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Title: The sea coast resorts of eastern Maine, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Cape Breton
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: International Steamship Company
Subjects: Seaside resorts
Publisher: (Boston, s.n.)
Contributing Library: Queen's University Library, W.D. Jordan Special Collections and Music Library
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m of royalty with him. New St. Andrews boasts its fine hotel, The Algonquin, opened inJune, 1889, to receive nearly 1,400 guests its first season, and otherimprovements of the old town, which have made this sleeping-beautyof the seaside the ideal summer resort. Few coast towns have a more favored location than St. Andrews.Long before it was thought of as a summer resort, it enjoyed a certainpatronage from pleasure-seekers from Northern New Brunswick andacross the border. Its marked characteristics led to the formation ofthe St. Andrews Land Company, who have, with their varied improve-ments, of which the new hotel and Indian Point Park are notableexamples, made the old town to blossom like the rose. The hotel stands upon an eminence overlooking the town, and 150feet above sea level. From its broad piazzas an unobstructed view ishad, disclosing the whole panorama of Passamaquoddy Bay, with theChamcook Mountains, the St. Croix River and the distant shores ofNova Scotia for a background.
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SEA COAST RESORTS. 35 Its guests enjoy a wonderful immunity from hay fever, that distressingmalady being unknown to the residents of the town, while the afflicted,even those who visit here at well-advanced stages of the disorder, findearly and complete relief. It is pleasant to write of St. Andrews. To one who has visited itthere is always much to recall with pleasure; while with the oceanvoyage from Boston, or from Portland to Eastport, as an auxiliary, nobetter medicine can be recommended the tired brain-worker, or summerhealth and pleasure-seeker, than a sojourn at this Passamaquoddy resort.There are mountains for climbing, the Chamcooks, reached in a three-mile drive from the hotel, over roads which are perfection, and at theirfeet lie a chain of clear water lakes affording fine trout fishing. Anglingin both salt and fresh water may be enjoyed here with sure result. Theyatchsman finds a paradise, and the student of history his desire. Thereare possibilities for pleasure to suit ev

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