Back in the 1800s, long before antihistamines, the advertising slogan for St. Andrews-By-the-Sea, Canada’s first summertime seaside resort town, proclaimed, “No hay fever and a railroad.”

Something exhilarating about the salt water and briny air in this New Brunswick hamlet, plus the laid-back pace and the rhythm of the powerful tides, enticed people to return summer after summer. They still do.