The lovely village of Baddeck Nova Scotia. The town has a great atmosphere to include its restaurants and hotels to accommodate the many visitors each year. Its harbor setting is wonderful, and it is the home of Gwynn and Kenny Shaw who were amazing hosts during our visit.
If you have time, you can cruise the harbor and enjoy a great lunch afterwards.
It is also the home of the Alexander Graham Bell Museum. In 1885, the Bell family had a vacation home in Baddeck. He then built a complex of buildings including a new laboratory named Beinn Bhreagh (Gaelic), named after Bell ancestral highlands.
Although Bell was famous for the invention of the telephone, his work in Baddeck was mainly focused on the Aviation career field.
You can see the harbor directly from the interior seating area of the museum.
The Silver Dart, the first powered, heavier-than-air machine to fly in Canada; designed and built by the Aerial Experiment Assn under Alexander Graham Bell, a flight enthusiast since boyhood. Baddeck NS has no airfield so where you think it was flown from? You guessed it, frozen ice on the lake.
Original Photo of the Silver Dart. The Aerial Experiment Assn was composed of Alexander Graham Bell, John Alexander Douglas, Frederick W. Baldwin. Glenn Curtis and U.S. Army Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge were also members.
Most Americans know Alexander Graham Bell as an inventor of the telephone. But few know that his central interest in life was education for deaf children or that he was one of the strongest proponents of oralism in the United States. Oralism is the system of teaching deaf people to communicate by the use of speech and lip reading rather than sign language. Bell and his father before him studied the physiology of speech.
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