July 10-11, 2016
What could top a coal mine tour to celebrate a wedding anniversary [our 39th]? Dinner at the Hilden Volunteer Fire Brigade! Firemen and their supporters hosted the caravan for grilled pork chops, potato salad, slaw, and strawberry shortcake for donations.
We were made members of the “Order of the Good Time”, founded in 1606 by explorer Samuel de Champlain to maintain morale through the provision of a weekly good meal and entertainment.
In the morning we toured Stanfield’s, a clothing manufacturer established in Truro in 1870. Early products were wool and included heavy rib underwear with a drop seat. The company has diversified into several enterprises including the development, manufacture and marketing of its own products (underwear, t-shirts, fleece wear); contracting for the manufacture of products for other labels (L.L. Bean, for example); knitting and dyeing of cloth; and embroidery and silk-screening of shirts.
Lunch on our own included distinctly Canadian presentations: Dave had a donair poutine. Poutine is french fries layered with sauce/gravy, cheese and meat. Donair is of Turkish origin, thin-sliced and served with a sauce made of evaporated milk, vinegar, garlic and sugar.
When we met up with the caravan, we had signed up for an optional afternoon activity: Rafting the tidal bore. We thought we would ride the tide as it came into this section of the Bay of Fundy. What we rode were rapids created when the tide temporarily reverses the flow of the Shubenacadie River. It was a wild, bouncy ride. 
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