Nova Scotia Notes

I doubt that anyone reading Steve Silk’s article on Nova Scotia would be moved to pay this province a visit (“The Cradle of Canada,” Aug. 13).

My husband and I spent our honeymoon there and went back some years ago but didn’t bother with the prosaic Digby or Annapolis Royal.

Crossing from Bar Harbor, Me., to Yarmouth, we headed for the scenic north, the charms of which once seen will never be forgotten: water, water everywhere; picturesque villages like Peggy’s Cove; the inland ocean-lake, Bras D-Or; the reconstructed French fort at Louisbourg; the whole of Cape Breton; the Alexander Graham Bell Museum at Baddeck, and above all, the fantastic tides in the Bay of Fundy.

Please have Christopher Reynolds go up there and then tell your readership what it’s all about. KATHARINE McCORMACK

Tarzana

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My wife and I recently returned from Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. Your article is well written with excellent photos, but the guidebook says, “The 200-mile boat ride [Portland to Yarmouth] is the easiest way to get to the Canadian province from New England.”

There is a six-hour ferry from Bar Harbor to Yarmouth, much faster and easier than the 11-hour trip cited. The article also states, “From Yarmouth to Annapolis Royal, driving time is about three hours.” The distance is about 100 miles. Without stops along the way, it can be made in less than an hour and a half.

WILLIAM D. SIMPSON

Rancho Palos Verdes