Historical Gardens at Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia: Annapolis Royal is a beautiful town and one of the oldest settlements, originally of the French, in Nova Scotia. Annapolis Royal is located on the western coast of the Nova Scotial peninsula, and at the top (or eastern) end of the Annapolis Valley. The town hosts a fort, the only tidal electric power generating plant in North America, and the Historical Gardens. Also to be found there is Newman's, the best restaurant we found in Nova Scotia, and not overly expensive, either. The Historical Gardens are so named because each garden within the compound is set up as a garden would have been at a particular time in history.