About Us

Welcome to Duckworth Vacation Rentals

Anne Fouillard and John Duckworth welcome you to the Duckworth Vacation Rentals website. Nova Scotia, especially the South Shore, is one of the last vestiges of unspoiled beaches and wide open spaces in the North Atlantic. If you, your family, your extended family and your friends are looking for a great vacation, have a look at our roster of seaside vacation homes.

Anne and John are co-owners and brokers of Duckworth Real Estate, a small realty, officially opened in 1999, to meet the growing need for real estate representation on Nova Scotiais South Shore. We specialize in oceanfront and oceanview homes and vacant land for a wide range of clients. Our client base is approximately 50% Canadian and 50% international including the United States, England, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Hong Kong.

Duckworth Vacation Rentals is a service, offered to the real estate clients of Duckworth Real Estate - http://www.duckworth-realestate.com/. Since many of our buyers are interested in renting out their newly acquired properties for short terms, we offer a vacation rental referral service. The bulk of the homes we rent are located on the South Shore and most are in the immediate Kingsburg, Rose Bay area.

Our Location

The offices of Duckworth Real Estate are located in a restored English Barn (circa 1750) in the old seaside village of Kingsburg, once home to both Acadian and German farmers and fishers. The barn is a work in progress and an interesting piece of old Lunenburg architecture.

The village of Kingsburg is situated at the end of the Kingsburg Peninsula, an amphitheatre of headlands, beautiful long open beaches, rolling drumlins and backshore freshwater lakes. We are less than 20 minutes from Old Town Lunenburg, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and just off Route 332, the Lighthouse Route.

Our Staff

The professional staff consists of John Duckworth and Anne Fouillard. Both are members of the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA), a membership organization of 65,000 realtors Canada wide which owns the MLSAE trademark, has proprietary ownership of the REALTOR trademark, and operates the Multiple Listing Service. We are also members of the Nova Scotia Association of Realtors (NSAR) which serves the real estate industry in this province.

John Duckworth,
Broker/Co-Owner and Salesperson
A civil engineer, John and has been in the real estate industry for over forty years. He has worked as a developer, builder, development consultant and project manager on residential, commercial, industrial and institutional projects in Atlantic Canada, Ontario, Quebec, New Hampshire, Maine, Africa and the Philippines.

In 1972, John purchased a derelict c.1840, one-room schoolhouse, fronting on a beautiful beach, Kingsburg Beach. He converted the schoolhouse to its present use as an historic, year round, completely self-contained and fully equipped, oceanfront dwelling. John and Anne are still the proud owners of this unique property. Schoolhouse by the Sea is now rented out to visitors to the area.

Born in Montreal and brought up in Halifax, John has traveled in Europe, Africa, Asia, Mexico and the Caribbean, as well as throughout the United States. He is a Director of the Sherman Hines Museum of Photography and the Rossignol Cultural Centre in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, President of the Nova Scotia Snowboarding Association, and past-President of the Riverport and District Board of Trade.


Anne Fouillard, Associate Managing Broker/Co-Owner and Salesperson
Anne has a Masters Degree in Environmental Studies and Resource Management. She has travelled extensively world wide, circumnavigating the globe several times in her consulting business and teaching career. Her career has taken her to every continent and resulted in her living and working in several Asian countries, Africa, Central and Latin America, the South Pacific, Europe, and the Caribbean. She is a certified real estate broker and salesperson as well as a first class residential space planner and decorator. Anne has also taken the course for the Accredited Buyer Representative (ABR) through the Real Estate Buyer's Agent Council. Anne speaks English, French, Spanish and Bahasa Indonesian and clients who require French or Spanish will be pleased to know that they can have services in those languages.

John and Anne are both charter directors of the Kingsburg Coastal Conservancy, an organization dedicated to the preservation of headlands, beaches, and wetlands on the Kingsburg Peninsula where Duckworth Real Estate is located.

Anne and John look forward to assisting you, whether you want to purchase or sell a home or land, rent your oceanfront/view property for a week, month, or a year, or simply discuss your real estate ideas.