July 16-19, 2016
Peggy’s Cove
Peggy’s Cove is a fishing village and tourist destination on St. Margaret’s Bay. Except for the busloads of tourists (us included), it was a scenic, unspoiled fishing village.
Peggy’s Cove Lighthouse
Our guide, explaining lobster traps, wearing the Nova Scotia tartan.
Titanic Memorial
121 victims of the sinking of the Titanic were buried in Fairview Lawn Cemetery in Nova Scotia, many of their black granite markers provided by the owner of the ship, the White Star Line. One marker has received an inordinate amount of attention: That of J. Dawson. After the release of James Cameron’s movie The Titanic, this marker began to be treated as if the movie’s hero, Jack Dawson, were buried there. The grass is worn in front of the marker and memorial items are left there. 
Marine Museum of the Atlantic
Two exhibits stood out in particular among the many wonderful exhibits here: The Halifax Explosion, and the Franklin Expedition. The Halifax explosion is the largest man-made explosion prior to the development of nuclear weapons and occurred when a ship carrying TNT and other explosives collided in the Halifax harbor with a ship carrying relief supplies. 2,000 people were killed and 9,000 were injured. Over 12,000 buildings were destroyed or severely damaged.
Sir John Franklin began his fourth expedition to find the Northwest Passage, a sea route from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans. All 129 men aboard two ships died over a period of several years. Jane had been introduced to Franklin through a song she’d heard on XM’s folk channel years ago (Stan Rogers’s Northwest Passage) and loved learning about the expedition. A museum guide sang the chorus of the song as she led a group through the exhibit.
This is a replica of a cairn or pile of stones that explorers would use to leave messages and/or food. 
We loved this caption by the replica of the cairn. Yes, we can imagine leaving messages for future travelers in a cache can–it’s geocaching!
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