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Peggys Point Lighthouse, also known as Peggys Cove Lighthouse, is an active lighthouse and an iconic Canadian image. Located within Peggy's Cove , Nova Scotia , it is one of the busiest tourist attractions in the province and is a prime attraction on the Lighthouse Trail scenic drive.
Fishing boats in the harbour at Peggy's Cove. 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 a nickname for Margaret), which Samuel de Champlain named after his mother Marguerite Le Roy. [1]
From Tantallon to Peggy's Cove it is known as the "Peggy's Cove Road". From West Dover to Beechville it is named the "Prospect Road". The entire route is part of the Lighthouse Route scenic travel way.
Swissair Flight 111 crashed 8 km (5 mi) off the coast of Peggy's Cove. Pictured is the community's iconic Peggys Point Lighthouse in 2005, with St. Margarets Bay seen below the lighthouse on the right. Flight 111 took off from New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport at 20:18 EDT (00:18 UTC) on 2 September 1998.
The 40-foot (12 m) masonry tower of 1809 vintage is the third-oldest Canadian lighthouse, and served as a model for those built downstream at Pointe des Monts Le phare in 1830, at Southwest Point and Heath Point (the eastern tip) on shipwreck haven Anticosti Island in 1835, at South Pillar and Ile Bicquette Île Bicquette in 1843, and at Ile ...
Highest point of Fort McNab ... Terence Bay Lighthouse Sandy Cove Road ... 10515 Peggy's Cove Road; No. 333 Highway Glen Margaret NS
Sep. 9—SOUTH PORTLAND — Becky Armstrong, who lives full time in an RV and hails from Florida, drove from Washington, D.C., to see a Maine lighthouse on Saturday. Her tour on Maine Open ...
Nova Scotia's most famous landmark, the iconic Peggy's Cove Lighthouse is a prime location to catpure sunsets and sunrises. Often littered with tourists, it is often best to visit early or late in the season when it is cold. Even then a few people will be wandering the rocks. And if it isn't abundantly clear, stay off the black rocks!!