Five Islands, Nova Scotia
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Five Islands is a rural community in Colchester County, Nova Scotia, Canada with a population of 316 located on the north shore of Minas Basin, home of the highest tides in the world. It is named afte
Five Islands NS, as seen from Trunk 2. The tall spire belongs to Peniel United Church.
View from Old Wife Point, Five Islands Provincial Park, to the southeast, down the southwestern foot of Economy Mountain.
Moose Island as seen from Five Islands provincial park
Long Island, one of the Five Islands
Glooscap
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Glooscap is a legendary figure of the Wabanaki peoples, native peoples located in Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and Atlantic Canada. The stories were first recorded by Silas Tertius Rand and then by C
Five Islands, Nova Scotia
…erosion. The lighthouse has since been preserved by a community group. Native Mi'kmaq legend has it that the Five Islands were created when their god Glooscap threw the mud, sticks and stones at the giant beaver who dammed his medicine garden in Advocate. The mud, sticks and stones that formed the islands are…
Glooscap turning man into a cedar tree. Scraping on birchbark by Tomah Joseph 1884
Glooscap monument, Millbrook First Nation, Nova Scotia