11th HOME - OAKLAND ROAD, HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA

Oakland Terrace was located in the center of Halifax, Nova Scotia, with eash access to schools, churches, and the center of town. When we moved there in 1977 the house was divided into 9 apartments. We converted the main part of the house back to a 3 story private home and retained 6 apartments with private exterior entries on the rear of the house.

While the house had the appearance and feel of a private home from the front, it generated substantial income to support our costs.

Oakland Road in front of the house.

10th HOME: #7 MARTIN LANE, DENVER, COLORADO

We bought #7 Martin Lane in the Cherry Hills area of South Denver in 1971. The lot was 1 acre, located across a small creek, and accessed by a private lane and bridge. It was a great place for Lucy and Curtis, playing in not only our yard but the adjoining yards with no fences separating them. Just one yard away was the Cherry Hills Country Club Golf course which offered the neighborhood kids a large area to roam, when they didn't get caught by the County Club members. We sold the house in 1977 when we moved back to Halifax, Nova Scotia.

9th HOME - Marriotts Cove, NS

Not home for long, just a summer cottage on Marriotts Cove.  But a wonderful place to be in the warm days of July and August in Nova Scotia. Marriott's Cove is a community on a cove off of the Atlantic Ocean, just west of the Village of Chester in Lunenburg County.

Lucy and Curtis in the rowboat in front of the cottage on Marriotts Cove.

8th HOME–Cottage on Shaw Island, NS

Shaw Island in August is a wonderful retreat just west of Halifax on the South Shore. With protected back bays and beautiful vistas, a summer on Shaw Island is filled with fresh fish, picking berries, and time on the water. We don’t have a picture of the cottage but in the above photo is a photo of the boat dock which is just a few feet from the cottage.  The Gaff-rigged Schooner on the right of the photo was ours and a closer photo of the schooner appears below.

Shaw Island is located on Chester Basin. Great for sailing, fishing, and shopping. One interesting historical fact is located on Oak Island in the bottom of the map below. Oak Island is the site of the world’s longest running hunt for lost treasure. No one is sure exactly but various theories suggest that a Pirate, or the Knights Templar, or Francis Bacon created a mysterious Money Pit on the island, protected by a series of ingenious traps that would flood the tunnels, flooding the shafts with sea water to protect from treasure hunters. For hundreds of years treasure hunters have tried to recover the treasure, without success. But during the summer of 2011 the hunt in on again.

7th HOME – Eastern Shore, Nova Scotia

An institution for residents of Nova Scotia is the “Summer Cottage”. During the years 1969 – 1971 when we first lived there, everyone had a cottage during 6 weeks in the summer and occasionally throughout the year families spend a holiday or weekend at their cottage. Cottages ran the gambit from small and inexpensive to large and lavish.  In our case our cottage was rented, small, inexpensive and we all enjoyed it.

The Eastern Shore is a little developed area running along the Atlantic Coast east from Halifax. With many inlets and bays, there were many cottages right on the sea. 

One of the treats of a cottage in this area was the opportunity to buy fresh lobster from the fishermen as they returned to shore each day.  In 1969 we were buying lobster from them for $0.75/lb. and cooking them in sea water over a wood fired kitchen stove.

The Easter Shore of Nova Scotia

6th HOME - 1941 WOODLAWN TERRACE, HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA

The Glen Novinger Family arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1969 after 2 years living in Managua, Nicaragua. The change from Managua to Halifax was from a tropical climate to a northern Atlantic chilly to cold temperate climate and from a Latin American Spanish culture to an Anglo/British based English culture. But I would not want to neglect the opportunity to say that we loved the life of the Maritime Provinces of Canada and Nova Scotia in particular; and we end up spending several years living in Halifax.

In 1969 I was sent to Nova Scotia by the International Division of Citibank as Senior Regional Officer of the Mercantile Bank of Canada. In this position I had responsibility for the banking operations in the four Maritime Provinces of the Mercantile Bank, a Canadian Chartered Bank with its head office in Montreal. My office was in the Halifax Branch of the Bank at One Sackville Street and Water Street. From my office I could look across Water Street to the wharves and the harbour and watch the workers each morning bring out the drying racks filled with cod fish to dry in the sun and air.

Upon arrival in Halifax we purchased a home at 1941 Woodlawn Terrace, above the Northwest Arm of the ocean, where we lived from 1969 to 1971. From the second floor bedrooms one could see the NW Arm and the sail boats moored on the Arm at the Yacht Club. Our Woodlawn Terrace house was built at the turn of the century by ships wrights who were unemployed as a consequence of the end of the great schooner ship period in the last of the 19th Century. The house had fine hand fitted oak moldings, doors, window seats, and stairway. The garden was a main feature of the house with a large rock garden flowing down from the house to the street. It was a wonderful home at the end of a "U" shaped street.

5th HOME – Las Colinas, Managua, Nicaragua

Upon arriving in Managua, Nicaragua, in September of 1967, we spent the first 2 months in a suite at the Grand Hotel on Avenida Roosevelt, across from the Managua Cathedral. The Grand Hotel was a well known institution in the center of Managua for many decades, but it was destroyed by the 1972 earthquake that knocked down many of the buildings in central Managua. In November of 1967 we moved into a house that Citi Bank rented for us in the Las Colinas Development, 5 miles southeast of Managua on the highway to Masaya.

At Las Colinas our daughter, Lucy, ran barefoot through the garden and Curtis, who was born in Managua in 1968, learned to swim before he was 1 year old in the community pool next door.