Candlelight Graveyard Tours, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia

05/22/2023

02/14/2023

02/03/2023

ARCTIC AIRMASS ~ PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR FURRY FRIENDS ARE SAFE AND WARM INSIDE!!! This Afternoon: Temperature falling to Minus 16 (Wind chill Minus 29). Risk of frostbite. Tonight: Low of Minus 25 (Wind chill Minus 41) Frostbite in minutes! Here's a link to the weather warning and full forecast: https://weather.gc.ca/city/pages/ns-2_metric_e.html/

12/15/2022

You can still book your Christmas Party at The Crow's Nest - Hillsburn and The Crow's Nest - Digby. They have a terrific selection of great options for your Christmas Party Event. For a Schedule of Holiday Events, or to view the 2022 Holiday Explorer, visit www.ExploreAnnapolisRoyal.com/Holiday_2022.pdf

12/15/2022

THANK YOU to Santa’s Elf who left three lovely Christmas stars on our front porch. Your thoughtfulness and kindness made our day. Merry Christmas! 😀🎄❤️

12/08/2022

12/05/2022

The intricate cast iron fence at Fort Anne National Historic Site of Canada's Garrison Graveyard was built by Monro & O'Neill of Halifax in 1870. Special thanks to Nora Curtin for sharing this photo. "The whole town was shimmering in the sunshine. Glad I had my phone handy," she remarked. For Holiday Happenings and What to See & Do in the Annapolis Royal Area, download your free copies of the EXPLORER GUIDE and HOLIDAY EXPLORER at www.ExploreAnnapolisRoyal.com

11/23/2022

Be certain to congratulate Baintons Tannery Outlet / Mad Hatter Bookstore on their 40th Anniversary, and plan to attend their SIP & SHOP PARTY on November 25 between 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm.
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11/18/2022

0:00 - Intro2:18 - Alan’s Background/Growing Up8:14 - Deciding to Make Annapolis Royal Home8:55 - Purchasing the Lighthouse11:20 - Creating the Oqwa’titek Am...

11/16/2022

GO ARTEMIS! We’re one step closer to the moon, and we both have special memories of the launch and landing in 1969. Our names are on board, and we received our ARTEMIS 1 badge shortly after blastoff this morning which occurred at 2:47:44 AM AST. In case you missed it, here’s the link to NASA's coverage. (If you want liftoff only, go to the 3:16:55 mark to pick up the launch at T-10 seconds): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMLD0Lp0JBg

ARTEMIS 1 is an uncrewed test flight that launched the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket to send the Orion spacecraft around the moon and back to test the system and hardware before future flights with astronauts.

If all goes well, NASA will put astronauts on the next mission, Artemis II, which will orbit around the moon, maybe as early as 2024. A human landing on the moon could come as early as 2025. This would be the first person on the lunar surface since the last Apollo mission in 1972.

It will take ARTEMIS 1 nearly a week to reach the moon, 240,000 miles (386,000 kilometres) away. After zipping closely around the moon, the capsule will enter a distant orbit with a far point of 38,000 miles (61,000 kilometres). That will position Orion 280,000 miles (450,000 kilometres) from Earth, farther than Apollo. Orion's flight is set to last 25 days from its liftoff this morning at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to its splashdown in the Pacific on December 11, 2022.

In Greek mythology, Artemis is Apollo's twin sister. They were the divine archers born to Leto and Zeus.

11/10/2022

Annapolis Royal Legion REMEMBRANCE DAY SERVICE ~ The Annapolis Royal Legion, Branch #21 would like to cordially invite you to the Remembrance Day Service and Luncheon on Friday, November 11th, 2022.

After the last two years of modified services, the Legion is happy to announce that they will hold their traditional Remembrance Day Service this year, thanks in great part to their hard-working First Responders!

Unlike the previous two years during the COVID-19 outbreak, this year’s service will be held in the Annapolis Royal Community Centre Auditorium, with seating for ±220 persons. The Colours will be marched from within the building to the main stage in the auditorium. The Legion will also host the Annapolis Basin Community Band for music during the service.
Wreath laying will consist of “Official” Wreaths being laid first, followed by wreath laying by the public at the end of the ceremony.

There will be a full buffet luncheon after the ceremony, provided by the Annapolis Royal Legion. In appreciation of their service, all Military Members in uniform will receive a free beverage ticket from the Legion for the event.

11/06/2022

First sunset after rolling back the clocks ~ Nov. 6, 2022, 17.8 degrees C at 5:22 pm. www.ExploreAnnapolisRoyal.com

11/03/2022

CONGRATULATIONS to all of our 14 WINNERS! (13 + 1 for Good Luck) www.ExploreAnnapolisRoyal.com/Haunting-Tales

11/03/2022

There is always something fun happening at King's Theatre, Annapolis Royal. For more to see and do in the Annapolis Royal Area, download the Explorer Guide at www.ExploreAnnapolisRoyal.com

10/31/2022

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! www.ExploreAnnapolisRoyal.com/Haunting-Tales

10/31/2022

10/30/2022

10/30/2022

10/28/2022

The Explorer Official Visitors Guide provides tourist information about Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, and Bay of Fundy Area. Maps, attractions, events, accommodations, candlelight graveyard tours, historic district, Acadian, historic gardens, restaurants.

10/27/2022

10/25/2022

10/25/2022

10/24/2022

Coming Soon! … THE SPIRIT OF THE SIR FENWICK WILLIAMS OF KARS HOUSE ~ HAUNTING TALES From Annapolis Royal (Episode 3) Oct. 25 on Explorer Guide **Plus** "LIKE & SHARE” this post for our HALLOWEEN CONTEST. JOIN Candlelight Graveyard Tours, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia’s Alan Melanson and The Historical Association of Annapolis Royal’s Tammy Andrews-Tupper for ONLINE GHOST STORIES, Prizes and Halloween Fun on Explorer Guide’s page, Tuesdays & Thursdays, October 18, 20, 25 & 27, 2022. Be sure to “Like” our Explorer Guide page. You won’t want to miss anything! Here’s the link for THE PHANTOM DRUMMER (Episode 1) from Oct. 18: https://www.facebook.com/ExplorerGuide/videos/629823072203501/
Here's the link for THE GHOST OF EMILY (Episode 2) from Oct. 20: https://www.facebook.com/ExplorerGuide/videos/496095599069846/ Enjoy!

10/23/2022

mapannapolis, an Annapolis County volunteer non-profit, will bring in ground-penetrating radar to Garrison Graveyard at Fort Anne National Historic Site of Canada to search for graves of Black Loyalist descendants long thought to have been buried there.
Mapannapolis is partnering with Parks Canada Halifax on the project. Micha Cromwell, who heads up the Mapannapolis committee conducting the search, met with Sara Beanlands of Boreas Heritage Consulting Inc. Oct. 11, with Oct. 24 being set as the search date.
“We’re going to be doing ground-penetrating radar on a section of the Garrison Graveyard because we think there may be Black Loyalist descendants who are buried there, but the graves are unmarked,” she said.
Local church records and oral history indicate that early Black Loyalists, like Rose Fortune, were buried in Fort Anne National Historic Site’s Garrison Graveyard. While a general idea of where those graves is known, it will take ground-penetrating radar to pinpoint them.
“That’s our biggest focus right now,” Cromwell, a Black Loyalist descendant herself, said recently of the GPR project. “Our focus and our starting point is investigating that gravesite because it hasn’t really been given the recognition – there’s no grave markers. It’s kind of like a forgotten-about section. We want to investigate it and see what else is there. So that’s kind of our focal point right now.”

BOREAS HERITAGE
In 2018, Boreas Heritage Consulting worked with Mapannapolis and Parks Canada to successfully locate lost Acadian graves at Fort Anne.
Heather LeBlanc, Mapannapolis project designer, said the Oct. 24 search will be the first project of the new committee headed by Cromwell.
"Our aim is to trace the story of Black Loyalist descendants in the county," she said, adding that the public is invited to watch the process.
Ground-penetrating radar works by sending an electromagnetic pulse into the soil and then recording the echoes that result from buried objects. It can also detect variations in the composition of the soil itself, for instance indicating whether or not that soil has been disturbed.
Boreas Heritage will conduct a grid search using a machine that looks much like a lawn mower.

GRAVESTONE CONSERVATION
The GPR search follows a recent weeklong gravestone conservation workshop at Fort Anne where Parks Canada experts worked with Mapannapolis, The Historical Association of Annapolis Royal, and students from Annapolis West Education Centre to help clean and conserve gravestones.
Cromwell was one of the volunteers at the workshop and participated as students worked to clean two of only four Black Loyalist descendent headstones at the national historic site, although it is believed there are at least 25 Black Loyalist Descendants buried there.
“Basically we’re looking at Black Loyalists history, Black Loyalist descendants – where they went,” she said recently. “We just think it’s important to kind of investigate that history, and highlight that history. So that’s the basics of the project.”
Boreas Heritage will be onsite at Fort Anne Oct. 24 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.conducting their search. The public is welcome to observe. The Historical Association of Annapolis Royal's Alan Melanson will also be on hand to conduct a tour of the graveyard for students from Middleton like he did for AWEC students during the gravestone conservation workshop earlier this month.

Photo by Andrew Tolson:
Parks Canada conservator Antoine Pelletier, right, works with Mapannapolis volunteers, students from Annapolis West Education Centre, and members of Mapannapolis's Black Loyalist Descendants Committee during a gravestone conservation workshop Oct. 7 at Fort Anne National Historic Site. Third from right is Micha Cromwell who heads up the committee delving into the lives of descendants of Black Loyalists. On Oct. 24 ground-penetrating radar will be used at Fort Anne in the search for their graves.

10/20/2022

10/19/2022

SPECIAL LIVE SHOWS ~ Coming Soon to King's Theatre, Annapolis Royal. For more visit www.kingstheatre.ca/events

10/19/2022

Be on the lookout for THE GHOST OF EMILY ~ HAUNTING TALES From Annapolis Royal (Episode 2) Oct. 20 on Explorer Guide **Plus** "LIKE & SHARE” this post for our HALLOWEEN CONTEST. JOIN Candlelight Graveyard Tours, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia’s Alan Melanson and The Historical Association of Annapolis Royal’s Tammy Andrews-Tupper for ONLINE GHOST STORIES, Prizes and Halloween Fun on Explorer Guide’s page, Tuesdays & Thursdays, October 18, 20, 25 & 27, 2022. Be sure to “Like” our Explorer Guide page. You won’t want to miss anything! Here’s the link for THE PHANTOM DRUMMER (Episode 1) from Oct. 18. Enjoy! 🎃👻😃https://www.facebook.com/ExplorerGuide/videos/629823072203501/

10/17/2022

STARTS TOMORROW, OCT. 18 ~ HAUNTING TALES from Annapolis Royal ... **Plus** ... "LIKE & SHARE" HALLOWEEN CONTEST ~ "Like & Share" this post and JOIN Candlelight Graveyard Tours, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia’s Alan Melanson and The Historical Association of Annapolis Royal’s Tammy Andrews-Tupper for ONLINE GHOST STORIES, Prizes and Halloween Fun on Explorer Guide’s page, Tuesdays & Thursdays, October 18, 20, 25 & 27, 2022. First Episode, “The Phantom Drummer”, drops this Tuesday. Be sure to “Like” Explorer Guide's page! 🎃👻😃

10/16/2022

LAUNCHING THIS TUESDAY~ HAUNTING TALES from Annapolis Royal ... **Plus** ... "LIKE & SHARE" HALLOWEEN CONTEST ~ "Like & Share" this post and JOIN Candlelight Graveyard Tours, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia’s Alan Melanson and The Historical Association of Annapolis Royal’s Tammy Andrews-Tupper for ONLINE GHOST STORIES, Prizes and Halloween Fun on Explorer Guide’s page, Tuesdays & Thursdays, October 18, 20, 25 & 27, 2022. First Episode, “The Phantom Drummer”, drops this Tuesday. Be sure to “Like” Explorer Guide's page! 🎃👻😃

10/15/2022

HAUNTING TALES from Annapolis Royal ... **Plus** ... "LIKE & SHARE" HALLOWEEN CONTEST ~ "Like & Share" this post and JOIN Candlelight Graveyard Tours, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia’s Alan Melanson and The Historical Association of Annapolis Royal’s Tammy Andrews-Tupper for ONLINE GHOST STORIES, Prizes and Halloween Fun on Explorer Guide’s page, Tuesdays & Thursdays, October 18, 20, 25 & 27, 2022. First Episode, “The Phantom Drummer”, drops this Tuesday. Be sure to “Like” Explorer Guide's page! 🎃👻😃