The film actress Theda Bara spent her honeymoon with husband Charles Brabin at The Pines in 1921.

[3] The DAR's owners, the Canadian Pacific Railway, decided to expand The Pines and replaced the original wooden hotel with the present building which opened on June 24, 1929.

The hotel includes a Stanley Thompson 18-hole golf course, a large landscaped outdoor heated pool, 30 cottages, and extensive grounds with views of the Annapolis Basin and Digby Gut.

In late 2019, the resort and golf club were sold to Halifax business owners Besim Halef and Glenn Squires and the Bear River First Nation.

Marguerite Woodworth, History of the Dominion Atlantic Railway, (Kentville, NS: 1937) pages 143, 145-147.