A few photos taken last week at Peggy’s Cove on the south shore of Nova Scotia.  The famous lighthouse, built in 1915, is the most photographed lighthouse in all of Canada and some say the world.  Just as iconic as the lighthouse are the large boulders that constitute the shoreline and the nearby village.  Peggy’s Cove is a popular tourist destination and even with COVID-19 in effect as well as the restrictions of the “Atlantic Bubble”, the parking lot was full and hundreds of tourists were out and about.

Who was Peggy?

Legend has it that when a schooner was shipwrecked in the area in the 1800’s, there was a sole survivor; a woman named Margaret.

Some say, she married a local man, settled in the village and thus became renowned as “Peggy of the Cove”. Others say that the name comes from the site’s location at the entrance to St. Margaret’s Bay (Peggy is a common nickname for Margaret).