During the 20th century, the South Shore became the centre of Nova Scotia's fishing industry, as fishermen in small boats operated from numerous tiny villages dotted along the coast.
Our old family compound once stood on the edge of town; now it anchored a dandified second village, dotted with tourist shops and tourist chalets and tourist amusement plazas.
"The village is the last stop for many of our young boys," said Juanita Kirton, the school's principal, as she strode across the 300-acre village dotted with small white cottages.
It is thought that Whale Bone Alley was used as a central shrine by a number of different villages dotted along the eastern chukotkan coast.
The guards were far from most of the amenities of civilized life, and spent most of their time walking exceedingly boring patrols, and occasionally sorting out the altercations in tiny villages dotted along their jurisdiction.
The winding, shady lanes of the village, dotted with colorful cafes and shops, seem thick with history at every turn.
It wasn't much more than a track then, with a chain of those little fortified villages dotted along it.
The picturesque village of Halki lies at the heart of the Tragaea, a vast plain of olive groves and unspoilt villages, dotted with Byzantine churches.
The small voices of hundreds of Lao children will ring in your ears as we pass tiny villages dotted along the road, some no more than clusters of bamboo bungalows.
Like the other small villages dotted along the ridges in the hills heading north out of Lismore, it is a quiet town, but the community and sports facilities available give it a strong community spirit.