Windsor Travel Guide

Welcome to Windsor!

Set at the eastern gate of the bountiful Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia, the small picturesque town of Windsor is best known as the birthplace of hockey, reputedly first played here as early as 1800 and highlighted today in the Hockey Heritage Centre. Hurley on ice was first referred to in writings by Thomas Chandler Haliburton, son of Windsor and North America's first acclaimed humorist. His Sam Slick stories feature a fast-talking Yankee clockmaker whose phrases like “It's raining cats and dogs” are still popular today. The town celebrates the Sam Slick Days, an annual three-day festival the first weekend of August. The area is also famed for the Fort Edward Historic Site and Nova Scotia's Bay of Fundy, home to the world's highest tides and dramatic red sandstone cliffs surrounding the bay. For outdoor enthusiasts, the ski hill of Martock is just outside the town, offering ski slopes in the winter months and self-guided mountain biking trails in the summer, and the intersections of the Evangeline and Glooscap Trails and the Avon and St. Croix Rivers at Windsor mean that mountains, water and trails are only minutes away.

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