Our World Tuesday
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August 2013 - Peggy's Cove Nova ScotiaA must stop for every tourist to the area. I posted about our drive to the area.
Peggy's Cove is a small rural community located on the eastern shore of St. Margarets Bay in Nova Scotia's Halifax Regional Municipality, which is famous for the Peggy's Point Lighthouse (established 1868).
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 town itself is so picturesque especially in the fog.
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And Nova Scotia is where my Great great grandfather went from Edinburgh in 1800's , then from there he went to Corsica and then on to Malta , where he settled and my dad was born. My great great grandfather was in the Royal Engineers. There are lots of Munros there, some may spell it differently , but we say it is the right way ;-) Munro being my maiden name .
ReplyDeleteIt is a lovely town most specially because of the culture it projected. I am just curious as there seems to be all rocks, no trees seen on these areas.
ReplyDeleteLove the stark quality of the lighthouse shot, and the lovely series of Cove, I can smell the sea water...
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