Some Afterthoughts

We have some time to kill before leaving for the airport, so here are some afterthoughts.

I planned the itinerary to leave yesterday as an empty day so that we could slip the schedule if we had to. As it turned out, we kept the schedule by dropping some planned stops and ended up with a pretty empty day. It was relaxing, but it would have been nice to take something else in. We missed the stop at the Acadian Village at Caraquet, the Ross Farm at New Ross (near Halifax), the Orwell Historic Village on PEI, and the New Brunswick Museum in St. John. There were a few lesser misses also. Everywhere we went, we could have spent more time. I guess three weeks isn't long enough.

It was quite interesting to refresh our memories of that early Canadian history dimly remembered from 40 or so years ago. They were sure tough times with the major powers periodically at war and people being deported hither and yon.

In Nova Scotia and the Fundy Coast of New Brunswick, they have really romanticized their privateer history. A privateer is basically a pirate with a license from the government (the King) to harass someone else's shipping and steal their stuff. At the same time, our plains indians who were doing the same thing among themselves were considered to be primitive savages. About the only differences that made privateering civilized is that they used more advanced technology and paid tax!