(This page includes a lot of interesting links for residents as well as visitors. For example, if you are planning a vacation, check the list of inns and cottages, or, if you are researching the family history, see the various genealogical sources.) ABORIGINAL Micmac History ACCOMMODATIONS Captain's Quarters Cottages , Hunts Point The Dunes , Southwest Port Mouton Eagles Nest Cabins , Southwest Port Mouton Gallery Guest House , Mersey Point Hunts Point Beach Cottages, Hunts Point Lane's Privateer Inn , Liverpool Left Bank Bed and Breakfast Ocean View Cottages , Hunts Point Morton House Country Inn, Milton Port Mouton Bay Cottages , Port Mouton Quarterdeck, Summerville Summerville Beach Retreats , Summerville White Point Beach Resort , White Point Whitman Inn, Kempt ANIMALS Sounds of the World's Animals Animals & Their Tracks ARTS/CRAFTSBrown, Elizabeth (Woodpile wood carvings, Liverpool) Byrne, Brian (Spyglass Creations) Crosby, Hugh (born in Liverpool) Borgersen, Susan & Arne (Glorious Mud Studio Gallery, Port Medway) Millard, Marg (Millard's Painted Canvas) Nanny's Baby Products (Gifts, accessories for babies, toddlers made by Joy MacDonald, Mill Village) Sponagle-Taylor, Deborah (Sea People Art) Robert, Carol and Jacques The Woodcarvings & Watercolors Art Gallery, Brooklyn Associations/Organizations Queens Early Childhood Development Association Masonic Bodies in Queen's County ASTRONOMY/SPACE PROJECTS/CLIMATEAstronomy: What's Up This Month Climate Of Nova Scotia Earth Lights (composite of earth at night, including lights of Queens) Heavens Above (visible satellite passes and real-time orbit displays for any place on earth including Queens County. Also sun, moon, star info) J-Pass (predicts times a satellite will pass overhead, in Queens County or anywhere else. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Centre) Satellite Overpass Predictor Space Station User's Guide Visual Satellite Observer's Home Page BIRDSBird Songs Field Guide To Birds (an excellent site to help identify birds) Identification Tips for Canadian and U.S. Birds North American Bird Sounds Pictures of Common Canadian and U.S. Birds Songs of Common Canadian and U.S. Birds BOOKSBartleby (literature, reference, verse you can read free online) Champlain Collection (includes the Simeon Perkins diaries to read free online) Gold Fields Of Nova Scotia Free Library Online (best known authors and titles you can read free online) Markland or Nova Scotia (by Robert Randall McLeod) Online Books (20,000 old, rare, newer books you can read free online) Page By Page Books (wide selection of the best public domain books to read free online) Project Gutenburg (17,000 books you can read free online)
BUTTERFLIES Butterflies (helps identify butterflies, first by color, then details CALENDAR 2005 and other years CHURCHES Christian (Milton) CLOCK Atlantic Standard Time (also shows light and dark areas of earth) Greenwich Mean Time Time (atomic) U.S. Naval Observatory Master Clock (listen to the time) CLOTHES Joval (popular Liverpool used clothing factory outlet and a store) Computers/Internet CLUBS/ORGANIZATIONS Kinsman & Kinette Clubs (Liverpool) Kiwanis Club of Liverpool Queens County Amateur Radio Club COMPUTERSDavid Noel (management consultant, workshops, etc.) John Primrose (consulting, sales, service, networking) CONSTRUCTION Atlantic Canada Log Homes Inc . CURRENCY Currency Converter Convert from/to Canadian/U.S. and other currencies DO-IT-YOURSELF Do-It-Yourself (various tips and instructions for do-it-yourself projects) Fixit (fix it help) EMPLOYMENT Jobs/Work (Human Resources Canada) South Shore Opportunities Tourism & Culture (seasonal jobs throughout Nova Scotia) ENGINEERS & SURVEYORS GEOMAP - Surveying & Engineering Inc (Mark Whynot, P.Eng, NSLS) ENTERTAINMENT Astor Theatre , Liverpool
EVENTS Astor Theatre Liverpool Upcoming events, seating, etc Privateer Days FINANCIAL PLANNING Kevin C. Page PFP Investment Planning Counsel of Canada FISHING Tuna Fishing History (includes mention of Liverpool) Tuna Fishing History (Port Medway, Tuna Inn) FORUMS South Shore Buy/Sell LRHS 50th Anniversary in 2006 Queens Connections FROGSBullfrogs (earliest record for adult, New Grafton; earliest record for tadpoles, Caledonia) Identifying Frogs (Nova Scotia Museum site) Northern Leopard Frog (earliest Spring record, Danesville) FUEL Nova Scotia Power Corporation (facts, outage info, power bill online, etc.) GENEALOGY/HISTORY Anecdotes of Queens County Armand Wigglesworth, author--bio and ordering info Annis Family (in United States and Canada, including Queens County) Census 1901 Automated (Queens and Shelburne Counties) Congregational Burial Ground Liverpool (inscriptions) Conrad's Lost At Sea Created by Dave Conrad Down Home (lots of helpful links for Queens County research) Ellenwood, Capt. Benjamin FamilySearch (35 million names in the ancestral file) Genealogical Association of Nova Scotia Leslie (Eagle Head, some info) Lost At Sea Lots of interesting information, including Gloucester list for Nova Scotia. McGowan, Michael New Charleston Cemetery (names on gravestones) Nova Scotia Family Websites (links to) Phalen, Elenor Margaret (born 1864, Mill Village) Queens County GENWEB project Genealogy resources Reinhardt family Wentzell Genealogy Society Wigglesworth Wolfe (Eagle Head, some info) Geography National Atlas Of Canada Online
GOVERNMENT (Canada) Business Development Bank of Canada Canada Contracts Canada Electronic Directory Service (federal employees telephone numbers, addresses, etc.) Export Development Corporation Lunenburg/Queens MP Gerald Keddy (email address) Gerald Keddy Profile Small Business Information Seminars GOVERNMENT (Nova Scotia) MLA For Queens, Vicki Conrad (email) Nova Scotia (index to departments, services, etc.) Nova Scotia (Service Nova Scotia and Municipal Relations--includes motor vehicles, vital statistics, assessment services, etc.) Registry Of Deeds Registry of Joint Stocks (who needs to register, search names, etc.) Government (Region Of Queens) Lunenburg Queens Regional Development Agency Municipality of the Region of Queens (main page) Mayor John Leefe (email address) HISTORY Churches Of Christ (history including Milton and Summerville) Genealogical Dictionary (first settlers of New England before 1692) Foreign Protestant Settlement Of Nova Scotia (many descendants settled in Queens County) Hank Snow Country Music Centre, Liverpool Liverpool & Milton Railway New Englander Of Nova Scotia National Archives Of Canada North Queens Heritage House Museum (email address) Perkins House, Liverpool Privateers Of Nova Scotia 1756-1783 (article by George Mullane) Privateer Name Search (crew, owners, agents) Railway Of Canada Archives (Annapolis to Liverpool, lake obstruction) Rossignol Cultural Centre (5 galleries, 5 museums) Soldiers Memorial , Milton Soldiers Memorial , Port Mouton Virtual Museum of Canada Walking Tour of Historic Liverpool (descriptions of properties) War Veterans Monument , Liverpoo l HISTORICAL (Organizations) King's Orange Rangers (citizens in 1700's costumes, re-enactments) Mersey Heritage Society HOSPTALS QEII Health Sciences Centre, Halifax HOW & WHYHow Stuff Works The Why Files HUNTINGHunting, Trapping (Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources, hunting, trapping statistics, acts, regulations) Hunting (deer, regulations, seasons, bag limits, license fees, etc.) INDUSTRY Bowater Mersey (parent company's website) Pine Country (Pride and preservation in North Queens) LEGAL MATTERS Justices Of The Peace (able to perform marriages in Queens County) LIBRARIES/REFERANCE Dictionaries (also 230 languages, thesaurus, rhyming, etc.) Encyclozine . An encyclopedia and portal for sciences and humanities Library--Reference Sites Helps you connect to libraries (government, legal, medical, etc.) as well as sites for dictionaries, encyclopedias, statistics, maps, quotations, etc South Shore Regional Library Statistics Canada Lighthouses (of Nova Scotia, also listen to sounds --ships fog horn and bell buoy) Atlantic Lighthouse Council Coffin Island Lighthouse Fort Point Lighthouse, Liverpool Medway Head Lighthouse Port Medway Lighthouse MAPSBridgewater,NS Historical Map Quest Nova Scotia Shellfish Classification Areas South Shore MEDICAL/HEALTHAsk The Doctor Ask a question or read the questions and answers of others. This service, started five years ago in Canada, is operated by medical professionals who donate their time. Long list of topics. Drug List (clinical pharmacology, indications and dosage, side effects and drug interactions, warnings and precautions, patient information.) Mdchoice (medical information, searches more than 6,000 medical journals, online medical dictionary) Medical Records (information, etc.) MUSIC Taylor's Traditional Tune Book Mersey Band NATURE Nature (complete guide to more than 4,800 North American plants, animals) Wilderness Walks (Danielle Wharton) NAUTICAL Brooklyn Marina (information) Canadian Navy Of Yesterday And Today (by Sandy McClearn, Liverpool) Shipwrecks (some Liverpool vessels wrecked at Anegada Island, BWI) Signal Flags (meanings of international maritime signal flags) NEWS Advance (Liverpool) Bourque CBC Radio Chronicle-Herald CKBW Radio Halifax Daily News Globe & Mail Lighthouse Publishing MacLeans National Post NovaScotiaCanada New York Times Ottawa Citizen South Shore Times Time Time Canada Times Of London Toronto Star Vancouver Sun Washington Post PEOPLE (now, and in the past)Anthony, Marjorie (CAB Hall of Fame, native of Mill Village) Carr, Bill (born in Liverpool, actor, TV personality) Clark, Joan (born in Liverpool, author) Conrad, David Creed, Frederick George (inventor teletype machine, native of Mill Village) Ernst, Andrew (website) Fancy, Raymond (folk carver, Milton, 1910-1988)) Fralic, Clarence Edward (of Beach Meadows, War Veteran, Italian Camp) Gideon, Russell (1904-1985), born in Liverpool, recognized by Ebony  Magazine, from 1977 to 1985 as one of nation's 100 most influential black citizens) Hanley, Debbie (born in Liverpool 1967) Hayne, Tammi (web designer, born in Liverpool) Henderson, Joan (has website with oodles of Queens County photos) Margaret Marshall Saunders (renowned author 19th century, Milton born) Lloyd, Maurice (born in Milton, Fellow Of Canadian Institute Of Planners) Millard, Marg (personal pages) Mooers, Bubby (carver knife handles) Raddall, Thomas H. (biography, Dalhousie University inventory, photos) Raddall, Thomas H. (renowned author) Richards, Nancy Wilcox (author, former Queens County teacher) Saunders, Margaret Marshall & The Beautiful Joe Heritage Society Saunders, Margaret Marshall (Beautiful Joe, you can read it on internet) Savoie, Tina (formerly of Milton, actor, singer) Snow, Hank (obituary) Speed, Marjorie (artist, writer, piano teacher) Thompson-Wilson Barbara (impressionist artist & musician) Thorbourne, William Laurie (Resolution No. 1525 Hansard) Wigglesworth, Armand (website) Wright, Jerauld (Liverpool native, Canada's Aviation Hall Of Fame) PETS Cashmere Cats Chateau (owned by Rev. Beverley (Day) Burlock) SPCA, Queens County PICTURESImages Of Nova Scotia (including lots of old pictures of Queens County) Joan Henderson's Photos on Webshots include Queens County scenery and events. Clyde Fisher of Southwest Port Mouton takes beautiful photographs of his area and adds new ones every few days. PLACES Canadian Geographical Names (places, longitude, latitude, find out distance between any two locations, radius for list of nearby names, etc.) Nova Scotia Geographical Names (communities, lakes, rivers, maps, longitude, latitude) Flatrocks (Summerville Centre), History PLANTS Threatened Plants (Golden Crest, Ponhook) Wild Flowers Of Nova Scotia PUBLICATIONS (newspapers, magazines, online)Calgary Herald Globe & Mail Halifax Herald National Post Old Farmers Almanac Outdoor Nova Scotia Publications (links to various Canadian magazines, newspapers online) Queens County Times (online news, information, pictures) Rural Delivery (widely circulated farm and country journal published in Queens County since 1976) Times of London (England) Toronto Star Vancouver Sun RADIO STATIONSBBC News CBC Listen to the hourly news CKBW Website of the Bridgewater radio station REAL ESTATE Anne Thomson Realty Ltd. Cook's Real Estate Walt MacDonald Real Estate Ltd. Golden Horizon Drive Southwest Port Mouton RECIPES Analyze recipes (table of 7,248 foods) Fannie Farmer Cook Book Online (Recipes from this old favorite cook book) Pancake Supper Manuel (helpful for planning fundraising suppers) SOAR (Searchable Online Archive Of Recipes. Choose from more than 67,784 recipes. RECREATION/HOBBIES Corbett's Quality Outdoor Products , Liverpool Fishing (sport, charters, Liverpool Boat Charters) Liverpool Boat Charters (Robert Whynot, Brooklyn Marina) Liverpool Golf & Country Club Ponhook Lodge Campground (rentals canoes, kayaks, peddalboats) Rockhounding (collecting sites, Nova Scotia Bay of Fundy) RECYCLING Queensfreecycles local group of The Freecycling Network, an online donation service for individuals and non-profit organizations, keeping good, useable items out of the landfill by giving them away, and receiving them at no cost. South Shore Buy And Sell An online classifieds. It's free. RETAILERS Corbett's Quality Outdoor Products , Liverpool Canadian Tire (online shopping) Future Shop N.F. Douglas & Company (one of Caledonia's oldest merchants) SCHOOLS Liverpool Regional High School LRHS Connecting Mill Village Elementary North Queens Elementary Reunion 2000 (Dave Pottie's photos of LHS Reunion 2000) SEARCH ENGINES Google Metacrawler MetaGopher Super Search (big list of search engines, etc.) Yahoo SPORTSArchery (Atlantic Archery Sales International--Robert Quinn) Baseball Almanac . Corbett's Quality Outdoor Products , Liverpool Enclyclopedia Of Hockey Halifax & District Baseball Club (stories, pictures) Liverpool Baseball Club SURVEYORS/ENGINEERSGEOMAP Surveying & Engineering Inc (Mark Whynot, P.Eng, NSLS) TELEPHONE Phone Numbers (find them) Business People Phone Spell (remember them--type in a number, see what it spells) TRAVE/TOURISM Air Travel, Halifax International Arrivals and departures Bridgewater Web Cam Highway 103 North Queens Community (Maitland Bridge, Westfield, Kempt, South Brookfield Caledonia, North Brookfield, Pleasant River, New Grafton, West Caledonia, Northfield, Molega, Harmony Mills, Hibernia, Albany New) Queens County Tourism Summerville Beach (trip to Nova Scotia by couple from San Francisco) Virtual Nova Scotia (official tourism website of Province of Nova Scotia) UNIVERSITIES/COLLEGES Acadia Atlantic School of Theology Dalhousie, Halifax, NS Nova Scotia Agricultural College Nova Scotia College of Art & Design St. Francis Xavier University University College of Cape Breton University of Kings College Universite Sainte-Anne WEATHERAtlantic Wave Heights (lots of links to sites with weather images) Weather Doctor's Diary (White Point tornado in 1954) Weather Sites (links to nearly 400 North American weather sites) YOUTUBE Our Region In Motion Beach Meadows - Surf Brooklyn - A Drive Through... Greenfield - Planked Salmon Supper Kejimkujik National Park Liverpool - Charlie The Tuna Liverpool - Fire Prevention Week Parade Liverpool - Jason Wolfe biking Liverpool - Privateer Days Liverpool - Privateer Days - Re-Enactment Liverpool - Ukulele Kitchen Party - Ukulele Mike Milton Falls Port Mouton - Matthew Atlantic Western Head - Big Waves Western Head - Surfing Western Head - Surfing - After The Storm White Point - Surfing