Nova Scotia blogs

In our award category for best Nova Scotia blogs, we've burned the midnight oil and spent numerous hours trawling the Internet in order to single out the finest outputs from Canada's second-smallest province. When it comes to representing the myriad aspects of Nova Scotia's history and culture, one of the best ways for outsiders to get an authentic glimpse is via online journals and we're confident that the list below are the very best from among them. If you live in the province, are just visiting or plan to travel their soon, the blogs below come as highly recommended reading and we'd like to take the time to recognize the ongoing efforts of the writers behind them.

• Nova Scotia blogs

  www.novascotiablogs.com/ns_my_oyster/

  What's better than one excellent Nova Scotia blog? Try fifteen, all usefully aggregated on one easy to navigate site. We've reviewed them all however and, while it was a close one, we found Cynthia Bragg's Nova Scotia, My Oyster blog to have the widest appeal.

• Me and My Dogs in Halifax#Nova Scotia

  dogkisser.blogspot.com/

  A passionate and personal blog which follows the life and times of Joan and her animals in Halifax. If you love dogs, you'll love this.

• The Eastern Shore Current

  e-shorens.blogspot.com/

  An incredibly valuable resource for those who live on Nova Scotia's temperamental Eastern Shore. Also picks up on local events and amusing articles pertaining to Nova Scotia living.

• With Bite

  www.withbite.blogspot.com/

  The province's finest food and drink blog, with plenty of emotive writing and mouth-watering photography on offer for the avid foodie.

• Hero Hill

  www.herohill.com/

  A slick site which covers the Nova Scotia and wider Canada's music scene, particularly indie and underground material. You're bound to find a new favorite artist with just a little perusal.

• The Coast

  www.thecoast.ca/

  Halifax's The Coast is a powerhouse of original, well-written content from bar reviews, dating, the arts and everything in between. Make sure you hit the contests and pick up some merchandise while you're at it.

• Ambera Wellman

  www.amberas.com/blog/

  Ambera Wellman is a Halifax-based artist and student who thankfully shares her creations and musings here. Be sure to use the categories filter as her work is incredibly varied and worth exploring in full.

• Yarmouth Nova Scotia

  www.yarmouthtownandcounty.com/

  Whether you're a resident of Nova Scotia or not, you could do much worse than check out Lynn Hemeon's astounding photography of the Yarmouth area.

• SSNSC

  ssnsc.blogspot.com/

  The Schizophrenia Society of Nova Scotia performs extraordinary work in raising awareness to this often misunderstood illness. The blog has already won one award, so here is a much-deserved second for their life-changing dedication.

• Blooming Writer

  bloomingwriter.blogspot.com/

  Excellent penmanship and vibrant pictures are coupled together to form the Gardening in Nova Scotia blog, a breath of fresh air in an often convoluted area of the 'net.