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TOURIST TOWNS AND RESORTS
OF THE
MARITIME PROVINCES
POPULATION[1]— HOTELS[2]— BANKS[3]
(The presence of an American Consulate or Consular Agency is designated thus ¶)
NOVA SCOTIA
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Amherst; pop., 9000; hotel, St. Regis.
Annapolis Royal ¶; pop., 1000; hotel, Hillsdale and cabins.
Antigonish; pop., 1780; hotel, Royal George.
Arichat, Isle Madame (20 miles from Mulgrave by boat); hotel, Commercial.
Baddeck (12 miles from Iona by boat); pop., 1700 (district); hotels, New Bras d'Or, Telegraph.
- ↑ Where population of towns is not given, figures are not available in Canadian census volume, 1911. Population of Nova Scotia, 492,338; New Brunswick, 351,889; Prince Edward Island, 93,728.
- ↑ Hotels are conducted on the American plan. Principal hotels in Halifax, Sydney, Yarmouth, St. John and Charlottetown charge $2.50–$3.50 a day up; smaller hotels and boarding-houses, $2–$2.50. Rates in other important towns and at frequented resorts, $2–$4 a day (average $2–$2.50); $8–$10–$12–$20 a week. Hotels and boarding-houses in unimportant villages, on farms and at sportsmen's retreats, $1–$1.50 a day; $5–$7–$8 a week. Whenever possible, essentially commercial hotels have been excluded from this list in favour of those best suited to fill the needs of the tourist and sojourner. The Intercolonial, Dominion Atlantic and Halifax and Southwestern Railway vacation folders give the address of numerous private boarding-houses and camps.
- ↑ In most Provincial towns branches will be found of at least one of the banks given opposite principal places in this list.
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