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What’s left over
Low tide is…fragrant. And a wharf after the end of lobster season is forlorn. And the foggy day enhanced both.
Lower West Pubnico, Nova Scotia
photographed 7.31.2015
Pulpit View
If you want to know more about the Covenanters’ Church, Wikipedia can explain it.
I was the only one inside the place. And that pulpit, accessible via a steep and narrow staircase, was too tempting to resist. It just occurs to me that maybe steep and narrow staircases inside churches could be a metaphor. Those straight-laced founders of the place, who segregated men and women during the services, probably didn’t imagine a day when a woman could ascend to the pulpit. Even if she was just there to make a few photos.
Covenanters’ Church
Grand Pré, Nova Scotia
photographed 7.26.2015
The Placid Saint
In 1755, the British expelled all “French inhabitants” in Nova Scotia for refusing to pledge an unconditional allegiance to England. Approximately 10,000 Acadians were sent off on chips and banished. After their force departure, the British burned their buildings and destroyed their cemeteries. (But not, notably, the extensive dike system the Acadians had build in low-lying areas near Grand Pré. The dikes are still visible – and used – today.)
From 1763, the British permitted the Acadians to return, only not to the lands they’d lived on before. Instead many Acadians ended up along the Bay of Fundy in an area that is still known as the French Shore. The Acadian culture is still very strong in this part of the province, and French is still the first language of most residents.
Just outside of the tiny town of Belleveau is the first cemetery that was established after the Acadians returned; a placid saint keeps watch from her spot in a tiny chapel.
Belleveau Cove, Nova Scotia
photographed 7.29.2015
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