕV i` y À }° Ãi ÃVÀiÜà }ià À `À «« } v>ÕViÌð >ÃÞ things to remedy and with big > ` Ì i V ` Ü `à L Ü° ̽à ÕÀ «>ÞL>V ° 9 Õ } Ì Li « i>Ã> Ì Þ Ã>« i à ÛiÀà v LiÀÃÕÀ«À Ãi` >Ì Ì i Ãi v V w`i Vi nation, unless we’re among the Ì Ã Ã ÀÌ v Ì } i }i `iÀð Ü v ÀÌÕ >Ìi Ü V Õ Ì Ì i Ãi Ûià you can be free in mind and conamong the migratory snowbirds science to engage in gentler purthat winter with our neighbours to ÃÕ Ìà i vii` } Ì i Ü `ÃÌ Ûi Ì i à ÕÌ ° v] Ì i Ì iÀ > `] or settling down with that terÌ i `>Þ >ÀÀ ÛiÃ] «À L>L Þ >Ìi À wV Ûi Þ Õ V> ½Ì Ãii Ì }iÌ winter, when you suddenly come i Õ} v° 7 >̽à Ài] Þ Õ½Ài Ì V ÃV Õà iÃÃ Ì w ` Þ ÕÀÃi v now physically and psychologically standing in the hallway as if wakprepared to tackle the bigger } vÀ > `Ài> ° č ` Ì Þ ` items once the snow retreats and Þ Õ >Ûi V i>À ÀiV iVÌ v Ì }à Ü>À Õ« ÕÌà `i° how you came to be there but you w ` Þ Õ½Ài V ÕÌV } Þ ÕÀ > ` As soon as weather permits you Ì i Ûi Þ Õ Ì L Ì ÃVÀiÜ`À ÛiÀ want to know how your home has Ì i `à }>Ûi Þ Õ v À À ÃÌ >Ã] fared through what are among then seize the moment and emthe harshest and radically changebrace your subconscious desire >L i Ü ÌiÀ V ` Ì Ã ÀÌ Ì LiV i > > `Þ > ° č Û>À i` č iÀ V>° / i LÕ v ÕÀ iý > ` ÌiÀiÃÌ } Ü À ` >Ü> Ìð Ìà maintenance requirements aren’t Û> Õi ÕÌÜi } à > L Ý v Ãi v À V iÌ ÃV i Vi° / iÞ v> Õ `iÀ Ì i i « L à > ` Þ Õ >Þ w ` Þ ÕÀ i>` } v ëiVÌ Ã > ` iÛi spouse eyeing you with renewed > Þ v Ì i wÝià >Ài Üi Ü Ì ÌiÀiÃÌ Li i>Ì ÜiÀi` `ð the capabilities of anyone with the

will to learn and a mild sense of adventure. What follows is a basic home maintenance checklist that will enable you to monitor the most important of your home’s facets and requirements. At the same time it will help you devise a schedule to address any needs.

You will have several months of our glorious Maritime summer and fall to get things done. Spreading it out over time lends an appealing sense of, if not exactly leisure, then at least a lack of urgency. It also allows time to book any necessary tradespeople for work you } Ì Ì vii µÕ> wi` Õ `iÀÌ> ing.

Check attic for signs of water incursion, mold or animal infestation. Check basement foundation for same issues or obvious cracks and if you have a sump make sure it’s working well. Insure all smoke, CO detectors and extinguishers are in good order. Change batter ià v iViÃÃ>ÀÞ° i> wÀi« >Vi] wood stove or pellet stove and V iÞ° i> > w ÌiÀÃ] Ûi ÌÃ] bath fan grills and cook stove Ûi Ì° ÕÀ >Vi w ÌiÀÃ Ã Õ ` Li changed or cleaned monthly during the heating season; HVAC w ÌiÀà iÛiÀÞ Ó Ì Ã° ÀÞiÀ ducts and vents cleaned yearly ­> Ì >Ì >VVÕ Õ >Ìi` Ì µÕ> wià as tinder and dryers can generate enough heat to bring it to combustion). Vacuum dust from baseboard heaters. You’ll probably discover a treasure trove of pens, dog kibble and lost poems along with the dust. Shut down > ` `À> vÕÀ >Vi Õ ` wiÀ° / à is also a good time to schedule a heating inspection and tune up LÞ > ÌiV V > ° / iÃi «À viÃà als will appreciate your call in the spring or summer rather than the fall when everyone wants it done ÞiÃÌiÀ`>Þ° /iÃÌ Üi Ü>ÌiÀ v Þ Õ½Ài not tied to the municipal system.

Check siding and paint for cracks, damage and deterioration (auto

L `Þ w iÀ à > }Ài>Ì Ài«> À v À wood siding) and incursion by or other creepy crawlies. Inspect caulking around doors and windows and remove and redo as needed. Replace window screens (the ones you cleaned before being stored last year). Hot water heater; a vital maintenance that is often overlooked. Carefully test the hot water pressure relief valve to ensure it’s working correctly. / i V Ãi Ì i ÃÕ«« Þ Û> Ûi] >Ìtach a hose to the drain valve at the base of the tank and drain the Ì> V « iÌi Þ° / à Ài Ûià minerals from the tank which can à ÀÌi Ìà vi à } wV> Ì Þ° "«i Ì i ÃÕ«« Þ Û> Ûi > ` Àiw Ì i tank. Open outdoor faucets and ensure they’re working properly.

Inspect your electrical service entrance for secure attachment to the house and signs of water incursion Check outside of foundation and siding for plants or their roots which can cause damage or encourage wildlife. Level any steps that have shifted. Check and lubricate all window and door mechanisms and hinges. Inspect functioning and water in the traps.

Lubricate garage door tracks and rollers and check chain tension. Þ Ü Þ Õ½Ài «À L>L Þ yÕà with success and newfound self V w`i Vi° / i v À Ì i L } >huna (gutters, fascia and roof). If you saw signs of water damage in the attic you will be barely able to contain your eagerness to tackle this one. It’s the big kahuna for a reason. It will require a ladder, a degree of fearlessness and, most « ÀÌ> Ì] č1/ " t > i ÃÕÀi the ladder is lashed and stabilized (a stand-off prevents damage to gutters). Consider wearing gloves and goggles. A clean running gutter system will add years to your v>ÃV > > ` à vwÌ >à Üi >à à ` }° / iÀi >Ài > Û>À iÌÞ v }>`}iÌà >`i ëiV wV> Þ v À }ÕÌÌiÀ V i> ing including a remote gutter

robot if you’re inclined to that sort of technological whiz. On the other hand, if you’re more of a luddite like me a simple garden trowel and hose will do. Remember to direct the spray into the downspouts while you’re at it. If they’re really plugged you may have to employ an auger. Leaf strainers over the spouts are a good idea which would lead one to believe gutter covers would be the cat’s meow but a word of caution. You’ll still have to clean the gutters every two years or so and the covers will complicate the process and/or increase the cost.

If you’re still undaunted climb aboard the roof. Inspect your à } ià > ` > Þ y>à } `iÌ> à around stacks, skylights or chimneys as well as the chimney cap. If shingles are brittle and curling they’re due for replacement. / >Ì½Ã Ì > ÕÌà i ° čà «ÀiÛ ously stated, most of it involves ÕÃÌ Ã«iVÌ Ã° / i ÌÀ V Ã Ì tackle things early, as soon as Üi>Ì iÀ «iÀ Ìð / Ã Ü vÀii Õ« the rest of the summer for recreational activities, gardening and so on while allowing you time to line up professionals for any large or complicated repair work. With persistence and the refusal to be daunted we discover familiarity > ` V w`i Vi Õ Ì Ì i ÜÀ ÌÌi list we began with becomes unnecessary.

The return you’ll garner in peace of mind and longevity of your home is immeasurable.

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A Roof of

One’s Own The winter of 2015 seemed late arriving but made up for its tardiness with a wealth of snow days enough that I was encouraged to work from my home of¿ce alongside the comfort of the wood stove. Just to add polish to that silver lining it also afforded me the luxury of time to pore over my collection of old and older magazines.

Imagine my delight at rediscovering a 1963 issue of The Ladies Home Journal (copy price a whopping 35 cents!). The magazine was a monthly until April of 2014 when Meredith Publishing announced it would be “transitioning The Ladies Home Journal to a special interest publication” which would be available quarterly on news stands. My 1963 copy featured a cover picture of the beautiful Romy Schneider and an article by Anne Chamberlain entitled ‘THE FABULOUS COCO CHANEL’.

The magazine was oddly dimensioned by today’s standards (13.5 x 10.5 inches) and as I held it in hand I couldn’t escape a sense of the surreal in the awareness of its impact within the context of my own life at the time and the fact that the iconic designer was still alive then. Is it simple coincidence that her birthdate ( August 19th 1883) is the same year the inaugural issue of The Ladies Home Journal hit the news stands?

In the article Ms. Chanel states: “ Fashion fades, only style remains the same.”

Coco Chanel was 80 at the time of the interview.

She passed away 8 years later on January 10th 1971 but the essential truth of her statement is as relevant now as then and applicable as much to the way we search for that ‘perfect home’ as to trends in fashion and accessories.

In my vintage 1963 copy is another article, this one by Phyllis McGinley entitled ‘A Roof of One’s Own’. In it she details her own experience as a’pilgrim’ in the home buying process from 30 years past and her very unique take on its similarities to that of the modern day ‘buyer’, or, in the industry lingo of today, the ‘potential purchaser.’

Perhaps that term does our buying clientele a disservice. Perhaps ‘pilgrim’ is the more appropriate designation, especially now in this time of re-grouping and re-¿guring, inferring as it does the perception of a voyager, of someone searching.

So let me offer you a pair of ‘magic reading glasses’. They will take you back in time to enjoy with me this wonderful article by Phyllis McGinley.

What has changed in nearly 100 years in that subtle dance between our logic and our emotions that enable our decisions concerning the home we will buy?

Essentially nothing, I think. The fashion has changed but the basic style remains the same.

We strive to balance our needs and desires against that which is within our ¿nancial reach.

We fall in love with a house and we make of it a home. Eventually we may ‘pilgrim on’ to the next.

Ͳ DĂƌƟŶĂ ZŽďŝŶƐŽŶ

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Source: Wikipedia Phyllis McGinley (March 21, 1905 – February 22, 1978) was a Pulitzer Prize (1961) winning American author of children’s books and poetry. Her poetry was in the style of light verse, specializing in humor, satiric tone and the positive aspects of suburban life.

Buying a house has much in common with getting married. Propinquity, kindness and availability enter into the matter. But what matters most is to lose one’s heart.

It is perfectly possible to be a housewife without owning a house.

Some of the most romantically domestic women I know have lived out their lives in rented apartments where heat came delivered by courtesy of City Steam and gossip got carried around by doormen with the morning mail. Female creatures are born nesters. Give them anything walled and covered over from the weather - a cabin, a tent, a trailer, even what passes for a dormitory room in really distinguished women’s colleges - and most of them will manage to turn it into a home. They will decorate the walls, invent a rug or a table, plant something green in a pot, and settle there snug as mice in their burrows.

Still, the desire for a personal roof, however mortgaged, is natural to all mankind. It is more than desire, it is instinct. The human race has always felt safest inside private walls or standing on a bit of owned earth. Only a rare and incorrigibly urban heart never stirs with immemorial longings, has never urged its owner to arise and go now to some local Isle of Innisfree, there to plant nine bean rows, keep a bee, and put up summer screens. So in this af luent day most American families will at some period in their lives go house hunting.

In this green and lowery county where I live, I watch them come like swallows every season, pilgrims in search of a domestic Grail.

They come in all shapes, sizes, conditions and degrees of prosperity. Some are veterans of the chase already, either families on their way up in the world, who have outgrown modest acquisitions and hope for something more elaborate, or else the middle-aged whose houses have outgrown them. Some are strangers, transfers from other cities to this

vast suburban area, bewildered by our fashions and our prices. A few are old residents, restless for a change of streets. The majority, though, are untried novices, young couples with a child or two or three and very little notion of the hazards of property-owning. They have saved a bit of money, have been elated by a promotion or a bonus. A genuine nest seems within their expanding reach. It is those latter innocents whom I long to warn against searching too optimistically and with too dogmatic a hope.

It is not that they have been , in the main, badly briefed. Most of them have met with lawyers, talked things over with bankers, con ided in real-estate brokers, even consulted their own relatives. Still, they are innocents, for I know the image each carries in the mind’s eye.

What they are looking for is a Perfect House.

I can describe that image. It will be a neat, new, sound and enduring residence, miraculously mingling the appeal of period architecture with the convenience of contemporary. It will be small enough to take care of without help but commodious enough to shelter a growing family. There will be a garden and a lawn guiltless of crabgrass; but the grounds will require nothing more to keep them immaculate than a weekly mowing. Inside, the kitchen will be modern to the last shelf and counter, the living room admirably sunny and spacious. There will be bedrooms enough for now and for the future, a nice new furnace, a suf iciency of baths, closets, electric outlets. The upkeep will be minute, the neighborhood good. And it must be cheap, a Bargain.

Death and taxes are no more certain than disillusion for them. It will begin on the irst morning of the search and continue to the inal day when they ind themselves in possession of a deed for something as unlike that original mental sketch as many a ilm star differs from her press photographs. For there is no such thing as a perfect house. (What one thinks of as perfection is merely what other people are living in.) On the market they will ind all sorts of dwelling places pleasant to inhabit - gracious houses, convenient houses, beautiful houses, houses suitable, impressive, appealing, economical, unusual or a Good

Investment. But perfection is as rare in a building as in a person, a poem or a marriage. Even if those pilgrims had time and money enough to choose an acre or so of land, hire an architect, engage a contractor, and try to lesh out their private vision, something would go astray. Closets would turn out to be too many or too few, the basement stairs too steep, the bathrooms’ tiles objectionable. No doubt, King Louis complained of Versailles after it was completed and Blenheim didn’t quite suit the Duke of Marlborough. In every human project there is bound to be a human law. After all, the most nearly perfect edi ice in the world is the Taj Mahal, and that is not a house but a tomb.

So their choice will be a compromise.

The odd thing is, though, that they will settle there in most cases contentedly, sometimes with rapture. For what they will have found out is that they didn’t need perfection, only a house which was right for them. Buying a house is like getting married. The youthful dream of the Ideal withers and is forgotten.

Propinquity, kindness, availability are the things which count. And then, of course, the important matter is to lose one’s heart.

I know, because I, too, have been a pilgrim. Our family search was more whimsical than I would advise for others, begun on impulse and with rash lightheartedness. For May was nudging us, or at least it was nudging me.

The grimy ailanthus tree outside the window of our New York apartment kept reminding me how nice it would be to see two trees or even a whole row of them. My husband who dislikes changes plumped for the status quo. “Who wants to commute?” he said. “Time enough to leave town when we have children”.

Even when a certain queasiness before breakfast on my part suggested that the offspring in question might soon cease to be an academic problem, he continued to insist that a larger apartment was all we needed. Accident, seconded by nostalgia, changed his mind. While looking for that extra room in the city, one which would be within our small means, we came across an oddity. It was a tiny private house in Manhatten. It had loors and exactly rooms, one to a story. We thought it reasonable, chic and amusing. We also knew it wouldn’t do.

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Who could isolate an infant on a loor or bring a pram up three lights? Still, my husband tramped down from an inspection of the premises and announced, just as if it had been his idea all along, “let’s go to the suburbs. I want a place where I can walk up and down stairs again.” The next day we took a train to West Chester County, enrolled ourselves under the banner of the irst dealer we encountered, and began to learn the hard facts of home-buying life. Of course we knew what we wanted - exactly what I have outlined as the dream of every novice purchaser. But we discovered almost at once that with a bank account practically non existent and an income which would stretch no better than wartime elastic, that neat, small, new, sound and enduring residence was out of the question for us. The operative word is “small.” There is and always has been a correlation between size and price. The bigger the house the less proportionately you will have to pay for your purchase. When we were on safari in the late 0’s, the depression lay like a London Fog over the whole nation.

But even in that era the tiny small house with low taxes and easy maintenance had lost little value. It had kept its owners solvent; they did not need to give it up for the lack of income. This village where we inally settled was dotted then with huge, handsome, deserted estates going for a song; for less than a song, a whistle. I remember one in particular, a true mansion with tennis courts and a swimming pool which sold for ,000, about the amount of its annual taxes.

Who could keep it up? Only the rich could afford to.

There was nothing, it seemed for us.

So what did we do at the end of our irst season of search? Something, considering our natures, astoundingly practical.

After being irst swept along by a tide of hope, then nearly drowned by waves of disappointment, we decided to tread water. In an amiable and elm-shaded village we found a house for rent. We leased it, giving ourselves a chance to test our needs, our capabilities and deserts. We took it chie ly because the rent amounted monthly to about what it would take now to get a car washed.

Looking back on it, we realized it was a terrible house. It had the necessary stairs, three or four lights of them, 28.

impressive and battered. It also had 12 rooms, only two baths (one of them dating back, I think, to the invention of plumbing), and a river in the basement when it rained. There were silver knobs on the sagging, genuine mahogany doors, but the kitchen was twice my age and not so well preserved. I’ll say for the house, it was well ventilated. You seldom had to open a window, since air blew in unsolicited around every door and casement. Still, we had a ine, gay time there for a year, borrowing furniture from all our friends and relatives to ill it, inviting whole parties of contemporaries out to enjoy the mosquitoed country air, promising ourselves that the sensible little house we yearned for would turn up any day. And one thing we had accomplished without knowing it We had found our locale. This village, where we had lighted by random good luck, was where we wanted to stay, with its venerable trees, agreeable neighbors, and stretch of sand beside Long Island Sound for swimming from. (Environment, for a pilgrim, is as important as the choice of house itself.) With our irst daughter born and safe in her playpen, we began again to spend weekends tagging after shepherding real-estate dealers.

This time we were better equipped. Our hopes were less high, our savings had grown, we were prepared to purchase with sweet reasonableness. And then happened to us what must happen to all searchers if they are to be content with their lot, not to speak of their house. We fell in love.

On paper the match was not at all suitable. The house was too old, too large, too inconvenient to it our plans. The well instructed broker hadn’t even bothered to show it to us, since it it none of our speci ications. But on Sunday, on an April stroll, we passed it, peered over its high private hedge into a spring garden, and kept coming back almost unwillingly to look at it again like the reluctant lovers we were. Since it was unoccupied, we even found an unlatched door and feloniously entered, to wander over its three loors and 10 rooms, wistfully wishing it were a little newer, that the kitchen weren’t quite so gaunt, that two of the three bathtubs were not standing implacably on turn-of-the-century Chippendale feet. It has so many other features which enchanted us - the nearly

half acre of grounds, the eccentric charm of its old fashioned rooms, its hale if elderly foundation, which passed my husband’s inevitable test for good construction when he jumped up and down on the loors neither they nor the walls wavered a hair’s breadth. Inquiring about taxes, we found them modest, and we had already learned the asking price was low - for good and suf icient reason. Nobody except us wanted it. The place had stood empty for more than a year, while pilgrims streamed through it, turning away in dismay from four ireplaces, four lights of stairs, and an interior painted throughout a dismal, forbidding green. It nearly dismayed even us. But we had been delighted by its outward aspect and were encouraged to see through inner gloom to pleasing proportions and ine quality. Out of date or not, over-sized or not, the place had charm. And charm in a dwelling is like charm in a woman. It is a mysterious essence compounded of warmth, character and a welcoming countenance.

“It’s a sort of bloom...” says Barrie’s Maggie in What Every Woman Knows. “If you have it, you don’t need to have anything else; if you don’t have it, it doesn’t matter what else you have.”

Investment dealers might scream at such limsy reasoning for making a purchase. Other people might sensibly say charm can’t keep rain from penetrating shingles or make up for a non functioning furnace. We agreed and agree, but think also that neither will excellent plumbing and push-button doors make up for a trite or graceless architecture.

The right house, no matter what its period, must pluck your sleeve and say, Take me. We were meant for each other.’ Which brings me at length to the heat of my argument. The house was meant for us; not for our friends or relatives.

Indeed, my brother, visiting us here (for of course we bought it - nothing, could have stopped us except bankruptcy), grumbled after he had returned to his brisk new ranch house in California, “I can’t think what those kids mean, rattling around in a rambling old relic.” But we were happy as meadowlarks. We had married for love.

Once the honeymoon was over - that is, the delirious irst few weeks when we were joyful for mere ownership - there

came a natural letdown. Young homeowners must be warned. The six months after moving into a house are likely to be a trail of fortitude. You ind laws. Taps don’t run, the heating system baf les you, furniture doesn’t it, windows rattle, tiles truculently dislodge themselves. You’d willingly sell back your property to the irst honest bidder. But that phase doesn’t last either, for you and your house became friends as well as lovers. Again, it is like marriage. To ensure success, affection and respect must be present. You must accept your choice for better or for worse, trusting that in the dear one an accumulation of virtues will outweigh the accumulation of faults.

Both virtues and faults we found. The house at once enchanted and exasperated us. The windows were too large and too many, making furniture arrangements a puzzle and adding to bills for storm sash and weather stripping.

All that glittered was not copper. There were insuf icient shelves for our books, cupboards for our dishes. We were forced to buy a new boiler. But then, we consoled each other, every marriage is costly at the outset. And on the plus side we discovered how accommodating was this aging structure, how impervious to heat and cold. it was solid, generous, full of light, adaptable to change.

Gradually, and as we could afford it or had time for do-it-yourself projects, we took advantage of this lexibility. We shelved a library, painted everything bright and blithe, put in necessary kitchen counters, made a dinette out of the dark, butlerless butler’s pantry. We tightened things and insulated things and made ourselves so proof against storm that we now heat all three loors for less than 00 a year, in spite of the fact I am one of those people who reach for a sweater even on summer evenings and keep the thermostat at a sybaritic 75 degrees day and night in winter. But for all our bits and pieces of change, we let it stay what it was a stout, unpretentious late-Victorian country dwelling, made of good materials with workmanlike care.

In other words, we came to terms with our house; like cautious partners in a marriage, we improved but did not try to reform. For you can enlarge and adorn and coax along the singular object

of your choice, but you cannot alter essential nature. Don’t buy - and don’t marry - unless you are willing to put up with the qualities which attracted you in the irst place. This clapboarded shelter of ours will never be smart, but it is steadfast. It has housed us happily for 25 years. It pleases us still. And its value today is a good deal more than when we acquired it. To inish off the matrimonial igure of speech, you get back what you put into a partnership.

I repeat, our selection would not now be, nor would ever have been, right for all. There are people to whom contemporary design and pristine plaster are necessities. They will sacri ice a dining room for the sake of a built-in kitchen barbecue, prefer 220 wiring to a deep foundation. And since it is they who must live with and inside their own four walls, their choice is proper.

At the risk of special pleading, though, I would like to urge the young in search of the few bargains left in the world, to consider the case of the dowdy, elderly house. (Of course, “elderly” is a relative term. In our area it refers to anything built a half century ago. Only when it has survived the Revolution do we concede it is old. Yet I know a couple settling in Arizona, who wrote their parents they were thinking of buying “a very old house, one built nine years ago.”)

Not only is something constructed before 1921 inclined to be sold at a modest igure, it is also likely to be low in taxes, since taxes are assessed by age and purchase price. And to someone with an eye for the solid and enduring, this period has satisfactions.

What splendid beams carpenters put into buildings then What deep, dry basements, commodious attics, sunny bedrooms, hospitable porches (I could write a whole elegy on the passing of the front porch, that comfortable, functional, neighborly appendage, so much useful in most American climates than a patio or a terrace. Someday, I piously hope, it may return.) They trimmed ceilings and lintels then. They recessed their windows, if not their radiators.

They made un-warpable doors out of huge slabs of wood. And generously they planned rooms for children, servants, guests and in-laws. In such a house the population can explode all it pleases. There are closets and pantries.

There is privacy. And having stood stalwartly for several generations, without crumbling or settling, it will probably last as long again, losing no value as the years pass.

A surprisingly large group of young pilgrims are discovering the advantage of such houses for themselves now and are deserting the subdivisions and the modish split-levels for an area such as ours. We run to large families here, four seeming a meager endowment, and the generation of nest builders is coming across big, undistinguished places for no more than they would pay elsewhere for a two-bedroom, freshly run-up bungalow. Those philoprogenitive couples are not intimidated by stairs, lavatories less than modern, an absence of air conditioning and wall ovens. They realize they can repair a roof for less than the cost of expanding an attic. They can build their own terraces and improve their kitchens. Embellishments will come with time.

They appear also to know by ear what we did not learn until we had been in residence more than a dozen years that no house in which adolescents live is ever too large. Buckingham Palace might well seem crowded while a family is growing up. There will seldom anywhere be beds enough or bathrooms enough or telephones for the gregarious teens; rarely a place for parents to hide from the sound of records, radios, hair dryers and high-keyed conversation.

Our newcomers understand this and have chosen space over fashion. Their visions of perfection do not die, but are merely put away in the mothballs of the mind. Everybody, no matter how happily sheltered, has a dream house which diverts idle hours and keep him casually in perpetual search. I have one of my own.

Since I have spent a quarter of a century or more planning it, my dream is quite distinct. I know it is Georgian, new and made of brick. I am sure it has a view of water, presumably the Atlantic Ocean. The rooms are few but highceilinged and spacious, and all of them cluster on one loor. there is a paneled library for those hundreds of books we will keep buying, a splendid linen closet, such as I have never owned, and place for my husband’s enormous piano, now overpowering the living room.

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Standing out amongst the Competition

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The sale and marketing of residential real estate began as an involved but fairly straightforward business. Modern real estate sales is anything but straightforward, with complex agreements of purchase and sale, numerous and often intricate issues to be taken into account and buyers who are both more sophisticated and more demanding than ever before.

The modern home buyer tends to be very savvy. The good old days of browsing the newspaper for available properties or cruising through neighbourhoods looking to spot For Sale signs are pretty much a thing of the past. Not that buyers won’t decide to drive around a potential neighbourhood but it’s more likely to occur later in the buying process.

Today’s buyer has 24 hour access to the Internet. They can browse for homes while still in their pyjamas or from their smart phones while riding the bus to work or waiting in the check-out line.

The entire available inventory is literally at their fingertips.

They can afford to be and usually are, very picky. If a property fails to make that all important first impression, with a click they’ve already moved on to the next choice.

Additionally, buyers are probably familiar with one or more of the host of renovation and decorating shows available on HGTV. They’ve been inundated with images of beautiful homes which has only served to raise the bar with regard to their expectations.

For a seller this means your home has to show well. In fact, it should wow potential buyers enough to make them literally anxious to see it for fear it may be snatched from under their very noses. If this sounds like exaggeration consider the advice of Barb Corcoran, real estate tycoon and Shark on ABC’s hit reality show ‘Shark Tank’ : “ Home staging used to be optional. Today it’s a necessity in selling a house.”

So, what exactly does home staging involve? What does a home stager do? Is it simply a matter of de-cluttering and cleaning to make your house presentable? Well, not quite. Having your home show beautifully involves much more. Remember that all important wow factor?

The first step is a home staging consult. As the owner of ‘Staged For Upsell’, Joanna Lane begins by spending a couple of hours in her client’s home going from room to room and offering suggestions to help make the home present in the best possible way. She encourages the client to keep an open mind and never lose sight of the fact that buyers are picky and fickle.

The first consideration may be any obvious minor repairs that should be dealt with before listing. At the same time Joanna does emphasize de-cluttering and depersonalizing your home.

It’s crucial that buyers are able to imagine themselves, rather than you, living in your home. De-cluttering is easy at first blush but Joanna says it’s something many sellers struggle with.

“They’ve probably lived in their home for some time and it’s simply human nature that we tend not to notice that which is very familiar to us. The home stager affords a fresh pair of eyes.

I always emphasize to my clients that less is more,” says Joanna, “and this couldn’t be more relevant than when selling your house.”

Furniture placement is another area where home owners often have difficulty. Too much or poorly placed furniture can impede traffic flow and impair the functionality of a room. For example, in a living room you want just enough pieces to create a cozy conversation area. Too much furniture will only serve to make the room feel smaller.

“As a stager,” says Joanna, “ my objective is to always try to work with what my client has and bring out the best in it. That being said, there may still come a point when, after removing excess furniture, we may still have to further remove any outdated or otherwise inappropriate furniture and install rented pieces in its place.”

“Good staging involves creating a kind of minimalist space with some finishing touches for a beautiful, polished look that leaves room for the buyer’s own imagination to go to work. No matter the style of home or how grand or humble it may be, a professional home staging can perform wonders.”

Competition for home sales is always keen and it’s important to stand out from your competition. More and more professional realtors are choosing to work directly with a home stager to help in marketing their property listings for sale. Your realtor and home stager are your most valuable assets in preparing your home for a successful sale.

For tips and a complete overview of preparing your home for the market visit Joanna’s website at www.StagedforUpsell.com or download her e-book, ‘The Smarter Way to Sell Your House.’

Joanna Lane

902.830.3170 Joanna@StagedForUpsell.com StagedForUpsell.com

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“ If people like you, they’ll listen to you,

but if they trust you,

they’ll do business with you.

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- Zig Ziglar

Wir sind Ihre Makler in Hamburg und Halifax, weil dadurch gute Aussichten so nahe liegen.

Kunden, die den Kauf oder Verkauf ihrer Immobilie vertrauensvoll in unsere Hände legen, geht es in aller Regel nicht nur um materielle, sondern auch um emotionale Werte. Diesen hieraus an uns gestellten Ansprüchen werden wir mit einem Höchstmaß an Kompetenz, Engagement, Diskretion, Sicherheit und Ehrlichkeit gerecht.

Beratung, so individuell wie Sie: Bei Kanada‘s erstem deutschen Immobilienmakler, lizenziert in Nova Scotia. Ob Kanada als Urlaubsziel oder neue Wahlheimat, beim Immobilienkauf oder -verkauf ermitteln wir mit Ihnen gemeinsam Ihre persönlichen Wünsche und Bedürfnisse. Wir beraten und begleiten Sie vom ersten Schritt an. www.RobinsonHarmsen.com Martina Robinson * und Frank Harmsen ** M.Robinson@RobinsonHarmsen.com F.Harmsen@RobinsonHarmsen.com * Licensed to trade in Real Estate in Nova Scotian and in Germany ** Licensed to trade in Real Estate in Germany

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Ich bin Ihr Nova Scotia Makler, weil ich Ihnen beim Umsteigen helfen will.

Mein „Revier“ ist die Südküste von Nova Scotia mit ihrer Vielzahl von Seen, der Atlantikküste mit ihren Stränden und der vorgelagerten Inselwelt. Dazu gehören auch die hübschen Städtchen Chester, Mahone Bay und Lunenburg (UNESCO-Weltkulturerbe) mit ihren Häfen.

Auch ich bin vor fast 20 Jahren von Deutschland nach Kanada „umgestiegen“ und lebe nun als lizenzierte Immobilienmaklerin in Nova Scotia. Der ganz andere Lebensstil wird auch Sie neue, ungeahnte Seiten entdecken lassen.

Als Maklerin kann ich sehr gut auf die unterschiedlichen Vorstellungen meiner Kunden eingehen und Ihnen dabei helfen, ihre Traumwww.RobinsonHarmsen.com Anke Holm Licensed Real Estate Professional A.Holm@RobinsonHarmsen.com

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HELLO from Yarmouth!

I am your Licensed Real Estate Associate of Trust.

On the Shores of Nova Scotia there are many Treasures to be found!

Finding your dream cottage, home, business or land lot is a mission I am pleased to take on.

Together we will make it as easy as 1.2.3.!

A native of Digby, I grew up on the beautiful shores of Yarmouth County.

During my husband`s career in the Canadian Armed Forces, we have transferred many times and we have recently settled in Yarmouth, again!

I have owned and operated my own Business in the Food and Hospitality Industry and have solid work experience in Residential Property Management. I feel you can entrust me with all your real estate needs and very much look forward to serving you. www.RobinsonHarmsen.com Nova Rochford Licensed Real Estate Associate N.Rochford@RobinsonHarmsen.com

Ich bin Ihr Makler, weil manchmal das Kleinste das Größte ist.

Die Yarmouth und Digby County Gegend ist mein Arbeitsplatz hier in Nova Scotia!

Ich bin Globetrotter, mein Geburtsort ist Prag, meine Wahlheimat ist die Schweiz und Nova Scotia meine Naturoase – der perfekte Platz weit weg vom Stress der Welt. Nutzen Sie meine Erfahrungen, um Ihren Traum einer Ferienimmobilie zu verwirklichen. Ich achte für Sie auf jedes erdenkliche Detail. Besuchen Sie mich ganz entspannt unter: www.RobinsonHarmsen.com Eva Stara Krebser Licensed Real Estate Professional E.Stara@RobinsonHarmsen.com

“Die Wahlheimat ist die schönste Heimat.”

Herzlich Willkommen in meinem Büro! Es ist 55,283 Quadratkilometer groß, und egal, wo ich gerade bin, es ist nie weit bis zum Meer.

Nova Scotia!

Die kleine, schöne, entspannte Provinz Kanadas ist für viele jetzt schon Heimat oder Sommerfrische, doch es gibt immer noch eine Menge Platz für neue Menschen und Ideen!

Von Europa aus nur einen Katzensprung über den Atlantik, haben wir hier Land, Möglichkeiten, Freiheit …!

1. Ein Haus am Meer?

2. Eine Hütte im eigenen Wald?

3. Eine Farm mit See, von der man auch leben kann?

Nichts ist undenkbar und was man sich vorstellen kann, kann man auch umsetzen. Ich kenne mich bestens aus in meiner Wahlheimat, mit den Marktwerten von Land- und Hausimmobilien, sowie mit den vielen wichtigen Kleinigkeiten drumherum.

Der erste Schritt? Tippen Sie: www.RobinsonHarmsen.com Susanne Schwalbach Licensed Real Estate Professional S.Schwalbach@RobinsonHarmsen.com

Hamburg calling!

Ich bin Ihr Ansprechparter hinter den Kulissen.

Balance ist wichtig für und in einem internationalen Maklerbüro. Ich halte diese Balance in Hamburg für und mit dem RobinsonHarmsen Team.

Sie suchen nach Ihrer persönlichen Freiheits-Balance – da haben Sie bei uns richtig gewählt: „Hamburg Office, was kann ich für Sie tun?“ @ your service: www.RobinsonHarmsen.com Balko Schmidt B.Schmidt@RobinsonHarmsen.com

Ich bin Maklerin in Norddeutschland, weil ich Sie an die Luft setzen möchte.

Dieses wunderschöne Reetdachanwesen mit einer exquisiten Ausstattung in allerbestem Zustand liegt in unmittelbarer Nähe zu Lüneburg und unweit von Hamburg.

Als gelernte Kauffrau in der Grundstücks- und Wohnungswirtschaft bin ich seit 17 Jahren mit Bürositzen in Hamburg und Schwerin in der Immobilienwirtschaft tätig. Als leidenschaftliche Pferdesportlerin liegt es da nur nahe, dass mir die Vermittlung von Pferde- und Landimmobilien in Norddeutschland besonders am Herzen liegt – denn da kenne ich mich bestens für Sie aus. Ich freue mich auf Ihren Besuch. www.Nicola-Schaper-Immobilien.de Nicola Schaper

Ich bin Maklerin in Baden-Württemberg und Ihr Kanada-Partner, weil Vielseitigkeit meine Richtung ist.

Dieses Anwesen befindet sich im Rheinstettener Gewerbegebiet unweit von Karlsruhe.

Es verfügt über eine solide und hochwertige Ausstattung.

Perfekt für „Leben und Arbeiten“.

Leben und Arbeiten in Deutschland und Kanada. Das ist mein großes Glück von dem Sie profitieren. Sie wünschen sich ein neues Zuhause, ein Feriendomizil, ein Lifestyle-Business oder ein Grundstück am See, um Ihre Träume zu verwirklichen? Wir helfen Ihnen bei Ihrer Entscheidung mit viel Kompetenz und Erfahrung.

Mehr zu Ihrem ganz persönlichen Seitenwechsel erfahren Sie unter: www.RihmPartner.de Inge Rihm

Wir öffnen Ihnen die Türe ins Herz der Schweiz

Die SWISSDOMIZIL GmbH ist ein innovatives Schweizer Maklernetzwerk mit einem visionären Management.

Die Dienstleistungen sind in verschiedene Geschäftsfelder gegliedert: * Immobilienvermittlung * Relocationservice * Finanzdienstleistungen

Wir verstehen uns als Unternehmer der Zukunft und stellen unsere Kunden und unsere Mitarbeiter in das Zentrum partnerschaftlichen Denkens und Handelns.

Unser Ziel ist der Erfolg.

Erfolg für Sie als unseren Kunden, Erfolg für unsere Arbeit, Erfolg für unser Team.

Erfolg messen wir aber nicht nur in Zahlen, sondern auch in Gefühlen, Anerkennung, Freude und vielfältige zwischenmenschliche Kontakte.

Damit Ihr Leben einfacher und Sie selber mehr Zeit für die wichtigen Dinge des Lebens haben, investieren wir Zeit, Herz und Know-how in Sie!

Marco & Barbara Zgraggen-Zeller www.SwissDomizil.com

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„Bern ich mag dich gern - ob Hauptstadt, Berge oder Seen“ Herzlich willkommen in der Schweiz!

Die SWISSDOMIZIL GmbH ist ein innovatives Schweizer Maklernetzwerk mit einem visionären Management.

Die Dienstleistungen sind in verschiedene Geschäftsfelder gegliedert: * Immobilienverkauf * Relocationservice * Finanzdienstleistungen

Als Unternehmer und selbständiger Partner von Swissdomizil ist es meine Berufung, Sie als Kunden zu jeder Zeit ins Zentrum meines Handelns zu stellen und meine Aufmerksamkeit voll und ganz den individuellen und exklusiven Bedürfnissen, dem Wunsch Ihrer Traum - Immobilie, zu widmen. „Unser Zeichen schafft Vertrauen“ Daniel Binggeli www.SwissDomizil.com

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Ich bin Makler in Tirol, Österreich, weil ich Ihnen die Berge näher bringe.

Dieses wunderschöne Landhaus im Tiroler Stil liegt unweit der Landeshauptstadt Innsbruck im Grünen mit traumhaftem Blick auf die Bergkulisse.

Als Makler in Tirol/Österreich bin ich spezialisiert auf hochwertige Privat, Freizeit und Ferien Immobilien als auch Investitionsobjekte wie Hotels und Apartments mit Management und Service. Mit viel Leidenschaft und höchstem Maß an Professionalität begleite ich meine Kunden zum erfolgreichen Erwerb Ihrer Wunschimmobilie mitten im Herzen der Alpen, meiner Heimat. Ich freue mich auf Ihren Besuch. www.Conterra.at Reinhard Siller Siller@Conterra.at

Wir sind Makler in Südwest Florida, weil man hier am Wasser bauen kann.

Diese Villa auf Marco Island mit 4 Schlafzimmern und Bootsanleger liegt an einer wunderschönen Bucht mit Zugang zum Golf von Mexiko und ist nur wenige Minuten entfernt von den feinsandigen Stränden und Restaurants der Insel.

Wir sind Ihr Deutscher Makler in Naples und Marco Island, den elegantesten und traumhaftesten Regionen in Südwest Florida. Mit Palmen gesäumten Stränden, Yachthäfen, einer Weltklasse Philharmonie, vielen Kunst- und Kulturangeboten, edlen Restaurants und natürlich dem milden, subtropischen Klima und den unvergesslichen Sonnenuntergängen mitten am Golf von Mexiko. Wir freuen uns auf Ihren Besuch. www.BrokerBolsen.com Familie Bolsen

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R&H ID: ES-5633 6 | Asking Price: $199,900 Bedroom: 4 | Bath: 2.5 | TL A: 2,475 sq.ft.

191 Highway #3 57, Musquodoboi t Harbour

Oceanfront

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ID R&H A: 2,700 sq ath: 4 | TL B | 4 : m o e Bedro Ostrea Lak Lake Road, 1624 Ostrea

ricce: $250,000 0 | Asking Pri R&H ID: ES-555 kefront prox. 3,600 ft. La 236 Acres | ap t , Meaghers Gran Lays Lake Road

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R&H ID: ES-5562 6266 | As Ask king ing Pri ricce: $270,000 Bedroom: 5 | Bath: 1.5 | TLA : 2,200 sq.ft.

38 Park Road, Musquodoboi t Harbour

R&H ID: ES-5 5634 | Ask skiing Price: $1 60,900 Bedroom: 3 | Bath: 1 | TL A: 1,124 sq.ft 7627 Highw . ay #7, Musqu odoboit Har bour

Oceanfront

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2

1

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6

8

7

Borden 2

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10

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New Brunswick

12

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14

13

Tourism Region Locator Map

Prince Edward Island

Meat Cove

Cape North

Fundy Shore & Annapolis Valley

Ferry to Saint John,

N.B.

E S

Evangeline Trail

209

Spencers Island

L ry

Gilbert Cove

Church Point

Westport

Upper 2 Clements Smiths Clementsport Cove Bear River

Morristown 2

Hebron

Maitland Bridge

Kejimkujik

325

Lake Rossignol

Greenfield

1

325

3

331

Port Medway

Milton

Liverpool

West Pubnico

Sable River

Birchtown

Shelburne

103

Summerville Centre

Lunenburg

LaHave

Louis Head

Clyde River

Peggys Cove

349

Barrington

Lockeport

330

Clark’s Harbour

Halifax Metro

Cape Sable Island

104 101 2

210

Scale 1 : 1,100,000 0

3

4

5

10

20

6

30 km

6

7

7

Guysborough

Arichat

316

224

Clam Harbour

Liscomb

Isaacs Harbour ry Fer

Ecum Secum

Marine Drive Halifax Dartmouth

Trans Canada Highway

Supervised Beach

Provincial Arterial Highway

Beach Park with Mixed Facilities

Trunk Highway

Provincial Visitor Information Centre

Collector Highway

Major Airport

Local Road

Local Airstrip

8

10

New Waterford Dominion

Sydney

Glace Bay

Reserve Mines

D 255

Marconi Trail

Eastern Shore

Isle Madame

Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site of Canada

12

E

Fourchu

Point Michaud

Tor Bay

Cape Breton Island

F

13

14

15

16

17

18

Cape Breton Island

Eastern Shore

G

Outdoor Adventure

Nova Scotia operates a toll-free information and reservation service. For assistance when planning your trip or when you are in Nova Scotia, call 1-800-565-0000.

Look for one of the Visitor Information Centres located on this map. Qualified travel counsellors are waiting to serve your information and reservation needs. Information service is available seasonally on board most ferries to Nova Scotia and at locally operated tourist bureaus.

11

Northumberland Shore

Mira Gut Beach Scaterie Island

This map is your key to Nova Scotia's Tourism Regions and Scenic Travelways. The colour of each region matches its section in this guide. Map co-ordinates in the listings indexes (e.g. A15) can be used with this map to provide a general idea of the location.

Our companion map, with more complete highway and community details, is available at our Visitor Information Centres or through our toll-free information service.

Atlantic Ocean

Fundy Shore & Annapolis Valley

Louisbourg Gabarus

Bras d’Or Lakes Scenic Drive

For more details on Nova Scotia’s Visitor Services, please refer to page 29.

9

C

Port Bickerton

Acadian Region

24-hour Gas Station (Number per community) Subject to Change

.

Nfld es, qu as x-B Nfld. t-au tia, Por gen to Ar Ferry

22

River

247

Canso 316

to

St. Peter’s

320

Fleur-de-lis Trail

211

7

Tangier

Big Pond

16

St. Marys River

Sheet Harbour Spry Bay

207

Martinique Beach

344

4

ry Fer

Indian Beach 28

Boisdale Westmount Sydney River Sydney Forks 1 327 Marion Ben Eoin Bridge

Irish Cove

Dundee

4

Louisdale 206

Sherbrooke

Lawrencetown

Eastern Passage

Bras d’Or Lake

Sydney Mines

North Sydney

223

Grand Narrows Eskasoni

Boylston

Cape Sambro

Broad Cove

South Shore

322

Goshen

374

107

111

Herring Cove

Sambro

7

Musquodoboit Harbour Jeddore Oyster Pond

162

Bras d’Or

105

Bras d’Or Lakes Scenic Drive

Port Hawkesbury

Caledonia

118

6

Englishtown

St. Ann’s

Little Narrows Iona

Marble Mountain 105

Aspen

Moose River Gold Mines

357

North Preston Dartmouth Porters Lake 7

Cabot Trail Bird Islands

ry Fer

205

Baddeck Ferry

Orangedale

Havre Boucher

1 Aulds Port Hastings Cove Mulgrave

Lochaber

Upper Musquodoboit

Middle Musquodoboit Meaghers Grant

Lower Sackville

306

Lighthouse Route

Seaside Adjunct Kejimkujik National Park of Canada

1 Timberlea

Bayfield 347

336

277

212

Fall River

4 4

Bedford

The Ovens

White Point

Port Joli 3

3

1 Upper Tantallon 213

Halifax

Tancook

324

332

333

Rissers Beach

Pubnico

50.

Chester Mahone Bay Blandford

Ferry

Wedgeport

2

St. Beach Margaret’s 329 Bay

Oak Island Ferry

Bridgewater

103

Shag Harbour

103

Queensland

8

Argyle

1

Enfield

Cabot Trail

Whycocomagh

Judique Craigmore

348

224

1

St. Georges Bay

Antigonish

104

Upper Stewiacke

214

Elmsdale

1

337

245

4

Pomquet

Stewiacke Shubenacadie

1

203

Tusket Ste. Anne du Ruisseau

Mount Uniacke

101

Hubbards Caledonia

1

14

Lake Ainslie

Mabou

1

Stellarton

289

289

Indian Brook

252

2

2

215

14

210

335

South Rawdon

Trenton New Glasgow

Brookfield 2

208

334

P

202

Newburne Newburn ne Maplewood Mapl M plewood pl ple lew

Germany New German an ny

289

Wreck Cove

Yarmouth & Acadian Shores

Margaree Valley

Northeast Margaree

19

Truro 102

Brooklyn

New Ross

Kejimkujik Scenic Drive 340

236

Urbania

Port Hood

Arisaig

Melmerby Beach

348

Westville

104

Maitland

Kennetcook

1 1 10

Lake Milo Beach

Pictou

395

Glenville 312

Cape George

106

376

311

Noel 354

Martock

1

Pinkney's Point

Walton

Grand Pré

Hantsport

8

Caribou

256

Debert

236

Carleton

Cape Forchu

Londonderry

Ceilidh Trail

B

East Margaree

Margaree Forks Inverness

Northumberland Shore

Ferry

Pictou Island

215

Windsor 1

Darling Lake

Yarmouth 1

O

1

219

6

2

Minas Basin

341

1 New Minas

River John

326

Ingonish Cape Smokey

Balmoral Mills

Bass River

Economy Blomidon

Canning

Kentville Wolfville

Lake P Paul

National Park & Yarmouth National Historic Site & Acadian Shores of Canada

Port Maitland Beach

201

101

Comeauville

Clare

Mavillette

358 359

Berwick Coldbrook

Sunrise Trail

Brule

246

12 1

101

St. Mary’s Bay Meteghan

Annapolis Royal

Wentworth Tatamagouche 4

104

Cape Blomidon

1

Weymouth

Brier Island

Cape St. Mary Mavillette Beach

N

Digby

101

Wallace

A

Neils Harbour

St. Joseph du Moine Wood Islands

Malagash Williamsdale

Parrsboro

Cape Split

Halls Harbour

360

221

Str

307

Five Islands

Aylesford Greenwood

nd

ait

368

ay Causew Canso

M

1

Port Royal 217

Sandy Cove er Tiverton F Long Island y Ferr

Cape d’Or

362

Kingston Middleton

Bridgetown

rla

321

Port Greville

Harbourville

Margaretsville

Port George

Delaps Cove

301

Cape Breton Highlands National Park of Canada

Chéticamp

be

Pugwash

Oxford 321

204

Cape Chignecto

Advocate Harbour

K

um

204

104

302

Springhill 2

Dingwall White Point

Cabot Trail

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Heather Beach

Nappan 242

River Hebert

209

Apple River Eatonville

No

Northport

M ira

Amherst

6

Joggins

J Bay of Fundy

South Shore

Cabot’s Landing

Pleasant Bay

Minudie

W

Cape North

Bay St. Lawrence

1

366

Glooscap Trail

Halifax Metro

H

Tour Operators and Services

South Shore Lakefront Lakefront

FOR

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SALE

R&H ID: SS-2525 | Asking Price: $52,000 Lot Size +/- 1.15 Acres | +/- 138 ft. Lakefront Lot CL-4R Crouse Lake Road, Rhodes Corner

king Price: $229,900 R&H ID: SS-2625 | As | TLA: 1,378 sq.ft.

Bedroom: 2 | Bath: 2 Bay 8 Wyse Road, Mahone

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R&H ID: SS-22198 | Aski kin ngg Pri ricce: e $275,000 Lot Size +/- 86 Ac res | pre-approve d 10 Lots Highway #329, Ho llahan Lake, Deep Cove

Oceanfront FOR

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$ 95,000 riccee: $2 k ng Pri S -22583 | Aski R&H ID: SS .ft.

46 : 2 | TLA: 1,1 sq Bedroom: 2 | Bath ea 10, Chels 2465 Highway #2

R&H ID: SS S-260 6011 | As Aski king ng Pri rice ce:: $1,950,000 +/- 800 Acres Cape Negro Island, Ingomar

R&H ID : SS-265 6 | Ask Lot size ing Pric in : 12.06 A i e: $79 cres|Old ,500 cottage 45 Bras - sold a s Hill R s is oad, Br ass Hill

Digby, Annapolis Valley

Brier Island 2

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4

6

8

7

Borden 2

H

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10

11

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Tidnish

New Brunswick

12

15

14

13

Tourism Region Locator Map

Prince Edward Island

Meat Cove

Cape North

Fundy Shore & Annapolis Valley

Ferry to Saint John,

N.B.

E S

Evangeline Trail

209

Spencers Island

L ry

Gilbert Cove

Upper 2 Clements Smiths Clementsport Cove Bear River

Morristown 2

325

Queensland

Lake Rossignol

Greenfield

1

3

333

331

Port Medway

Milton

Liverpool

West Pubnico

Sable River

Birchtown

Shelburne

103

Summerville Centre

Lunenburg

Louis Head

Clyde River

Peggys Cove

Barrington

Lockeport

330

Clark’s Harbour Cape Sable Island

Halifax Metro 101 2

South Shore

210

3

4

5

10

20

6

30 km

6

7

7

322

7

Lawrencetown

Musquodoboit Harbour Jeddore Oyster Pond Martinique Beach

Clam Harbour

Arichat

Liscomb

Isaacs Harbour

Halifax Dartmouth

Supervised Beach Beach Park with Mixed Facilities

Trunk Highway

Provincial Visitor Information Centre

Collector Highway

Major Airport

Local Road

Local Airstrip

New Waterford Dominion

Sydney

Glace Bay

Reserve Mines

D 255

Marconi Trail

Eastern Shore

Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site of Canada

12

E

Fourchu

Tor Bay

Cape Breton Island

F

13

14

15

16

17

18

Cape Breton Island

Eastern Shore

G

Outdoor Adventure

Nova Scotia operates a toll-free information and reservation service. For assistance when planning your trip or when you are in Nova Scotia, call 1-800-565-0000.

Look for one of the Visitor Information Centres located on this map. Qualified travel counsellors are waiting to serve your information and reservation needs. Information service is available seasonally on board most ferries to Nova Scotia and at locally operated tourist bureaus.

11

Northumberland Shore

Mira Gut Beach Scaterie Island

This map is your key to Nova Scotia's Tourism Regions and Scenic Travelways. The colour of each region matches its section in this guide. Map co-ordinates in the listings indexes (e.g. A15) can be used with this map to provide a general idea of the location.

Our companion map, with more complete highway and community details, is available at our Visitor Information Centres or through our toll-free information service.

Atlantic Ocean

Fundy Shore & Annapolis Valley

Louisbourg Gabarus

Bras d’Or Lakes Scenic Drive

Point Michaud

For more details on Nova Scotia’s Visitor Services, please refer to page 29.

10

C

Port Bickerton

Acadian Region

9

.

Nfld es, qu as x-B Nfld. t-au tia, Por gen to Ar Ferry

22

River

247

Isle Madame

Canso 316

to

St. Peter’s

320

Fleur-de-lis Trail

211

ry Fer

Ecum Secum

Provincial Arterial Highway

Big Pond

16

7

Trans Canada Highway

8

344

4

ry Fer

Indian Beach 28

Boisdale Westmount Sydney River Sydney Forks 1 327 Marion Ben Eoin Bridge

Irish Cove

Louisdale 206

St. Marys River

Sheet Harbour Spry Bay Tangier

Marine Drive

24-hour Gas Station (Number per community) Subject to Change

Bras d’Or Lake Dundee

4

Sydney Mines

North Sydney

223

Grand Narrows Eskasoni

Boylston Guysborough 316

207

162

Bras d’Or

105

Bras d’Or Lakes Scenic Drive

Port Hawkesbury

Goshen

Aspen 224

Sherbrooke

107

111

Eastern Passage

Englishtown

St. Ann’s

Little Narrows Iona

Marble Mountain 105

Caledonia

374

Moose River Gold Mines

Cape Sambro

Broad Cove

Scale 1 : 1,100,000 0

6

349

104

Upper Musquodoboit

Middle Musquodoboit Meaghers Grant 357

North Preston Dartmouth Porters Lake 7

Herring Cove

Sambro

Lochaber

118

306

Lighthouse Route

Seaside Adjunct Kejimkujik National Park of Canada

1 Timberlea

348

277

212

Lower Sackville

4

Bedford

The Ovens

White Point

Port Joli 3

3

1

Enfield

Cabot Trail Bird Islands

ry Fer

205

Baddeck Ferry

Orangedale

1 Aulds Port Hastings Cove Mulgrave

347

336

224

1

Halifax

Tancook

324

332

Ferry

LaHave Rissers Beach

335

52.

Chester Mahone Bay Blandford

8

Wedgeport

2

325

Bridgewater

103

Shag Harbour

St. Beach Margaret’s 329 Bay

Oak Island Ferry

203

Argyle

Pubnico

Elmsdale

Fall River

4

Bayfield

Upper Stewiacke

Stewiacke Shubenacadie

Cabot Trail

Whycocomagh

Judique Craigmore Havre Boucher

ay Causew Canso

Caledonia

1 Upper Tantallon 213

St. Georges Bay

Antigonish

104

Pomquet

214

1

103

289

1

14

1

210

Tusket Ste. Anne du Ruisseau

101

Hubbards

Carleton

P

South Rawdon Mount Uniacke

337

245

4

289

215

Lake Ainslie

Mabou

1

2

2

Indian Brook

252

Brookfield 2

208

334

O

202

Newburne Maplewood

New Germany

289

Trenton New Glasgow

Stellarton

Truro 102

Brooklyn

New Ross

Maitland Bridge

236

Urbania

Port Hood

Arisaig

Melmerby Beach

348

Westville

104

Maitland

Kennetcook

14

Kejimkujik Scenic Drive

Kejimkujik

Lake Milo Beach

Noel

Wreck Cove

Yarmouth & Acadian Shores

Margaree Valley

Northeast Margaree

19

376

311

395

Glenville 312

Cape George

106

Pictou

1

1 10

Darling Lake Hebron

Walton

354

8

Caribou

256

Debert

Hantsport

Martock

340

Pinkney's Point

Londonderry

Ceilidh Trail

Pictou Island

B

East Margaree

Margaree Forks Inverness

Northumberland Shore

Ferry

6

215

236

National Park & Yarmouth National Historic Site & Acadian Shores of Canada

Cape Forchu

1

River John

326

2

Minas Basin

Grand Pré

1 New Minas

219

Balmoral Mills

341

Lake Paul

1

Mavillette

Yarmouth 1

Economy Blomidon

Canning

Kentville Wolfville

12

101

Port Maitland Beach

201

101

Comeauville

Clare

St. Mary’s Bay Meteghan

Annapolis Royal

358 359

Berwick Coldbrook

1

Weymouth

Brier Island

Cape St. Mary Mavillette Beach

N

Digby

101

Sunrise Trail

Brule

246

Ingonish Cape Smokey

Wood Islands

Wentworth Tatamagouche 4

Bass River

A

Neils Harbour

St. Joseph du Moine

Wallace

104

Cape Blomidon

Halls Harbour

360

221

Str

Malagash Williamsdale

Parrsboro

Cape Split

Five Islands

Aylesford Greenwood

nd

ait

368 307

Windsor

Church Point

Westport

M

1

Port Royal 217

Sandy Cove er Tiverton F Long Island y Ferr

Cape d’Or

362

Kingston Middleton

Bridgetown

rla

321

Port Greville

Harbourville

Margaretsville

Port George

Delaps Cove

301

Cape Breton Highlands National Park of Canada

Chéticamp

be

Pugwash

Oxford 321

204

Cape Chignecto

Advocate Harbour

K

um

204

104

302

Springhill 2

Dingwall White Point

Cabot Trail

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Heather Beach

Nappan 242

Riv R i River Heb H Hebert

209

Apple River Rive veer Apple nville Eatonville

No

Northport

M ira

Amherst

6

Joggins gins Joggins

J Bay of Fundy

South Shore

Cabot’s Landing

Pleasant Bay

Min Minudie

W

Cape North

Bay St. Lawrence

1

366

Glooscap Trail

Halifax Metro

H

Tour Operators and Services

Annapolis Valley Oceanview

FOR

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SALE

SALE

R&H ID: AV-3585 | Asking Price: $398 ,000 Bedroom: 3 | Bath: 2 | TLA: 3,902 sq.ft .

Oceanfront

king Price: $115,000 R&H ID: AV-3560 | As | TLA: 1,290 sq.ft.

Bedroom: 3 | Bath: 2 n 8172 Highway #1, Barto

R&H ID: A V-3606 | Ask skiing Price Bedroom: 2 : $158,000 | Bath: 1 | TLA: 1,358 sq.ft.

8551 Highw ay #217, Cen treville

Please contact our FOR

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Yarmouth & Acadian Shore and Annapolis Valley Associate Eva Stara Krebser

eanfront res | +/- 680 ft. Oc Lot Size: +/- 54 Ac ad, South Rawdon 1339 Ashdale Ro

902.746.4626 E.Stara@RobinsonHarmsen.com

Commercial FOR

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ricce: $129,500 9 | Asking Pri R&H ID: AV-358 sq.ft.

A: th: 2 | TL 1,730 Bedroom: 3 | Ba , Weymouth 4471 Highway #1

Oceanfront

FOR

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SALE

R&H ID: AV-3350 5055 | As Aski king ng Pri ricce: $399,000 Bedroom: 5 | Bath: 2 | TLA: 2,265 sq.ft.

90 Riverview Drive, New Edingburgh

R&H ID : AV-3343 8 | Askin Bedroom ing Pric e: $129,0 : 2x2 & 00 3x1 | Ba th: 5 | U 86 Monta nits: 5 gue Row , Digby

Cape Forchu, Yarmouth

2

1

G

3

5

4

6

8

7

Borden 2

H

9

10

11

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Tidnish

New Brunswick

12

15

14

13

Tourism Region Locator Map

Prince Edward Island

Meat Cove

Cape North

Cape Chignecto

Fundy Shore & Annapolis Valley

Ferry to Saint John,

N.B.

E S

Evangeline Trail

Spencers Island

Middleton

Bridgetown

L ry

Long Island y Ferr

Gilbert Cove bert C b Cov ovee

Church Point

Westport

Upper 2 Clements C l Smiths S miiths mi ittths h C Clementsport llement le ment ent nttts tspor sspor por Cove Co Bear Bea eaaarr River Rive

Hebron

Hubbards 325

1

Peggys Cove

349

Liverpool

West Pubnico

Sable River

Birchtown

Shelburne

103

Summerville Centre

Louis Head

Clyde River

Lockeport

Halifax Metro

Lighthouse Route

Seaside Adjunct Kejimkujik National Park of Canada

330

Clark’s Harbour Cape Sable Island

104 101 2

South Shore

210

Scale 1 : 1,100,000 0

3

4

5

10

20

6

30 km

6

7

7

Lawrencetown

Arichat

316

224

Musquodoboit Harbour Jeddore Oyster Pond Clam Harbour

Liscomb

Isaacs Harbour ry Fer

Ecum Secum

Marine Drive Halifax Dartmouth

Trans Canada Highway

Supervised Beach

Provincial Arterial Highway

Beach Park with Mixed Facilities

Trunk Highway

Provincial Visitor Information Centre

Collector Highway

Major Airport

Local Road

Local Airstrip

24-hour Gas Station (Number per community) Subject to Change

Acadian Region

8

10

Glace Bay

Reserve Mines

D 255

Marconi Trail

Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site of Canada

12

E

Fourchu

Point Michaud

Tor Bay

Cape Breton Island

This map is your key to Nova Scotia's Tourism Regions and Scenic Travelways. The colour of each region matches its section in this guide. Map co-ordinates in the listings indexes (e.g. A15) can be used with this map to provide a general idea of the location.

Our companion map, with more complete highway and community details, is available at our Visitor Information Centres or through our toll-free information service.

Eastern Shore

F

14

15

16

17

18

Cape Breton Island

Eastern Shore

G

Outdoor Adventure

Nova Scotia operates a toll-free information and reservation service. For assistance when planning your trip or when you are in Nova Scotia, call 1-800-565-0000.

13

Northumberland Shore

Mira Gut Beach Scaterie Island

Port Bickerton

Atlantic Ocean

Fundy Shore & Annapolis Valley

New Waterford Dominion

22

Look for one of the Visitor Information Centres located on this map. Qualified travel counsellors are waiting to serve your information and reservation needs. Information service is available seasonally on board most ferries to Nova Scotia and at locally operated tourist bureaus.

11

C

Louisbourg Gabarus

Bras d’Or Lakes Scenic Drive

For more details on Nova Scotia’s Visitor Services, please refer to page 29.

9

.

Nfld es, qu as x-B Nfld. t-au tia, Por gen to Ar Ferry

Sydney

River

247

Isle Madame

Fleur-de-lis Trail

316

to

St. Peter’s

320

Canso

211

7

Tangier

Big Pond

16

St. Marys River

Sheet Harbour Spry Bay

207

Martinique Beach

Dundee

4

344

4

Irish Cove

Louisdale 206

Cape Sambro

Broad Cove

White Point

Port Joli 3

3

322

Eastern Passage

Bras d’Or Lakes Scenic Drive

Boylston Guysborough

28

Boisdale Westmount Sydney River Sydney Forks 1 327 Marion Ben Eoin Bridge

ry Fer

Indian Beach

North Sydney

223

Bras d’Or Lake

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Tour Operators and Services

Yarmouth & Acadian Shores Oceanview FOR

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$289,500 4 | Asking Price: R&H ID: YA-162 sq.ft. : 1+2 | TLA: 2,348 Bedroom: 3 | Bath

R&H ID: YA-15574 74 | As Aski king ng Pri rice: $175,000 Bedroom: 3 | Bath: 1 | TLA: 1,392 sq.ft.

943 Placide Cameau Road, Metegan Station

ricce: $165,000 ng Pri king Aski 5800 | As R&H ID: YA-1158 Bedroom: 2 | Bath: 2 | TLA: 1,742 sq.ft.

1174 Highway #1, Little Brook

Lakefront

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Yarmouth & Acadian Shore and Annapolis Valley

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R&H ID: YA-1572 | Ask ing Price: $495,000 Bedroom: 3 | Bath: 1 | TLA: 1,723 sq.ft.

3827 Highway #1, Beaver River

902.307.0558 N.Rochford@RobinsonHarmsen.com

08/15 FOR

SALE

R&H ID: YA -1427 | Ask ing Price: $3 Bedroom: 5 25,000 | Bath: 3 | TLA: 1,712 sq.ft.

369 Plymou th Gentian Road, Gav elton

Lakefront

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R&H ID: YA-15514 14 | As Ask kin ingg Pri ricce: $339,000 Bedroom: 3 | Bath: 3 | TLA: 2,418 sq.ft.

235 Lakeside Drive, Kem ptville

$ 99,900 $1 skiing Price: 2 | Ask 40 1 -1 A Y : ID R&H A: 3,000 sq.ft. nne B&B | TL 4 Star Queen A #3, Pubnico 2775 Highway

Yarmouth & Acadian Shores Commercial Oceanview

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$215,000 5 | Asking Price: R&H ID: YA-165 sq.ft.

75 th: 1 | TLA: 1,2 Bedroom: 4 | Ba int Po o Road, Rocc 516 Rocco Point

R&H ID: YA-1566 | Asking Price: $49,000 +/- 32 Acres | 3 PID´s Lots Highway #1, Mavillette

R&H ID: YA-1603 | Asking Price: $275,000 Retail Outlet | Office Space | 8,380 sq.ft.

334-336 Main Street, Yarmouth

Lakefront FOR

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R&H ID: YA-1627 | Ask ing Price: $400,000 Offices: 4 | Retail Stores : 2 | Apartments: 2 250 Main Street, Ya rmouth

Asking Price: $100,000 R&H ID: YA-1591 | ft. Oceanfront +/- 2.61 Acres | +/- 260 St. Alphonse Lot #5 Deerfoot Trail,

A-1559 | A sking Price : $119,900 Bedroom: 4 | Bath: 1 | TLA: 2,276 526 Cedar L sq.ft. ake Road, C edar Lake

Oceanfront FOR

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ice: $95,000 575 | Asking Pr -1 YA : ID H R& : 1,097 sq.ft.

Bath: 1 | TLA | 2 : om ro ed B eteghan St. ivision Rd, M D nd co Se 39 15

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R&H ID: YA-1571 | Ask ing Price: $42,500 +/- 12 Acres | +/- 3,400 ft. Oceanfront Outer Sheep Island, Sur ettes Island

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Price: $100,000 592 | Asking R&H ID: YA-1 ceanfront . ft | +/- 255 O +/- 2.3 Acres . Alphonse oot Trail, St Lot #8 Deerf

FOR SALE 34 Norwood Court | Porters Lake | Eastern Shore LA

4 Lot Size: 2.3 acres

3.5 TLA: 5,200 sq. ft.

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Asking Price: $950,000

R&H Property ID: ES-5665 PID#: 40223281

FOR SALE 1624 Ostrea Lake Road | Ostrea Lake | Eastern Shore O

4 Lot Size: 1.07 acres

4 TLA: 2,700 sq. ft.

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R&H Property ID: ES-5666 PID#: 00591479

FOR SALE

161 Quoddy Drive | Sheet Harbour | Eastern Shore O

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R&H Property ID: ES-5401 PID#: 41025750

CHALET PRINCESS, mit Blick auf die Eiger Nordwand

2011 erbaut nach den neuesten energietechnischen Standards Chalet Princess bietet Platz für bis zu 10 Personen.

Im Erdgeschoss be¿ndet sich neben einer grosszügigen Garage für zwei Autos die einladende Wellnessanlage mit Finnischer und biologischer Sauna, Dampfbad, Whirlpool und separater Dusche und WC. Ein Weinkeller und ein geräumiger Ski– und Fahrradraum runden das Raumprogramm ab.

Mit dem Lift kommen Sie angenehm in das Obergeschoss, wo sich drei Schlafzimmer mit jeweils eigenem Badezimmer be¿nden.

Vom Obergeschoss aus hat man direkten Zugang zur grossen Terrasse, auf der man in aller Ruhe entspannen und den Blick über die Berge von Grindelwald sowie die Eiger Nordwand schweifen lassen kann.

Herzstück des Hauses ist das Dachgeschoss, in dem sich neben der offenen Küche der Wohn– und Essbereich be¿ndet und auf einer Galerie ist Platz für eine Spielecke für Kinder oder ein kleines Büro.

VP: 5‘800‘000 CHF Weitere Informationen unter www.SwissDomizil.com 58.

CHALET BÄRGBACH, mit Blick auf das Jungfraujoch

VP 2’300‘000 CHF

Weitere Informationen unter www.SwissDomizil.com Contact info see page 42/43

CHALET an der LENK VP: 2‘475‘000 CHF

59.

Marco Island Naples, Florida

Admiralty House on Marco Island

BEACHFRONT CONDO

Rarely available end unit with dramatic beach and island views from the 17th ﾆバor just below penthouse level. Sparkling and peaceful city lights at night!

The Admiralty house is located directly on the beach and offers a large heated pool.

New A/C in 2012. Hurricane Shutters installed on all windows.

Asking Price 1,025 total sq ft.

US $435,000

Stefan Bolsen, JD | Associate Broker, CIPS | Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate 550 5th Ave S, Naples, FL 60.

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Players Cove Dr. This elegant coach home with 3 bedrooms plus den and 3 full bathrooms on 2,743 sq ft living space offers one of the best lake views in Lely Resort and is directly located across from the fabulous Players Club with pools, tennis, restaurants and Ć&#x201A;tness.

The coach home was built in 2013 to the newest building codes and is appointed with impact resistant windows, wooden kitchen & bathroom cabinets, granite, crown molding and wet bar with wine cooler. The oversi\ed screened balcony and a 2 car-garage are included in the 3, 4 sq ft total area.

Asking Price US $549,000

Stefan Bolsen, JD | Associate Broker, CIPS | Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate 550 5th Ave S, Naples, FL

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