| Nova Scotia is a small Canadian province on the | | | | arms in international politics and in the longer run |
| southeastern coast, next to New Brunswick and | | | | to eliminate such arms." |
| Prince Edward Island. It has a continental climate, | | | | Tatamagouche the town on the Northumberland |
| usually fairly cold and cloudy, with summers that | | | | Strait means "meeting of the waters" in the |
| fall into the later part of the year and last for a | | | | native Mi'kmaq. This is exactly what happens here. |
| relatively short period of time. There are also 196 | | | | It is situated at the mouths of the French River, |
| average days of fog in some parts of Nova | | | | the Waugh River and on the south side of the |
| Scotia. The landscape offers many opportunities | | | | Tatamagouche Bay. |
| for those who visit to see many impressive sites. | | | | The port town of Pictou is the most popular area |
| More than 40,000 people in Nova Scotia are | | | | for tourism in Nova Scotia. Located on the north |
| employed by the tourism industry in some way in | | | | shore, many Scottish settlers came to Pictou in |
| Nova Scotia. | | | | the 18th century, leading to its slogan as "The |
| Amherst is a popular destination for those who | | | | Birthplace of New Scotland." The Hector Festival, |
| travel to Nova Scotia. It is on the edge of the | | | | celebrating the boat Hector that brought many of |
| vast Amherst Marsh on a hill, near the border of | | | | those settlers to Pictou, is every August. The |
| Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. It is a small | | | | beaches and ferry trips to Price Edward Island |
| town with around 9000 residents. | | | | and New Glasgow make it a great attraction. |
| Pugwash is on the Pugwash River of course, and | | | | Antigonish has been settled by the French, English |
| is a small fishing and salt mining town, as it is | | | | and Irish during its long history. Now it is a college |
| home to the largest underground salt mine in | | | | town, home to Saint Francis Xavier University, |
| Atlantic Canada. The Pugwash Conferences were | | | | and is considered by many to be one of the best |
| started by Bertrand Russell and Cyrus Eaton. | | | | undergraduate universities in Canada. There has |
| Eaton was a native of Pugwash. The conferences | | | | been a building boom in Antigonish and the main |
| were begun as a way to bring great science | | | | employer in the town is the university and St. |
| minds from both sides of the Cold War together | | | | Martha's Regional Hospital. Antigonish hosts a very |
| in one place, Eaton's estate lodge, to explain their | | | | famous version of the Highland Games in July |
| own oppositional attitudes towards nuclear | | | | every year. The Highland Games are typically held |
| weapons. These conferences were honored in | | | | in Scotland, and other regions with very heavily |
| 1995 with a Nobel Prize for Peace "for their | | | | Scottish and Celtic heritages. |
| efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear | | | | |