Peggy’s Cove, Nova Scotia

The lighthouse at Peggy’s Cove is the most photographed lighthouse in Canada. It is featured on almost every calendar from Atlantic Canada. It even had a Post Office until 2009, where tourists could have their postcards stamped with a lighthouse.

The lighthouse sits on an extensive granite outcrop at Peggy’s Point, immediately south of the village and its cove. It’s great to walk across the granite outcrop around the lighthouse and look out to the ocean.

If you were to sail due East from here you’d eventually arrive at Spain.

Interesting patterns in the granite look like maps.

I thought the band of quartz  you can see in the photo opposite was snow!

The harbour here is still used by local fishermen, lobsters being the main catch.

Sculptor and painter, William E. deGarthe immigrated to Canada in 1926, from Finland.  He spent summers at Peggy’s Cove, painting marine scenes. In the 1970’s he began a  monument to Nova Scotia’s fishermen, using a granite wall as his canvas. It depicts 32 fishermen, their wives, and children enveloped by the wings of St. Elmo, the patron saint of sailors, as well as the legendary Peggy. Unfortunately it was only half finished when he died.