Shelburne, Canada Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

SHELBURNE , 70km southwest of Liverpool, took heart when it was chosen as the backdrop for the 1994 cinematic version of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic The Scarlet Letter , but the film was such a dodo that it did the town no favours. Indeed, despite the well-kept shingle and clapboard houses that string down from Water Street, the main drag, to Dock Street and the waterfront, Shelburne manages a vaguely disconsolate air. It does, however, boast the third largest harbour in the world, after Halifax and Sydney – easily big enough, so the plan went, to accommodate the British fleet if Hitler managed to launch … more »