Legend of Peggy's Cove - Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada
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A blue plaque near the Peggy's Cove Visitors Information Center at 96 Peggy's Point Road, Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia Canada tells the the legend of how Peggy's Cove got it's name and also the geology of the region around Peggy's Cove.
Waymark Code: WM10G3B
Location: Nova Scotia, Canada
Date Posted: 05/02/2019
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A blue plaque contains an image of the famous lighthouse at Peggy's Cove. The first paragraph tells the legend of how Peggy's Cove got its name. The plaque is inscribed:
This picturesque village and lighthouse are among the most photographed places in Canada.
A romantic folk tale is told about how the Cove got its name. Young
Peggy was traveling to Halifax to meet her fiance when the ship she was in foundered
on the rocks. She was rescued by local folk, and when visitors went to see her they
would say they were going to see “Peggy of the Cove.”
Collision of crustal plates beneath the ocean floor forced molten material to the
surface, which solidified as grey-white coarse-grained granite. The rocks have
been here for 350 million years, give or take a few million; the crustal plates are
still moving but no more than an inch a century, and there hasn’t been a glacier
hereabouts for 10,000 years. Enjoy and be careful, especially when venturing on
the rocks. And please be considerate of villager’s private property.
Peggy’s Cove is home to friendly fishermen, the nearby barrens are a controlled
conservation area, and the irresistible sea, as it has for millions of years, still
breaks on the immovable shore.
The Halifax Foundation and the Halifax Regional Municipality Millennium
are pleased to present the “Markers of Distinction” program as a cooperative
project to celebrate 250 years of Halifax-Dartmouth history,
and the arrival of the new millennium, in 1999-2000.