{"id":7361,"date":"2021-07-06T13:12:08","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T13:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visitingnovascotia.com\/?p=7361"},"modified":"2021-07-06T13:24:20","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T13:24:20","slug":"port-royal-habitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.visitingnovascotia.com\/?p=7361","title":{"rendered":"Port-Royal Habitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3AsBn5z\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7362 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.visitingnovascotia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/DSC9061portRoyal_680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.visitingnovascotia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/DSC9061portRoyal_680.jpg 680w, http:\/\/www.visitingnovascotia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/DSC9061portRoyal_680-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Click on the above image to enter an exploration of the first permanent French settlement in North America.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Port-Royal National Historic Site is a wonderful place in which to step back into 1605, when the first French settlers had arrived and were establishing a settlement as well as a relationship with the Mi&#8217;kmaq people who lived here. \u00a0A previous attempt at settlement elsewhere had already failed. \u00a0What made this place more successful? There are guides, dressed in the clothes of the time, on hand to answer that question. \u00a0This is a place to visit rain or shine.<\/p>\n<p>When you are driving to it, along the Annapolis River, image what it would have felt like before highways and many communities, when sails from a tall ship could be seen over the grass and through the trees. \u00a0News from home? \u00a0Provisions and new people to talk to? \u00a0The British? \u00a0The location gives you a feel for what that must have felt like.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3AsBn5z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3AsBn5z noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-7375 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.visitingnovascotia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Port-Royal-Interactive.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.visitingnovascotia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Port-Royal-Interactive.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.visitingnovascotia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Port-Royal-Interactive-300x107.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.visitingnovascotia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Port-Royal-Interactive-768x274.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The VRs (360\u00b0 scenes) that are part of the above tour were shot over the course of a number of visits. Each visit, we learned something new. \u00a0Each guide knows the history, but has their own specialty and particular interests, so different insight. If you run across a costumed person in the tour, click on them to learn more about the times. \u00a0(There are 3 movies to discover.)<\/p>\n<p>More information on visiting and on the history can be found<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pc.gc.ca\/en\/lhn-nhs\/ns\/portroyal\"><span style=\"color: orange;\">here.<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Step back into 1605 and learn about the first permanent French settlement in North America. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitingnovascotia.com\/?p=7361\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7363,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.visitingnovascotia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7361"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.visitingnovascotia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.visitingnovascotia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.visitingnovascotia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.visitingnovascotia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7361"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.visitingnovascotia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7523,"href":"http:\/\/www.visitingnovascotia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7361\/revisions\/7523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.visitingnovascotia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.visitingnovascotia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.visitingnovascotia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.visitingnovascotia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}