FROM NOVA SCOTIA.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1396, 23 March 1912, Page 6

FROM NOVA SCOTIA.

A PKOSPEROCS COCNTET. We hear a good deal of Canada from lime to time, but not much of the provinces on the eastern coast of the big Continent'. Among tho visitors to Wellington on Thursday were Dr. and Mrs. T. M. Lovitt, of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, who are engaged on a round tour of Australasia. They landed at Auckland from Vancouver recently, are at present touring Nov.- Zealand, and later will visit Hobart, Melbourne, and Sydney, from which port, they sail again tor Vancouver. Dr. Lovitt is a member of a family which has been settled a long time in Nova Scotia. His father was a ship-owner in tlio days when Yarmouth, Halifax, and SI. John's were really big shipbuilding ports, whoso vessels ventured- to every.part in the world. Ho can remember i hree of his father's vessels bnini! in New Zealand valors al the- one time. Nova .Scotia was only abnnl :!»() bv 100 miles yet it, had a papulation of filifl.unn, which was steadily increasing each vear. Its industrial importance, Dr. Lovitt. ventured, could l;a judged from (he fact (hat its revenue l :1 .| year totalled ]25.0l)U.OOO dollars, lis chief industries were the Umber Ir.idc. coal, aud iron, mining, lishing, and fruit culture. There is a little valley not far Irani Yarmouth onlv 1011 miles by five railed Annapolis, which last year exported over 2,000,00!) barrels ol apple-i of 1121b. each. In this vallevLvaiißelines Country—tho orchards blossomed in May, and the fruit was picked m hoptcmher and October. They had pretty hard winters, bill experience had given them a hard-skinned variety of appjo which could stand a bit of frost. Yarmouth was not a von- largo place but Halifax and St. John's were big shipping ports, now within fivo davs' steam ot Liverpool. In winter St. John's was tho terminal port of a verv 'fine lino of steamers, of which the Empress of Ireland was tho latest and best, but in sumnier when the ice on the St. Lawrcnco breaks the steamers went right up the river to Quebec. Though tho winters in Eastern Canada in one senso were sovero Uho ground being covered with snow and the rivers and lakes with ice) it was not at all unpleasant, and Dr. Lovitt explained that a person living in Quebec would not think or inviting anyono to visit tjio place save in mid-wiutor which was tuo height of the social season. In tho summer they like to get away to tho lakes or tho bush.