Farewell to Nova Scotia I Montage I Instrumental Arrangement by Canadian Artist

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A beautiful rendition of “Farewell to Nova Scotia” by Canadian artist Peter Schaffter. "Farewell to Nova Scotia" is a famous folk song from Nova Scotia, adapted from the Scottish lament, "The Soldier's Adieu" written by Robert Tannahill. Explore the province while listening to Nova Scotia’s anthem!
You can listen to other songs by Peter Schaffter here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUhxBZDJtPyW1Q9-gG-6Cow and http://www.schaffter.ca/scores.html

Many thanks to the following photographers for their Creative Commons “classic shots” of this thrillingly-beautiful Maritime province.

Dennis Jarvis:
Please visit his amazing photo stream on https://www.flickr.com/photos/archer10/albums/72157603630984648 . Photos by Jarvis:

-“An artist painting a picture of the Bluenose II and the people who are working on it in Lunenburg.”

-The Dory Shop in Lunenbourg

-Information Shelter by The Friends of McNabs, McNab island.

-Fort Point Lighthouse (Liverpool)

-”Church and Pond” St Andrews Anglican Church beside the Mill Pond in Timberlea

-”Bridge Mural” - bridge with mural from old railway bridge on the Trans Canada Trail, world's longest network of recreational trails.

-”Light on the Boat” (Terence Bay, a fishing community on the Chebucto Peninsula in the Halifax Regional Municipality).

-”McDonald Brothers' Sawmill” (Sherbrooke Village)

-”Walking Wheel” (The McMillan House, pre-1870, restored as a weaver's residence where textile demonstrations are given).

-”Family Room,” Greenwood Cottage was built by John and Sarah Cumminger in 1871.

-”Post Office and Printery” (Sherbrooke Village, a museum/tourist attraction which shows a typical Nova Scotian village from 1860 to pre-WW1.

-”Folk Art…” - a house with folk art painted on it

-”T-Ford” (1950's gas station with original model T-Ford at Memory Lane Heritage Village).

“St. Bernard” (a church that took 32 years to build -from 1910 to 1942 -with large granite blocks being shopped from Shelburne by train and ox teams.

-“Roofer no Painter......” A man painting
-Lunenburg Academy

-”Blue Rock House” (artisan fishing house)

-”Canada Proud” -Canadian Flag flying on a wharf in Mahone Bay

-Mahone Bay Home (stately blue home)

-”Ready to Fish” Photo of a boat called Tanya C and other boats at Cheticamp, a traditional Acadian fishing village along the Cabot Trail.

-Walton Harbour Lighthouse

-Town of Cheticamp as seen from Cheticamp Island on the way to Enragée Point Lighthouse.
-Stella Maris Church built 1846 for soldiers at York Reboubt
-Horse rider at Light Horse Event
-Mill Lake Hydro Electric Plant
-Alexander Graham Bell Museum
-“Up Lifting....” Anglican Church, Mill Cove, St. Margaret’s Bay, Nova Scotia
-Halifax Stanfield International Airport
-Bounty sculpture - Peggy of Peggy’s Cove

-guard at Fort George, the fortified summit of Citadel Hill, a National Historic Site of Canada.

-78th Highland Regiment
-Seal Island Bridge

-”Land of Our Own: “Statue on the waterfront: A Land of Our Own by William Ernest Brown of Sydney and Los Angeles. In memory of the immigrants to Cape Breton.”

-St. George’s Anglican Church in downtown Sydney, Nova Scotia. Stone Gothic Revival style church. Built between 1785 and 1791.

-“Passenger Car” (train museum)

-Louisburg (courtyard of the King's Bastion.)

-”Tour Guide” at Mine Tour

-Miner's Museum, Cape Breton

-”1850's House” (Miner’s Museum)

-nighttime Downtown Halifax as seen from Dartmouth

-The “Catherine Knutsen” boat in Bedfrod Basin, Halifax

-Kayaks at Terence Bay

-Coast Guard ship Sir William Alexander, Dartmouth

-VIA Rail's 6400 and 6416 at terminal in Halifax

-M.V. Northern Osprey - Factory/Freezer Shrimp and Ground fish Trawler

-Duck pond near Peggy's Cove

- House with art on it at Eagle's Head Road not far from West Berlin

-Nova Scotian Sidney Crosby who scored winning goal (Olympics)

-Amusement park lake, rollorcoaster and train

-Port Royal national historic site

-Old Pugwash Lighthouse (Pugwash Harbour)

-”Sea King at Cape d'Or Lighthouse”

Also thanks to:

Samuel Benoit for picture of cyclist in Nova Scotia

Louperivois for photo of Province House (Nova Scotia)

Doug Kerr for photo of man crossing the street in Halifax

Rex Turgano - Atlantic Snow Storm (Halifax)

To are you gonna eat that for photo of King of Donair, Halifax

To Weldon Young for “Street Wall Art - Mikmaw Native Friendship Centre, 2157 Gottingen St, Halifax, NS (right2)”

From Unsplash: special credit to Tim Foster, Harjinder, Noémi Macavei-Katócz, Tyler Farmer, Jamie Morrison, Bannon Morrissy, Sharissa Johnson & Joseph Holihan

Special thanks to Wayne Malone (Pexels) -drone footage shown at end of this video and Max Medyk (Pexels) “Downtown Halifax Skyscrapers by the Sea”

-Acadia University, Wolfville,drone footage, courtesy François Foulem
NS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACXBom9iGWU

--"Episode 18: Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo Parade"
hfxland1749 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mZe7...

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