Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1952)

179 Photographs from Canadian Government Travel Bureau MODERN MOTELS, at attractive rates, dot the highways of Eastern Canada. One above is at Niagara Falls, in Ontario. QUEEN ELIZABETH WAY, above right, is a boulevarded super-highway connecting Niagara Falls and Toronto. The sentry, always ready in his scarlet tunic to oblige a cameraman, is at Old Fort Henry near Kingston, on the St. Lawrence. turies of rushing water. At Perth, 20 miles distant, Otellach Falls churns through a narrow fissure to unite the Tobique and St. John Rivers. A few miles up the Tobique is Maliseet Indian Reserve, where handmade baskets of sweet-smelling hay and native-wood furniture are fashioned by the Maliseets. Hartland, 25 miles beyond Perth, claims its 1926 foot covered bridge is the longest anywhere. Hartland Salmon Pool, at the mouth of the Becaguimec, yields salmon twenty five pounds and up, caught by casting from the shore. A camera record of such a catch will prove your "big one" story back home. Seventy five miles below Hartland on this smooth-paved highway is Fredericton, one of Canada's loveliest provincial capitals. Built on the banks of the St. John in 1784, it numbers among its at: tractions the priceless Audubon Bird Books, one of the only two such sets in existence. At the mouth of the river, 90 miles from Fredericton, stands the city of Saint John, an important Atlantic port. Here also is one of nature's novelties, the Reversing Falls, caused by the 30 foot tides which squeeze through narrow Glooscap Gorge, creating a falls up-river at high tide and down-river at low tide. Highway No. 2 swings eastward from Saint John for about a hundred miles to Moncton. Fundy National Park on Chignecto Bay offers an interesting side trip, and Fort Beausejour, 20 miles out of Moncton, has been preserved as a national historic park. Moncton is on the Petitcodiac River, up which sweeps the famed Tidal Bore, raising the water level more than 30 feet in the city's harbor. The entire route through New Brunswick is paved and well marked. Holiday accommodation along the highway is plentiful, with auto courts, cabins and country inns, complete with modern plumbing, for as little as $2 per night. The New Brunswick menu offers such regional specialties as Petitcodiac baked beans and fresh lobster. A home cooked meal with all the trimmings can be had for $1.50 or less. PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND From Cape Tormentine, 60 miles from Moncton, an automobile ferry crosses nine-mile Northumberland Strait to Port Borden on Prince Edward Island. The ferry, which leaves every four hours, costs $2 per auto and 45^ per passenger, one way. The return rate, good for the Wood Islands-Carriboo ferry also, is $3 per auto, 65(/' per passenger. A leisurely 17 mile drive through Prince Edward Island, aptly named the Garden of the Gulf, ends at Summerside, a peaceful holiday town on Bedeque Bay. From here, again on Highway No. 2, the route leads past Malpeque Bay and its renowned oyster farms. If it's harvest time, delicious Malpeque oysters may be sampled fresh from the floor of the bay as they are raked up by fishermen. A cut-off leads to Cavendish, immortalized by Lucy Maud Montgomery in her Anne of Green Gables novel. and to Prince Edward Island National Park, whose red sand beaches face onto the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Cottage accommodation in the park costs as little as $1.50 per person daily, while summer hotels have all-inclusive daily rates from $4.00 American plan. The 18 hole Green Gables golf course is open to visitors; green fees are a dollar. Charlottetown, 40 miles from Summerside on No. 2, is capital of the province and birthplace of Canada's nationhood. The city's Provincial Building houses the Confederation Chamber where plans for Canadian union were drawn in the 1860's. [Continued on page 186]