Travel day going between Prince Edward Island and Cape Briton Highlands I stopped at The Museum of industry in New Glasgow, NB. This museum was well laid out moving progressively through time to show industrial development of the Maritimes. Early days showed trades common for the period and location - farmer, blacksmith, carpenter, barrel maker, housewife and as new industry came the trades changed as well.
Investors from Great Britton developed the coal mines, very large veins were located here and huge industry to extract coal. Trains and ships to move the coal, supporting industries. Later metal manufacturing, and now farming, sea products such as lobster mussels, scallops and finally tourism.
This is a very good museum with volunteers to demonstrate some of the trades tools.
Gee these were some rules
Model railroad designed around the coal town.
Cable driven
Traveling bus to teach machine shop tools
Machine shop
First day in Cape Breton Highlands we all felt that driving the whole Cabot Trail was in order. Of course, I take the motorcycle for the 200-mile road trip over some beautiful coastline, high plateau, Aspy fault.
Today the morning was cloudy with periodic rain, so I stopped at a bakery for coffee and snack to wait the weather out a little. Several other motorcycle riders had the same idea, I sat next to a couple who had ridden up from Boston, MA to spend a week touring. The are originally from South Africa and had some British accent and we had a very enjoyable conversation sharing thoughts and ideas about touring.
Such a beautiful coastline.
Some of the other WIN's stopped to hike certain trails but I felt that I would be hard pressed to make the 200-mile trip on the motorcycle just stopping at roadside pullouts for scenic views. So, I continued on. Before I was halfway through I was able to get gas for the motorcycle has a fuel range of 150 miles. I definitely felt better once I fueled up.
At the center of the island on the northern most area is Aspy Fault. This is a tectonic plate that dropped many years ago and runs deep undersea from here. You can see the ridge very clearly here making spectacular foliage views. Soon I believe there will be foliage color everywhere for I see changes happening all around us.
The ride was highlighted in yellow.
Alexander Graham Bell is credited for inventing the telephone, yet there are other things he invented. Bell moved to Baddeck, NS for half the year each year to raise his family. He continued experimenting with many different ideas. This museum showed some of his family life but mostly his interest in inventing things.
Airplane design
Hydrofoil
Over near the town of Iona is the Highlands Village, this is a town they built by bringing authentic building from the area to one spot. The docents were dressed in Scottish garb for the period of time they are representing. Each building in sequence started in the mid 1700's through 1925. In one a woman was baking biscuits on a wood stove!
Marsha, Karen, Bob, Myself
Baking biscuits
General store
Wool carding machine, nearby was a shingle cutting machine for roofing shingles
Cable driven
Traveling bus to teach machine shop tools
Marsha, Karen, Bob, Myself
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