Brookside Wilderness Cabins
20 Field Rd B0M1S0 Apple River, NS, Canada

Tired of sitting home? How about a weekend get-away at Brookside? Quiet,peaceful, lots to see and do or just enjoy being away from it all. Close to many beaches... to explore, or try fishing in the little brook at your back door! The Eatonville day park is just 20 minutes away, take a stroll on the trail and see first hand the 3 sisters! See more

thought I would post this again, thanks again to Jeff!

hard to believe this was once there, So much history in this area

WELCOME TO BROOKSIDE WILDERNESS CABINS, WE ARE A SMALL FAMILY BUSINESS LOCATED IN APPLE RIVER, CUMBERLAND COUNTY, NOVA SCOTIA. WE HAVE 3 OFF GRID CABINS BESIDE A LITTLE STREAM, VERY QUIET PEACEFUL PLACE TO JUST RELAX FOR A FEW DAYS, WE ARE CLOSE TO THE GEO SITES AND CAPE CHIGNECTO PARK. LOTS OF BEACHES TO EXPLORE, PLACES TO EAT AND ATV TRAILS TOO! THE CABINS COME EQUIPED WITH EVERYTHING YOU WILL NEED, YOU JUST HAVE TO BRING A COOLER AND FOOD, BBQ, PROPANE CAMP STOVE AND BUTANE CAMP STOVE TO COOK ON OR USE THE FIRE PITS TO COOK, UP TO YOU! THERE ARE BATTERY LITS AT ALL CABINS IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO HEAR THE GENERATOR RUNNING BUT THEY ARE WIRED AND COFFEE MAKER IS THERE. WE SUPPLY THE WATER BUT YOU CAN BRING YOUR OWN DRINKING WATER. OUTSIDE TOILETS BUT VERY CLEAN AND I WORK HARD TO MAKE THEM SMELL NICE!

YUP, Nothing more needs to be said

From our house to yours, wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Sophie would like to wish everyone a merry christmas, she misses meeting all of her friends and hopes everyone is staying safe and well.

Wishing everyone a happy holidays!

People have been using copper for thousands of years but it’s as important today as ever. Copper is antimicrobial - it kills bacteria and viruses so it has im...portant health applications, a fact highlighted by Covid-19. Copper also plays a key role in green technologies because most wiring is made of copper. An average wind turbine contains 4.7 tons of it. An electric vehicle contains about 183 pounds of copper, four times as much as in a regular car. That’s about 6 kilometres of copper wiring per electric car! As we look for more ways to reduce our environmental impact, copper is essential. Nova Scotia had a number of historical copper mines and has the potential for copper mining in future. Here’s the story of copper mining at Cape d’Or. The first miners at Cape d’Or, Cumberland County, were the Mi’kmaq who extracted copper and made tools and arrowheads from the metal, long before Europeans came to Nova Scotia. Mikmaq also gathered chert at Cape d’Or, a rock whose sharp edges made good tools. In 1876, there was an attempt to sink a shaft to mine copper at Bennett Brook but the effort was not successful. In 1897, J. A. Hanway formed the Colonial Copper Company which, from its New York City offices, invested several million dollars in developing mining operations at Cape d’Or. There were few roads in that parts of the province in those days, so a wharf was built in Horseshoe Cove and most people and materials came and went by water. By 1900, three areas were being mined at Cape d’Or. Shaft No. 1 was sunk to 113 metres and had two short drifts (horizontal tunnels off the shaft) at depths of 66 metres and 110 metres. The Hanway (aka No. 2) mine consisted of two inclined shafts, one toward the north for 150 metres and another toward the south for 200 metres. There are upwards of 243 metres of underground tunnels at the Hanway workings, one of which opens on the basalt cliff face south of the shafts. Hanway was the main area of mining activity. A third mine, at Bennett Brook, was 55 metres deep with 90 metres of drifts. Its workings were in a deep ravine immediately adjacent to the brook, which caused water leaks that hampered mining. In addition to these three sites, there were several other copper prospects discovered in the area, but none were explored to a significant extent. Mine infrastructure for the district consisted of a crushing and concentrating plant, mine offices, assay lab, numerous miners’ homes, boarding houses and a lodge. In addition, a narrow-gauge rail line connected all three areas to the concentrating plant. Despite the extensive workings, Cape d’Or produced only modest amounts of copper and the company ran into financial trouble. An article in the Copper Journal foreshadowed the company’s challenges: Company seems honestly managed, but is suffering from lack of needed funds, the development and equipment of a mine upon a large scale having proved much more costly than was anticipated when work was begun. Mining stopped in December 1907 and never restarted. A total of 1,971 tons of ore had been mined and processed, yielding a mere 12,320 pounds of copper. This was a poor return for the significant investment and extensive workings. After the mine closed, some of its buildings were barged to locations around the Bay of Fundy. Other buildings were torn down for their timber or brick, and the mine’s train was sold to the Newfoundland Railway. The equipment in the mill was sold for scrap. Detailed production records and other documents about the site were destroyed when the caretaker’s house later burned. Eli James of Advocate had worked at the mine from its inception and took care of the site after the mine closed. The Colonial Copper Company also had a small mine in New Annan, Colchester County, on the French River that was similarly unsuccessful. It also owned the Chandos Mine in Peterborough, Ontario. Champlain called it Cape d'Or (Cape of Gold) because he thought copper in the cliffs looked golden. Champlain was not entirely wrong there was reportedly some gold in the area. An 1866 report says gold was discovered and mined to a small extent in Cape d'Or. Also, the Industrial Advocate newspaper wrote in 1906, "It is reported on what appears to be good authority that the ore that has recently been mined at the Colonial Copper Mines, has considerable quantities of gold mixed with the copper." If true, the gold was not enough to turn around the company’s fortunes. According to the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbour, Maine, the Mi’kmaq name for Cape d’Or is L'mu'juiktuk (place of the dogs) because Kluskap's dogs chased a moose there that Kluskap turned into Isle Haute.

we will be closing for the season november 1st, thanks to all that made this season such a success!we will be closing for the season november 1st, thanks to all that made this season such a success!

ALL 3 CABINS HAVE BECOME AVAILABLE FOR OCT 16TH AND 17TH, only 3br left!ALL 3 CABINS HAVE BECOME AVAILABLE FOR OCT 16TH AND 17TH, only 3br left!