Dedication of Partridge Island, Aug 21, 2016 at Ottawa House, Parrsboro. Partridge Island is a traditional gathering place for the Mi’kmaq. View post
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UPDATE:
– It’s official!
Cliffs of Fundy, Bonavista Peninsula named UNESCO Global Geoparks
Emma Davie, Emily Chung · CBC News July 10, 2020
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There are so many special places in Nova Scotia.
Twenty years ago or so, I fell in love with “The Parrsboro Shore” – my terminology for the area extending from the first glimpse of tidal rivers and marshes as you take the exit from the Trans-Canada at Masstown and head west on the Glooscap Trail going through some wonderful vistas and place names (my favourite: Upper Economy, Economy and Lower Economy) and keep going a very long time, turning away from the coast at Advocate and heading north to return to the coast at Apple River and continue on by the Raven Head Wilderness Area, perhaps hiking down to Birch Cove, then on to Sand River – or backtrack to Eatonville and our magnificent Chignecto Park.
I have returned there every year, usually in late summer or early fall. It conveys so much history, recent and ancient, that of the Indigenous peoples just coming into “our” (the settlers’) consciousness.
There is the feeling of the air, the vastness of the mud flats, the feeling as you stand on a cliff and look along the coast that you are sharing the air and the land with people of a hundred and a thousand years ago.
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