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a week on grand manan is an in expensive holiday there are no nightclubs fancy restaurants or ex clusive shops to drain your pocket- book instead there are fresh air friendly people and unsurpassed natural beauty a good way to get there is to fly to saint john or fredericton rent a car and drive to blacks harbour to catch the grand manan ferry both saint john and fredericton are served by air canada and eastern provincial airways blacks harbour is 96 km six miles off highway 1 between st stephen and saint john or 56 km 35 miles from calais me mv grand manan makes two round trips to the island each day on a regular basis and three trips when necessary theres a snack bar on board the ferry does not accept reservations so motorists are advised to be at the terminal early aerial view of halifax waterfront shopping at scotia square halifax nova scotia its great to be in halifax by claude lemieux side by side in halifax nova scotia are two shopping areas that appear to be from different centuries in a way they are historic properties on the water front is a fine restoration of historic buildings once busy with shipping activities but now transformed into an assortment of interesting shops restaurants and pubs the buildings walks and wharves cover three acres from granville street to the water front historic properties includes about 40 shops restaurants pubs and offices plus docking facilities for the famous blucnosc ii schooner and the nova scotia college of art and design there is a natural air about the whole place which has buildings dating back to the early 1800s first it is on the waters edge with a back ground of passing ships and circling gulls most restaurants and shops have salty names like the kings wharf the clipper cay the pieces of eight ientrcpot and the barn acle in the privateers warehouse theres an upper deck restaurant a middle deck lounge and a lower deck pub dont be surprised if you see and hear the properlyattired town crier bell in hand read special announce ments from a scroll haligonians and visitors love the place its a cluster of interlaced and fascinating small shops and eating places without department stores or supermarkets just across the street the ultra modern scotia square combines shop ping centre hotel apartment and office towers in what has been described as an indoor city it is the largest concentration of stores shops and office buildings in the atlantic provinces its another world a world of superlatives in total con trast to historic properties scotia square has 17 ladies wear shops 15 restaurants and fast food outlets 10 jewelry and gift shops eight home furnishings stores six shoe stores and about 50 other establishments including a depart ment store supermarker liquor store bank and travel office theres indoor parking for 2000 cars at the four- level shopping centre the square is connected to the chateau halifax a new 312room cp hotel offering fine restaurants and lounges as well as extensive con vention facilities theres indoor access to two apartment buildings from the shopping area scotia towers with 194 apartments and mackeen towers with 114 the duke barrington and cogswell towers are three impressive office buildings which arc also part of the huge complex the fourstorey trade mart building another office struc ture completes the indoor city historic properties and scotia square are within walking distance of such popular places of interest as the citadel the nova scotia museum and the public gardens halifax a city of about 225000 capital of nova scotia and one of the conti nents largest seaports is easily reached by car bus train plane or boat for general information about canada as a travel destination write the nova scotia department of tourism po box 130 halifax nova scotia b3j 2r5 d entertainers near city hall on a warm summer day halifax