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Georgetown area growing

asa vacation locality

By 1 W. LAVERS With the tourist season’ uSain with us and with a great er number of visitors expected than in any previous year, Geor-

‘\getown is looking forward to wel-

ing new. visitors~in greater

Dumb-ers. .s weil.as many ior-

mer. Georgetownians and their fami come home to this beautiful” town. -

jon the- Cardigan,

“River: Poxy the Harbour’s- entrance; each on the Cardigan ver; Owen's Point™on the sce- ic Brudénell River and numer- ous good locations on. the Mon-

tagu. River, all are’famous as.

spots, where the angler has a better. than average chance to!

s;--who- year—afte year Hand the big one.

For those who° like to sail by boat to the open. sea .and ‘try

.tertain and please its - visitors.

“three rivers which flow into the

' Georgetown offers much to en-—-their_luck at-cod_fishing and for mackerel, now done quite ex- Numerous, beaches are located tensively with a fly rod. Using on the: boundaries: of* this- fam- ous ‘harbour and along with the Gulf waters off Georgetown Har- bour.-' “harbour provides the-best in For quité a number of years swimming and bathing, ‘for, those? now more and. more pérsens are who indulge in this form of sport fishing for mackerel off ‘this for their - favourite, relaxation» port with rod and reel and they For the ‘tneler there are many are convinced that this provides

bait, few places can surpass the ~

town is situated the Provincia

Government Park at Brudenell,

‘with excellent tenting: and trail- er facilitiés. Also on the- banks

of the Brudeneli River are locat-

ed DeRodma Cabins, named. atft- er the famous Frenchman De-

Roma, who under the French |

Regime ‘settled at what is now

known as-Shaw’s_Point-in Geor-+

getown Harbour and- where to- day there is erected a monu- “ment to. mark. his-colonizing--ef- forts. Also on the Brudenell are the Riverview, Cottages.

On the Cardigan River is locat- ed the ultra-modern .. Garrett -Tourist Court and the new and novel Log Cabin. Patk; ~where visitors’ can find - accommoda- tions, hou in modern ‘cabins and beautifully built log cabins on the banks of a lovely dam

\dand is yearly attracting. more

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of interesting and antique tems, mm Georgetown are located f De erhae +. Page .5-B Franging over a wide and varied four churches, for the visitors to ; ; a ——————— | per.ca o. our history worship in and each has its his- | Historical points of ‘interest toric.‘link with the. past history are many within a short’ dist- of this old and Capital Town of | ance: of- this old.Capital Town.’ Kings County. | The now famous Brudenell Is- Approximately: threé miles | See 2 ae ee

visitors to. view its, beautiful mo- from Georgetown an excellent nument and histotic <cmetery,; M€W olf course 1s located —ad- where are buried ‘hii early jacent to Brudenell Park, which

‘Scottish pionee: ttled the is fast increasing in populaity. land.,on both banks the Bru-| For the hunter, who- in the denéfl River. _ This ‘int ti early autumn likes to take to the

and _history-steepéd island js woods in search..of partridge;.' readily accessible by car . and pheasants or rabbits ‘or prefers jsets like a jewel in the center of the early morning rise and drive ‘the Brudenell. to a duck or goose hunters Atthe-mouth of Georgetown blind, the Georgetown area with ‘Harbour is located a small. Is- Hits bays and rivers and tidal flats: land, connected to the main- Provides some of the best hunt: land by a-sand-bar, this-island ing terrain in: the province, ~\.. now .known as Poxy Island, ap- “Above all and. perhaps thé, pears on the Marine Charts as most sought after of all by the Thrumcap Spit. new visitors. is the famous Is- Legend has it that \at some land hospitatity~and here “inthe point in the, Island’s higtory that ,Town of Géorgetown, as indeed the Micmac Indians in/the area in-the whole pfovince, can be contacted_the dreaded small-_found this hospitality. and -warm- pox and were ,isolated on this th which makes a home away small Island and the story has from home and gives the visitor | it that many are buried there. something of a’ new- -found “hu-. An old and very historic ceme- man companionship to take with

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