Such a beautiful day for a drive ❤ love the contrast with the old picture for the grand hotel. Enjoy watching the pictures of the museum , full of old stuff and memories ❤
Interesting and unique history with a connection to Nova Scotia, really cool! Nice share of the buildings and their historic photos. A beautiful sunny day with lots of nice trees, fun jazzy music! The Old Post Office building is especially intriguing to see. 👍👍
Well I never knew that Chris. Been there so many times and unaware of where the name came from. Love the Canadian connection. After the war (WWII) many Europeans including Dutch moved to either Canada, Australia or New Zealand. Some of my relations chose Canada. Looks like Canadians liked New Zealand too. One of my highlights on RUclips is driving round New Zealand with you. Ka pai Chris, Whakawhetai koe! 🇳🇱🙋♀🥝❤ps. Shared this (I usually do🤣)
Beautiful drive Chris! It’s great to see Main Street now, and then see the old historical photos! Quite some history, and a great name for the town! 👌👍👍
Hi Jennifer, yes it’s a town so typical of our many rural service centres dotted across NZ. Although in Auckland terms probably the least successful fringe Auckland town to boom as a satellite suburb. There is a cafe in the middle of the place called “Mr Bon” (don’t ask me why) that has all the old favourite cakes, slices and sandwiches from days gone by at very reasonable prices, it was a huge favourite of my mum when we were out that way. 😀
Now there's a great Nova Scotia connection!! Got my attention pretty quick on this one! lol Leave it to him to find a place with water to establish a timber mill. Probably got tired of seeing nothing by coal mines!! LOL There's quite a good amount of information on the National Library of New Zealand site. With such a winding river, I wonder if the area has ever experienced some hard floods. A great tour and history lesson for sure!!
Love to know the history of the town and enjoy the drive 😊
Such a beautiful day for a drive ❤ love the contrast with the old picture for the grand hotel. Enjoy watching the pictures of the museum , full of old stuff and memories ❤
Interesting and unique history with a connection to Nova Scotia, really cool! Nice share of the buildings and their historic photos. A beautiful sunny day with lots of nice trees, fun jazzy music! The Old Post Office building is especially intriguing to see. 👍👍
Well I never knew that Chris. Been there so many times and unaware of where the name came from. Love the Canadian connection. After the war (WWII) many Europeans including Dutch moved to either Canada, Australia or New Zealand. Some of my relations chose Canada. Looks like Canadians liked New Zealand too. One of my highlights on RUclips is driving round New Zealand with you. Ka pai Chris, Whakawhetai koe! 🇳🇱🙋♀🥝❤ps. Shared this (I usually do🤣)
Beautiful drive Chris! It’s great to see Main Street now, and then see the old historical photos! Quite some history, and a great name for the town! 👌👍👍
Hi Jennifer, yes it’s a town so typical of our many rural service centres dotted across NZ. Although in Auckland terms probably the least successful fringe Auckland town to boom as a satellite suburb. There is a cafe in the middle of the place called “Mr Bon” (don’t ask me why) that has all the old favourite cakes, slices and sandwiches from days gone by at very reasonable prices, it was a huge favourite of my mum when we were out that way. 😀
@ Mr Bon sounds luke a place we’d enjoy too! 😄
Now there's a great Nova Scotia connection!! Got my attention pretty quick on this one! lol Leave it to him to find a place with water to establish a timber mill. Probably got tired of seeing nothing by coal mines!! LOL There's quite a good amount of information on the National Library of New Zealand site. With such a winding river, I wonder if the area has ever experienced some hard floods. A great tour and history lesson for sure!!
Cool connection. I didn’t realise coal was or is the big thing in Nova Scotia .😀
Thank you for the lovely drive. Wishing you a wonderful weekend 😊
Thanks a lot 😀