New Brunswick

When the English partitioned their Nova Scotia territory into three separate colonies in 1784, they named the westernmost, non-peninsunlar section, New Brunswick, in honor of King George III's possessions in Germany, as, in addition to being the mad king of England, he was Prince Elector to the Holy Roman Empire, on account of concurrently being the Duke (Herzog) of Braunschweig-Lüneburg.  In English, as well as in Spanish, French, and other mainstream tongues, Braunschweig is rendered as "Brunswick".

It is amusing to consider that the King could in the 18th century get away with being a Prince Elector, whereas Thomas Arundell, the father of the Anne Arundel of Annapolis, Maryland, was jailed and could easily have lost his head for merely accepting a Countship from the Roman Empire just a bit over a century before the kings of Britain became Germans themselves.  That's the divine right of kings for you.

We arrived in North Head Wharf, Grand Manan Island, on 4 August 2014.  Peregrinus is on this photo, center, behind the wharf.  A phone call to the Canadian Border Services Agency that same afternoon and voila!, we were checked into Canada.  Were that all countries worked like so.

I Close My Eyes So I Can See

–––  Peter Guttormsen.

Birch Harbor, south of Prospect Point.  3 August 2014.

Cadillac Mountain

So named in 1918 after Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, Donaquec et Monts Déserts, who once owned 400 square kilometres in Nouvelle-France that included Mount Desert Island.  De La Mothe founded Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit, a settlement that eventually became a now bankrupt city in Michigan.

On 1 January 2011, the Admiral and the seaman hiked up the Mount, five days after the Christmas Blizzard of 2010.

Acadia National Park, crowned by the île des Monts Déserts.  2 August 2014.

In Acadia

Acadia, settled from 1604 and onwards, was the province of Nouvelle-France that occupied most of today's Maine, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, as well as parts of today's Québec.  The French lost Acadia to the English between 1710 and 1724.

Although Acadia has not existed as a political entity for almost 300 years, we were intrigued last year when we found entire towns in Québec that choose to fly the Acadian flag, sometimes to the exclusion of the Canada and the Québec flags (!).  The Louisiana Cajuns are, of course, also descendants of the Acadian diaspora, but in the bayous they fly the Old Glory, as far as we saw a few years ago.

In any event, Peregrinus will be exploring the old Acadian coast during the next couple of months.

The Alférez looks out at other boats in Mackerel Cove, Swans Island.  31 July 2014.