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Granite Springs manages to be Nova Scotian the way the Banff Springs Golf Course exemplifies the Rockies or Cavendish showcases Prince Edward Island. It’s a signature course for the entire province — a lush, green golf course incased in a border of harsh granite rock.
Course designers Cornish and Robinson  have done a remarkable job of [...]

With turning leaves colouring the shoreline of nearby Grand Lake, fall is the perfect time to enjoy a round of golf at Oakfield Golf & Country Club. The pace of the course is slower and it’s a relaxing way to spend an afternoon. Fall is when the true golfers come to play.
Located in a picturesque [...]

Anyone who has made the breathtaking trip along highway 2 to Parrsboro knows the area is one of Nova Scotia’s best kept secrets. For golfers, the area holds an extra appeal. Parrsboro Golf Course is a short but challenging gem on the shore of the Minas Basin.
Parrsboro’s creditials as a place of scenic beauty are [...]

“A powerful site.” That’s how Graham Cooke described the Glen Arbour Golf Course when I spoke to him just before the course opened in 1999. “It’s a large vista course that winds through a large forested property. Each hole is a unique experience.”
As one of Canada’s premier golf course designers as well as a top [...]

Thursday September 4, 1856 was a festive day in the little village of Chester, Nova Scotia. The community hosted a grand regatta that day. Everything that could float was pressed into service: gigs of four oars, whaleboats, flats, punts and canoes all competed for cash prizes and bragging rights. Sailboats raced as well, nine boats [...]

 
It’s a popular summer event, one that swells the tourist town of Baddeck to capacity on the first Sunday every August. Sailors and landlubbers alike take their places on the Water Street wharves and beaches that line the shore of Baddeck harbour, to watch a parade of boats – fiberglass racing sloops, wooden schooners, classic [...]

 
The Saint John River is Atlantic Canada’s longest river system, and a natural highway through the heart of New Brunswick, carrying river traffic, saw logs and water to the towns and farms along its bank. For much of its length it forms the border between the United States and Canada. And for boaters, it is [...]

The big blue sloop bobs patiently at it’s mooring, waiting, not for a storm to pass or a race to start, but for a red light to change to green. Plenty of sailors spend a lifetime on the high seas and never heave to for a red light. Not so for those lucky enough to [...]

 
For more than a decade she sat, rotting away in the corner of a Lunenburg County barn. By the time boat restorer Matt Durnford got ahold of it two years ago, only about 15 percent of Bluenose 15 was still in salvageable condition. “She was in totally wrecked condition,” Durnford recalls. “Everywhere she had been [...]