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With the expanse of the Gulf of St. Lawrence on one side and the mountains of the Cape Breton Highlands on the other, the most impressive thing about Le Portage Golf Club is the scenery. When autumn shows off her colors the course is particularly sublime. It’s easy to see why fall is the most [...]

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 [...]

If mainland Nova Scotia has a true wilderness, it reaches its deepest point where Queens, Annapolis and Digby Counties meet. The 200-odd centimeters of rain that falls here every year gives the place a lush, rainforest-like feel. The geographical features are archetypes of the Canadian wilderness. Huge wooded lakes with names like Molega, Ponhook, Kejimkujik [...]

Route 311 from Truro is old indeed – a climb up through the mountains, over the backs of the Cobequids, down the other side into the valley of the Waugh River. Along this ancient trail, Acadians once made their way from the fertile heartland of the Minas Basin to the Northumberland coastal town of Tatamagouche, [...]

The North Mountain Road is remote, overlooked and spectacular. The road that follows the seaward side of Nova Scotia’s North Mountain is one of the best mineral collecting destinations in an area renowned for its minerals and semi-precious stones. The North Mountain Road follows the sheer coast of the Bay of Fundy for 100 miles. [...]

“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 [...]

When Enos Collins died in 1871 after a very long life, he was said to be the wealthiest man in the new nation of Canada. Collins had made most of his money in a way we might find strange today. He was a privateer – a legal pirate licensed by the British crown – who [...]