Pictures of Antigonish and Pictou

I have not had the chance to look though the articles and the websites of the towns yet but I have had a look at some pictures of the two towns.

They both look very funky and they are both close to the sea. Though Pictou is closer to the sea than Antigonish, it is not that Antigonish is far away either (well within walking distance). Thankfully the towns are not that far apart so I could always visit them when I get an opportunity to get across to Canada.

Pictures of Antigonish:

 

  

  

  

 

Pictures of Pictou:

 

  

  

  

 

Comparing Antigonish and Pictou

Here are the official websites for Pictou and Antigonish:

Pictou
Antigonish

At least the main advantage of these websites is that they are in English, and while I would love to be able to speak French and understand written French. I sadly cannot do that at the moment.

I think I am most drawn to Nova Scotia at the moment. I think that is partly due to the Scottish influence there. I do still love lots of aspects of Scotland so it will be great to still have the connection to what I see as my home country. It will also be great for my younglings to have a connection to the country that they were born in and are being raised in.

I know that I do not want to live in Halifax as I am not interested in living in a city. However it will be good not too far away from it so that we are able to visit it. I did check and it looks pretty easy to get there from both Pictou and Antigonish. Antigonish has an advantage as there are buses that have services to Halifax.

I think what I am going to have to do is have a look at the information for both of the towns and work from there which one seems to be the best place to start out (there is always the possibility of moving within Canada once we have moved across)

Other places to investigate

I have been thinking that while I am struggling to find out about Port-Cartier, I would also have a look at some areas that I can find some information about.

They are areas that I had already thought about. The first one is Pictou and the second one is Antigonish. I did find a problem with Pictou when I looked at it a while ago. I found out that there is no public transport available. I will not dismiss it though as at some point I could well take my driving test, so that would no longer be a problem.

Here is the Wikipedia articles on them.

Pictou
Antigonish

There is something good about the both of them. I have got a soft spot for Pictou as that was the first place that I looked when I thought about moving across.

Photographs of Port-Cartier

I thought I would have a look and see if I could get some pictures of Port-Cartier. This is what I have got so far.

The pictures that I have seen so far look funky and of course there is beautiful scenery. I know that you cannot judge a place by pictures alone, but I think it is nice to see them as well as trying to find out as much information as possible about. Sadly though I am not sure that I will be able to find out much as there is not a lot on Wikipedia and their Website is only in French.

 

 

 

 

 

 

And the pin fell on...

Port-Cartier.

Well I did not really use a pin, I used my finger I did not want to put lots of holes in my map) It took a few attempts before I got this as many times I was putting my fingers on mountains. I am all for getting back to nature, but I think that is taking it a bit far. In the end what I had to do was find the nearest town to my finger.

I will now have to find out what I can about Port-Cartier.

This is the Wikipedia article about it (sadly that is not that helpful)

Port-Cartier

This is the towns website. It will be interesting finding my way around this, as it is in French.

Ville de Port-Cartier

This is what it looks like on Google earth:

Stick a pin in the map

I wonder if this would be a good way of deciding a place to move to. I could then look at it on Google earth and find out information on Wikipedia. If it does not seem suitable I could always start from the beginning with a pin. It could be fun and I have got a big enough map to work. I do think that I will be keeping in the more southern areas of Canada. The wild north is truly stunning but even that is too wild for me.

Having said that, I really hope that I get the opportunity to visit them in either the spring or summer. Though there is a point where you get so far up north that there is not really a spring as such, rather than it getting less wild before it gets hot.

I have enjoyed looking at Google earth though. I think it is a great way of looking at how a place looks like from above. I know that you cannot judge a place from this but it nice seeing it. I love looking at maps so this is just wonderful for me. For me it is the ultimate map.

Even more links

I decided to use Google today to find some more links and I have got some for information on the education system, the health system, recycling and emigrating as a self employed person.

Education system:

Education in Canada

Health system:

Canadian health system

Recycling:

Recycling in Canada

Self employed emigrating:

Emigrating as a self employed person