Day 4 Moncton NB to Sydney NS

 Sep 7 Moncton NB to Sydney NS

WEATHER  Sunny TEMP 14 - 22C (57 - 71F)

We didn't bother leaving the hotel until 10:30 and then stopped in downtown Moncton to walk around.

It's easy to show both official languages!

Mural by Patrick Mcfarlane

The Bell Aliant Tower, formerly known as the Aliant Tower and older still, the NBTel Tower, is a 127-metre-high (417 ft) tower of reinforced concrete located in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. It is used to provide directional radio services. It is the tallest structure in Moncton and the tallest freestanding structure in Atlantic Canada.

Rubin’s Ltd. Mural is designated a Local Historic Place for being Moncton’s only public installation of renowned Quebec artist, Jordi Bonet.

Rubin’s Ltd Mural, entitled “Explosion”, remains one of the largest pieces of ceramic work of this type in eastern Canada. Jordi Bonet, who was a native of Barcelona, Spain, spent the final 25 years of his life in Quebec, before succumbing to leukemia in 1979 at the age of 47. His ceramic, cement, bronze and aluminum murals that proliferated the globe caught the attention of contemporaries such as Salvador Dali. Although much of his work was in sacred and liturgical art, the mural in Moncton is an example of one of Bonet’s secular commissions. This mural, commissioned by the Rubin brothers in 1962 for the façade of their newly renovated department store, Rubin’s Ltd., has remained an essential element of the streetscape of Main Street since its unveiling.

The Capitol Theatre (French: Théâtre Capitol) is an 780-seat, restored 1920s-era vaudeville house on Main Street that serves as the centre for cultural entertainment for the city. Designed by René-Arthur Fréchet in 1920, it was rebuilt by Fréchet in 1926 after it burned. Having been converted to a cinema early in its history, the theatre was purchased by the City of Moncton in 1991, restored to its original look commencing in 1992, and was officially reopened as a performance space in 1993. It hosts the productions of Theatre New Brunswick and The Atlantic Ballet Theatre of Canada, as well as symphony orchestra and dance performances.

Marc Chouinard, the long-time manager of Moncton's Capitol Theatre, died after a short battle with cancer at the age of 62.

Chouinard, who has been the general manager of the theatre for 14 years, is remembered as a champion of the arts by his friends and colleagues.

The Transcript Building is designated as a Local Historic Place because it is an expression of the Italianate architecture and for its level of preservation. In 1897, John T. Hawke purchased the land and built on the same site as the former wooden Transcript building. In 1900, he built a brick structure with a prominent three-story capped tower.

The Transcript Building is recognized for its importance in the development of journalism in Moncton. Although not the first daily paper in Moncton, the Moncton Transcript offered a new, and often oppositional, source of information and editorial opinion. Among the editors of the Moncton Transcript paper, John T. Hawke, the owner, was its most colourful. The Moncton Transcript, and later the Moncton Times and Transcript, published its daily paper out of this location until relocating in 1960.

Market

City Hall

MIQUE MICHELLE(ONTARIO, CA)

Time to get on the road. Welcome to Nova Scotia.

Nova Scotia does great signs.

Why? Click here to see our visit to Springhill where the mining disasters took place.

Okay...

Denmark license plate.

Indeed this was slow as there was an RV leading the way going 80 km.

Welcome to Cape Breton.

We'll be coming back here tomorrow.

More bilingual signs - Gaelic and English!

Holiday Inn Waterfront from our window.

Day 1 Toronto to Victoriaville QC

Day 2 Victoriaville to Edmundston NB

Day 3 Edmundston to Moncton NB