Halifax, Nova Scotia - August 5, 2015

Slow start to our day with coffee and carrot cake for breakfast.  We spent the majority of the day at Pier 21 - the Canadian Immigration Museum.  Most immigrants from the early 1900's to the early 1970's arrive through Pier 21 in Halifax.  It was fascinating.  This is a great museum.  We tried to do some research on my parents who arrived at Pier 21 in the late 1940's but the records were not available.  The only public records available are those from ships from the UK.  I think my parents came on ships from Germany.  In order to gain access to the the records in Canada, privacy laws require them to request the records themselves or have passed away more than 20 years prior for next of kin to access the records.  We had lunch of a lobster roll and burger and caramel cake and creme brûlée at The Bicycle Thief on the waterfront.  Very good.  We then went on a tour of Alexander Keith's brewery - it was quite good with staff in period costumes and accents and we finished the tour with beer (I got Janice's beer too).  We went to the hotel for a nap and then walked the harbourfront and stopped at the far end at Salty's for some mussels (they were huge) and a couple of drinks.  Off to the Seaweed and Sod B and B (working farm) in Cape Breton tomorrow...