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Showing posts with label Halifax 2013. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Halifax 2013. Show all posts
Sunday, 22 September 2013
Back in Nova Scotia
There is a tourist bureau as soon as you enter Nova Scotia from New Brunswick ... Sister Sarah and I stopped for photos.
Thursday, 19 September 2013
Peggy's Cove, NS
I flew to Halifax today ... I'm staying with Sister Sarah and she and I are hooking up with a couple friends I went to university with tomorrow.
Sister Sarah wasn't going to be home 'til 5ish so I had some time to kill ... I wanted to be outside and near the water (I love being by the water!) so I headed to Peggy's Cove (about a half hour from Halifax). It's been a couple years since I've been there.
The first recorded name of the cove was Eastern Point Harbour or Peggs Harbour in 1766. The village is likely named after Saint Margaret's Bay (Peggy being the nickname for Margaret), which Samuel de Champlain named after his mother Margarite. There has been much folklore created to explain the name. One story suggests the village may have been named after the wife of an early settler. The popular legend claims that the name came from the sole survivor of a shipwreck at Halibut Rock near the cove. Artist and resident William deGarthe said she was a young woman while others claim she was a little girl too young to remember her name and the family who adopted her called her Peggy. The young shipwreck survivor married a resident of the cove in 1800 and became known as "Peggy of the Cove" attracting visitors from around the bay who eventually named the village, Peggy's Cove, after her nickname.
The village was formally founded in 1811 when the Province of Nova Scotia issued a land grant of more than 800 acres (320 ha) to six families of German descent. The settlers relied on fishing as the mainstay of their economy but also farmed where the soil was fertile. They used surrounding lands to pasture cattle. In the early 1900s the population peaked at about 300. The community supported a schoolhouse, church, general store, lobster cannery and boats of all sizes that were nestled in the Cove.
Just before you get to the Sou'Wester Restaurant and the lighthouse, you come across this gorgeous view ...
There's the lighthouse after I left the restaurant ... I headed towards it.
Sister Sarah wasn't going to be home 'til 5ish so I had some time to kill ... I wanted to be outside and near the water (I love being by the water!) so I headed to Peggy's Cove (about a half hour from Halifax). It's been a couple years since I've been there.
The first recorded name of the cove was Eastern Point Harbour or Peggs Harbour in 1766. The village is likely named after Saint Margaret's Bay (Peggy being the nickname for Margaret), which Samuel de Champlain named after his mother Margarite. There has been much folklore created to explain the name. One story suggests the village may have been named after the wife of an early settler. The popular legend claims that the name came from the sole survivor of a shipwreck at Halibut Rock near the cove. Artist and resident William deGarthe said she was a young woman while others claim she was a little girl too young to remember her name and the family who adopted her called her Peggy. The young shipwreck survivor married a resident of the cove in 1800 and became known as "Peggy of the Cove" attracting visitors from around the bay who eventually named the village, Peggy's Cove, after her nickname.
The village was formally founded in 1811 when the Province of Nova Scotia issued a land grant of more than 800 acres (320 ha) to six families of German descent. The settlers relied on fishing as the mainstay of their economy but also farmed where the soil was fertile. They used surrounding lands to pasture cattle. In the early 1900s the population peaked at about 300. The community supported a schoolhouse, church, general store, lobster cannery and boats of all sizes that were nestled in the Cove.
Just before you get to the Sou'Wester Restaurant and the lighthouse, you come across this gorgeous view ...
There's the lighthouse after I left the restaurant ... I headed towards it.
The Sou'Wester Restaurant and Gift Shop, Peggy's Cove, NS
Before I roamed around Peggy's Cove, I was starving so had lunch at the Sou'wester Restaurant which is within viewing distance of the lighthouse.
Considering the amount of tour buses that were in the parking lot (about 20), the gift shop was jammed.
Considering the amount of tour buses that were in the parking lot (about 20), the gift shop was jammed.
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