Colleen George Photography

07/01/2024

CTMA Traversier. Souris, Prince Edward Island
Photo taken April 5, 2024 pre-boarding...en route to the Magdalen Islands.

10/19/2022

Annapolis Valley scenes. October 9, 2022

10/10/2022

St. Vincent de Paul, Queensport, Guysborough County.

Listed on "Canada's Historic Places".

Info on the website says:
DESCRIPTION OF HISTORIC PLACE
St. Vincent de Paul is a small, Gothic Revival, wood-shingled Roman Catholic church located on a rise of land overlooking the harbour at Queensport, Nova Scotia. The municipal heritage designation covers the building and surrounding land.
HERITAGE VALUE
St. Vincent de Paul church was built in 1897 when Queensport was still known as Crow Harbour. For the previous half a century the largely Irish congregation had been meeting in private homes. St. Vincent de Paul Church is therefore valued for its historic importance to the Irish Catholic community, its Gothic Revival architecture and the granite foundation stones. The stones themselves came from the Queensport quarry, once an important local industry.
The building includes a nave, a chancel on its eastern end, a vestry and steeple with a bell. Due to its height added to the height of the land the church sits on, the steeple served as a navigational aid to local fishermen for many years. The symmetrically arranged Gothic windows have simple tracery, echoed in the centrally placed entrance covered with a Gothic arch window.
Source - Municipality of the District of Guysborough Heritage Registration document, number 567.
CHARACTER-DEFINING ELEMENTS
The character-defining elements of this building relate to its Gothic Revival style, including:
- its wood-frame construction with wood shingle cladding;
- the shingle-clad steeple above a central, square frontispiece;
- the cross insignia cut into the right front granite foundation cornerstone;
- the locally quarried and dressed granite foundation;
- the Gothic Revival, symmetrically-placed windows with decorative tracery;
- the steeply pitched roof.

07/04/2022

Queensport.
June 19, 2022

01/26/2022

10/27/2021

Reflections
Kings County, NS
October 16, 2021

10/27/2021

Annapolis Valley woods road
October 2021

10/20/2020

Clearing skies. Hall's Harbour. October 17, 2020

10/06/2020

Sunset. October 5, 2020. Along the Bay of Fundy.

04/25/2020

Hall's Harbour, Nova Scotia
April 24, 2020

08/19/2019

August 8, 2019
Thousands of migratory shorebirds gather at The Guzzle on the Bay of Fundy to rest and feed before their long journey further south. Mostly Semipalmated sandpipers, but a few other breeds mixed in (i.e. Semipalmated plovers, Least sandpipers, etc)

07/22/2019

Rural scenes down Blomidon way...