Peggys Cove is a small village at 44° 29′ 34″ north 63° 55′ 3″ west in St. Margarets Bay on the lighthouse trail of Halifax County, near Halifax, Nova Scotia, and it is the home of sculptor and painter William E. deGarthe. The community is one of the busiest tourist attractions in the province. Its famous lighthouse stands at the eastern entrance of St. Margaret's Bay. The name 'Peggy' is a nickname for the name 'Margaret'. The name 'Peggys Cove' may have originated with an early settler. Halifax County is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. ... {{Canadian City/Disable Field={{{Disable Motto Link}}}}} Motto: E Mari Merces (Wealth from the Sea) City Symbol: Kingfisher Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada Location. ... Motto: Munit Haec et Altera Vincit (One defends and the other conquers) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Halifax Largest city Halifax Lieutenant Governor Myra A. Freeman Premier John Hamm (PC) Area 55,284 km² (12th)  - Land 53,338 km²  - Water 1,946 km² (3. ... Sculptor redirects here. ... For the computer graphics program, see Corel Painter. ... A tourist attraction is a place where tourists, foreign and domestic, normally visit. ... Motto: Munit Haec et Altera Vincit (One defends and the other conquers) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Halifax Largest city Halifax Lieutenant Governor Myra A. Freeman Premier John Hamm (PC) Area 55,284 km² (12th)  - Land 53,338 km²  - Water 1,946 km² (3. ... The Peggys Point lighthouse in Nova Scotia, Canada An aid for navigation and pilotage at sea, a lighthouse is a tower building or framework sending out light from a system of lamps and lenses or, in older times, from a fire. ...

View of Peggys Cove from across the bay

Places of interest

Originally a fishing village, it is now primarily a tourist attraction, although its inhabitants still fish for lobster, and the village still maintains a rustic appearance. Clawed lobsters comprise a family (Nephropidae) of large marine crustaceans. ...

Lighthouse

Peggys Cove has a classic red-and-white lighthouse, retired from active service on a rocky point, and it is perhaps the most-photographed place in Atlantic Canada. The lighthouse now contains a small Canada Post office. Visitors can visit the lighthouse itself and go walking on the rocky shore. A sign warns visitors that the unpredictable surf carries away several incautious visitors a year. The Peggys Point lighthouse in Nova Scotia, Canada An aid for navigation and pilotage at sea, a lighthouse is a tower building or framework sending out light from a system of lamps and lenses or, in older times, from a fire. ... Atlantic Canada consists of the four Canadian provinces on the Atlantic Ocean: Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. ... Lettermail Incentive Lettermail Addressed Admail Unaddressed Admail Catalogue Mail Publications Mail Business Reply Mail Regular Parcel XpressPost Priority Courier External link Canada Post Website Categories: Canada Post | Canadian federal departments and agencies | Communications in Canada ...

The deGarthe Gallery

From May 1 to October 31 of each year the deGarthe Gallery is open to the public, where 65 of William E. deGarthe's paintings and sculptures are on exhibition. May 1 is the 121st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (122nd in leap years). ... October 31 is the 304th day of the year (305th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 61 days remaining, as the final day of October. ...

Memorial Provincial Park

On an outcropping 30-m (100-ft) granite face of rock behind the house of William E. deGarthe, the sculptor carved a lasting monument to Nova Scotian fishermen depicting 32 fishermen and their wives and children enveloped by the wings of a guardian angel.

Whalesback Memorial

Nearby is a memorial to the victims of the Swissair Flight 111 air disaster, which crashed into the sea off Peggys Cove in 1998. Swissair MD-11 Swissair Flight 111 (SR-111) was a commercial Swissair McDonnell Douglas MD-11 flying from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, New York to Cointrin International Airport in Geneva. ... 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...

Hacketts Cove

Hacketts Cove, which is 7.80 km down Peggy's Cove Road, is the home of Nautel Limited, which manufactures transmitters used by broadcasting and navigational stations around the world.

Murder mystery

Perhaps of the strangest links to Peggys Cove was created by Mark Guglielmo, who on May 10, 1994, drove his car from South Daytona, Florida, on a long and mysterious journey to Peggys Cove. After killing his wife Kimberly Anne Guglielmo with a hatchet blow to the head, he claims to have taken her corpse to a friend in Greenwich, Connecticut, who in turn is alleged to have put the lower half of the torso in the waters of the Hudson River near Tarrytown and the top half under a tree in woods near Bedford, both in Westchester County and both near the Viking-influenced town name of Valhalla, New York. He personally continued his journey to bury a mock Viking helmet and longsword bearing his wife's former surname Hagger inscribed upon its blade. Both were then concealed among rocks of the shoreline at Peggys Cove where Mark Guglielmo believed that Lief Ericson and his men arrived in longboats centuries ago. To date no announcement has been made concerning the discovery of these strange artifacts, and Guglielmo is serving a 40-year prison sentence in Florida for the murder of his wife. Mark Anthony Alexander Guglielmo was born on December 12, 1968 in Westchester County, New York. ... May 10 is the 130th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (131st in leap years). ... 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... South Daytona is a city located in Volusia County, Florida. ... State nickname: Everglade State, Sunshine State Other U.S. States Capital Tallahassee Largest city Jacksonville Governor Jeb Bush Official languages English Area 170,451 km² (22nd)  - Land 137,374 km²  - Water 30,486 km² (17. ... Kimberly Anne Guglielmo was born June 29, 1973 in Aransas Pass, Texas. ... This page is about Greenwich in England. ... State nickname: The Constitution State Other U.S. States Capital Hartford Largest city Bridgeport Governor M. Jodi Rell Official languages English Area 14,371 km² (48th)  - Land 12,559 km²  - Water 1,809 km² (12. ... Image of the Hudson River taken by NASA. View of the Hudson River in 1880s showing Jersey City View of the Hudson River from Battery Park, New York The Goldman Sachs Tower looms above the skyline of downtown Jersey City, New Jersey, overlooking the Hudson River. ... Tarrytown is the name of some real places in the United States of America: Tarrytown, New York Tarrytown, Georgia Sleepy Hollow, New York was formerly known as North Tarrytown. ... Location within the British Isles. ... Westchester County is a suburban county with about 940,000 residents located in the U.S. state of New York. ... Viking (disambiguation). ... For other uses see Valhalla (disambiguation). ... State nickname: Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York Governor George Pataki Official languages None Area 141,205 km² (27th)  - Land 122,409 km²  - Water 18,795 km² (13. ... A statue of Leif Ericson in front of the Hallgrímskirkja in Reykjavik Leif Ericson (old Icelandic: Leifr Eiríksson) was an explorer, the son of Eric the Red (Eiríkr rauði), a Norwegian outlaw, who was the son of another Norwegian outlaw, Þorvaldr Ásvaldsson. ...

Reference

See also

• Radio transmitters
• Vikings
• William E. deGarthe

In communications and information processing, a transmitter (sometimes abbreviated XMTR) is an object (source) which sends information to an observer (receiver). ... The name Viking is a loan from the native Scandinavian term for the Norse seafaring warriors who raided the coasts of Scandinavia, Europe and the British Isles from the late 8th century to the 11th century, the period of European history referred to as the Viking Age. ...

External links

William E. deGarthe art works (http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/brigsbarqs/degarthe.asp)

Nautel web site (http://www.nautel.com/)