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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.
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 cove was the scene of a youth novel by Bryan Doyle called You Can Pick Me up at Peggy's Cove (1976), which was made into a film directed by Don McBrearty and into a video released by Beacon Films, Inc., in 1982. In 2016 it was announced that a Peggy's Cove–themed resort had opened in Thailand. [9]
Route 333 is a collector road in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.. It is located in the Halifax Regional Municipality, connecting Upper Tantallon at Trunk 3 with Beechville at Trunk 3.
In support of this effort, a lighthouse was built at Low Point in 1832 to aid vessels entering Sydney Harbour. [8] This first lighthouse was an octagonal wood tower, 69 feet high, with red and white stripes and a red round iron lantern containing a third-order double bullseye lens manufactured in France by Barbier, Benard, et Turenne. [9]
Highest point of Fort McNab ... Terence Bay Lighthouse Sandy Cove Road ... 10515 Peggy's Cove Road; No. 333 Highway Glen Margaret NS
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!!
Sheringham Point Lighthouse Green Island Lighthouse, St. Lawrence middle estuary. This is a list of lighthouses in Canada.These may naturally be divided into lighthouses on the Pacific coast, on the Arctic Ocean, in the Hudson Bay watershed, on the Labrador Sea and Gulf of St. Lawrence, in the St. Lawrence River watershed (including the Great Lakes), and on the Atlantic seaboard.