New Brunswick

Flower Pot Formation on the Bay of Fundy

Our final stop in Nova Scotia was Grand-Pre’ Historic Park. Here we heard the story of the Acadians in Canada. They settled here for many years getting along with the native population. But the land was signed over to England and the English didn’t trust these French, Roman Catholic people. The people refused to swear an oath of loyalty to the British, afraid that they would have to fight against other French descendents in New France across the Bay. The British decided to evict the people, they gathered them up over the course of 8 years, burned their houses and either sent them down into the other British colonies, Britain, or France. Of course, some of these folks ended up in Louisiana, created the French flavor of New Orleans.
In New Brunswick, we stopped at the Hope Rocks and series of rock shaped by the tide in the Bay of Fundy. The most famous formations are the flower pots, which had narrow bottoms and wider tops. The tides here are extra high (10-30 meters) because the Bay of Fundy is a long narrow bay, and there is a natural rhythm to the tides that gets reinforced by the shape of the bay here. Tonight, we’re spending out evening in Fundy National Park.