Arriving in the village of Windsor, we circled a wooden statue of local legend Howard Dill. Howard grows enormous pumpkins on his seed farm, famous for a pumpkin weigh-in each October. "Dill's Atlantic Giant" is the seed variety he recommends.

Little Windsor also proudly claims title to being “The birthplace of hockey” at Dill Farm’s Long Pond. This is a patch of ice on which hockey evolved during games between two boys’ schools as early as 1800. Canadian kids’ street play, the National Hockey League and winter Olympic competitions have become our heritage. And Paul Henderson’s winning goal in the last game of the fiercely contested 1972 Canada-Russia hockey series was arguably the defining moment in Canadian sports. www.town.windsor.ns.ca