4 NOVA SCOTIA 



S France, spring comes a little later than in Ontario or along the 

 Pacific coast ; but, on the other hand, mild summer-like weather, 

 often lingering until the very end of October, more than mak 

 up for this. To some of the more northerly portions of the North- 

 west Territory the term of ' Our Lady of the Snous ' may not be 

 inapplicable for some months of the year at least, but it has no mean- 

 ing whatever when applied to Canada generally: particularly t> 

 her maritime provinces. 



There is no province of the Dominion of Canada possessing 

 a more astonishing variety of natural resources than the little 

 sea-girt peninsula of Nova Scotia. Few indeed are the regions 



APPLE ORCHARD IN BLOSSOM : ' HIGH-CREST,' ANNAPOLIS VALLEY. 



