Eastwards to Annapolis Royal

After leaving Kejimkujik National Park we headed toward the coast and found a camping ground in a place called Annapolis Royal. It was an interesting little town steeped in history but now with only about 400 permanent residents. We took a walking tour through the town after visiting their public gardens. The enclosed picture shows deGannes-Crosby House which was built in 1708 by Major Lewis deGannes de Falaise, a French Officer posted to Port Royal in 1696. It later became the home of Lieutenant-Governor of Annapolis Royal, Major Alexander Cosby, hence the name. This house is the oldest documented wooden structure in Nova Scotia. At 9.30pm we, and 30 others, took a graveyard tour, on foot complete with lantern, through the local graveyard where the guy from the historical society explained the history of some of the tombstones and their association with the town. Dressed in the appropriate attire and with a wealth of local knowledge he made it an interesting evening. This graveyard contains the oldest English epitaph in Canada, 1720, recording the tomb of Bathiah Douglass.