Three Sheeps To The Wind Cottage

05/17/2026

They have some availability for tomorrow!

04/30/2026

Yay 🚎

04/23/2026

Can’t wait 😛

✨We are excited to announce that our opening day will be Friday, May 8th, 2026! We can't wait to see all of you this season!! ✨
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04/20/2026

Tour availability is shrinking for this summer if your considering a visit this summer.

02/26/2026

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12/03/2025

Tours are happening again in 2026

09/23/2025

Tuesday morning Nova Scotia history tidbit.

⛓️‍💥 Leon Trotsky nearly missed the Russian Revolution because he was locked up in a camp in Nova Scotia.

Trotsky was in New York City when the first rumblings of revolution shook Russia in 1917. He quickly packed up his family, jumped on a ship, and headed home.

But, Trotsky wrote, when his boat stopped in Halifax, things went sideways:

“On April 3, British officers … demanded that I, my family, and five other passengers leave the boat … My boy ran up to help me and struck an officer with his little fist. ‘Shall I hit him again, Papa?’ he shouted.”

Instead of Moscow, Trotsky ended up on a train to the Amherst Internment Camp. He never did figure out why he’d been sent there, or on whose orders.

He didn’t think much of the camp, writing: “Eight hundred of us lived in these conditions … the air in this impoverished dormitory at night can be imagined.”

He wrote that while in Amherst, he performed mundane chores including: “sweeping floors, peeling potatoes, washing crockery, and cleaning the common lavatory.”

But Trotsky wasn’t one to sit quietly. He gave speeches and argued politics with the other prisoners, which one guard complained: “would have made communists of all the prisoners” if he’d stayed much longer.

After about a month, just as suddenly as he’d been detained, Trotsky was freed. He never figured that out, either.

Decades later, declassified MI5 and MI6 files revealed he’d been caught in the middle of a turf war between two rival British spy agencies. One agency had ordered him arrested, the other had ordered him released.

And so, as the Russian Revolution was shaking the world, one of the men who became its top leaders was scrubbing floors and peeling potatoes in Nova Scotia.

📙 The full story is featured on the Backyard History Podcast and in the new book ‘Backyard History: Mysterious Stories from Atlantic Canada’s Past,’ which you can get at backyardhistory.ca/books

06/23/2025

June 23, 2025 - Spotlight on Sponsors - Did you know that Picnic in the Park is entirely funded by community businesses and individuals? Dr. Maureen Andrea has been a faithful supporter of PiP since 2020. In her own words:
“It has been a sincere pleasure to continue the legacy of Dr Rod Fraser of the Chester Clinic Dental. For over 60 years this clinic has been providing care to the amazing patients of the South Shore. For a small community its heart and soul is the people who give so much back and it is my honour to support our artists and events that make this place so special.”

06/08/2025

Picnic in the Park is under one month away. Every Sunny Tuesday evening at Lordly Park in Chester, 6pm-8pm. Make a note: the first Picnic in the Park is on a Wednesday July 2.

12/04/2024

Hey Followers, if you’re considering a winter holiday at Three Sheeps remember book direct! You save at least 15% because we don’t charge HST 🙂 plus we don’t charge service fees. We have a 4 night minimum over the winter.