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Rh There is one such house "past the hawthorne bush and next to the forge" in Barrington Passage, a village of white cottages and dark firs facing the island of Cape Sable at the southernmost point of Nova Scotia. And there are others at near-by Lockeport and Port Medway, and in towns on Digby Neck, at Cheticamp far up in Cape Breton, at "Northeast" in the Margaree Valley, at Montague, Prince Edward Island, at Lakeside, New Brunswick, and at Arichat on an Acadian isle, twenty miles out in the Atlantic.

Frequented hotels at Liverpool and Bridgewater, Chester and Hubbards on the eastward shore of Nova Scotia, at Weymouth, Digby, Smith's Cove, Annapolis, Wolfville, Windsor and Parrsboro on the Fundy side, at Baddeck and Whycocomagh on the Bras d'Or Lakes, at Sussex, Hampton, Loch Lomond, Rothesay, St. Stephen, St. George, St. Martins, Woodstock, Grand Falls, St. Leonards and Chatham in New Brunswick, and at Brackley Beach, Hampton, Stanhope, Rustico, Tracadie and Alberton, Prince Edward Island, are elaborations of the country inn, with ampler accommodation for summer guests and more modern equipment, and, regrettably, a more stereotyped cuisine. It is a commentary on the tourist requirements peculiar to this region that large hotels dependent upon fashionable patronage are not as a rule successful. Several houses of this sort have closed their doors within recent years. An exception is