Baddeck, Nova Scotia

After leaving Ingonish Beach, we headed straight back to the Cabot Trail for the town of Baddeck, where Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) made his summer home, known as Beinn Bhreagh. Bell constructed a laboratory and boatyard at his summer home, where he conducted experiments in powered flight and hydrofoil technology, among many other things. Baddeck is also the site of the Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site which was opened to the public in 1956. We stopped in at the museum, and all of us enjoyed learning a bit more about the life of the world-famous inventor.

After touring the museum, we headed to the town center to locate the site of the drug store where, during my family road trip to Nova Scotia in 1973, I bought an ice cream cone for 10 cents and came out of the store bragging about my thrifty purchase, whereupon each and every one of my siblings stormed out of our Ford ecocline van and made a beeline into the drug store for a cone of their own.

The museum which opened in 1956

At the drugstore where I bought the 10 cent ice cream cone in 1973!