After dropping off our luggage we went shopping for chocolate, tea and books at some well known local shops.
First stop was for chocolate from Rogers' Chocolates. This shop dates from 1903 and is known as the Heritage Shop. An immigrant from Massachusetts in 1885, Charles "Candy" Rodgers at first sold chocolates imported from San Francisco. He later decided to make them in his shop and became Canada's first chocolatier.
Next was a stop at Canada's oldest tea company's shop. The founder John Murchie learned the trade delivering tea for Queen Victoria at Balmoral Castle.
We also visited an independent bookstore co-founded in 1963 by the Canadian author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Alice Munro.
Later, on the way to the museum we walked past the harbor. Yellow ferry taxis stop here and take people back and forth across the harbor. The building in the background is the Parliament Building. It is lit up at night.
Here are some other pictures from our day:
