Garth fishing outside the t@b window.
A little geography and history: Ecum Secum is a rural community on the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia, Canada. The community is tied to the fishing industry. Its name is derived from the Mi'kmaq language and means "a red house". The community is approximately 30 minutes east of Sheet Harbour and 30 minutes west of Sherbrooke. The first Europeans to settle in the Ecum Secum area were Loyalists in the 1770s.
Sherbrooke Village is an open air museum in some ways like Williamsburg, Virginia. There are approximately 30 buildings including include a working blacksmith shop, a pottery shop, a water powered lumber mill , a tea room, and several animal barns.
The Village is intended to show life in rural Nova Scotia around 1880. School children from as far away as New Brunswick travel to this place to learn how their ancestors lived.
This fine Victorian home was lived in by the general store owner and his wife.
The blacksmith demonstrates how things were made in 1880.
In the post office she shows how copies were made with a damp sheet of onion skin paper and a book press.
A young man sets type for a recipe book he is making.
Making candles with beeswax.
Queen Victoria at 18 years when she was crowned. I saw three copies of this print in the Village.
The most interesting thing is this water wheel powered by the river that runs a working sawmill.
One log at a time is sawed by one blade into boards. During a working day two logs are sawn into boards. The only power is the water turning the wheel.
The two workers need to be strong as they push the log into place and then adterards pick up the boards together to toss them out of the way to go later to the drying shack.
This is the sawmill from outside where the logs are floated on a pond to the sawmill.
We walked a ways to see an old lumber camp as well as a stamping mill where rocks were pounded to get the gold out.
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