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HOTELS—CUISINE—SPORTS
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waning and the newer Queen waxing in prestige. The Royal of St. John, the best of New Brunswick hotels, is quite typically British in substantial comfort and excellence of service. Like nearly all the hotels in the Provinces it is conducted on the American plan. A near neighbour is the well-kept Victoria just below King Square.

The terms for room and board without bath at the better class hotels of the cities approximate $3 per day per person. Principal hotels in smaller towns and at resorts charge $2 to $4 a day for the same accommodation, or $8 to $20 a week. Boarding-houses in towns and on farms, and humble inns, excellent, some of them, make a rate of $1 to $1.50 a day, or $5 to $8 a week.

Some tourist hotels have cabins in connection with the main building which are leased to guests preferring their restful isolation. Hotels having such accommodation (the Hillsdale, Annapolis, the Milford House, Milford, the Kedgemakoogee Club, Lour Lodge, Digby, the Hackmatack, Chester, the Gainsborough, Hubbards, the Rocky Point colony near Charlottetown, etc.) are specified in the Hotel List at the end of this volume. There are unconventional cottage colonies near Yarmouth, Weymouth, Smith's Cove, Wolfville, Antigonish and Charlottetown and on New Brunswick river and bay shores, where furnished cabins may be rented at reasonable prices.

Information concerning New Brunswick camps