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Canada’s best kept secret

We’re long-time subscribers and look forward to receiving each new issue. We were pleased to see the Atlantic provinces get represented in “Canada Room with a View” (June/July ’21). We locals know how wonderful living and cottaging in the Atlantic provinces is: changing tides, fresh seafood, and fresh salty air. Based on the record number of people who have bought real estate in Atlantic Canada over the past year, we expect there will be a lot more cottagers like the ones in your story ready to discover one of Canada’s best kept cottaging secrets. Shhh…don’t tell too many people!—Brian and Brenda Rendell, Northumberland Strait, N.S.

Disrobe and conquer

In response to “So Close, Yet So Fair” (Zim Weighs In, May ’21), while my grandparents didn’t have a cottage, they did have a power boat that they would moor in what they considered to be their own private bay

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