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Partridge Island (Nova Scotia)
Partridge Island is a significant historical, cultural and geological site located near the mouth of Parrsboro Harbour and the town of Parrsboro on the Minas Basin, in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia. It attracts many visitors including sightseers, swimmers, photographers, hikers and amateur geologists.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 History - Town of Parrsboro, Nova Scotia )〕 Partridge Island is actually a peninsula that is connected to the mainland by a sandbar isthmus.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 World's Highest Tides )〕 According to local legend, the isthmus was created during the Saxby Gale of 1869.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 History - Town of Parrsboro, Nova Scotia )〕〔Brown, Roger David. (2002) ''Historic Cumberland County South: Land of Promise''. Halifax: Nimbus Publishing Limited.〕 The hiking trail to the top of the island affords scenic views of key landforms on the Minas Basin including Cape Blomidon, Cape Split and Cape Sharp.〔 The nearby Ottawa House By-the-Sea Museum contains artifacts and exhibits illustrating the history of the former village at Partridge Island, which dates from the 1770s.〔 Partridge Island is a favourite hunting ground for rockhounds because its ancient sandstone and basalt cliffs are steadily eroded by the fast-moving currents of the world's highest tides. Rocks and debris worn away from its cliffs are dragged down the beach making it possible to find gemstones, exotic-looking zeolite minerals and fossils.〔 Fossil hunters are warned, however, that although one or two loose specimens may be collected, Nova Scotia law requires that they be sent or taken to a museum for further study, and no fossils may be excavated from bedrock without a permit.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Fossil sites: Protecting the Past )〕
==Myth and legend==
Partridge Island apparently got its name from a European translation of ''pulowech'', the Mi'kmaq word for ''partridge''.〔Hamilton, William B. (1996) ''Place Names of Atlantic Canada''. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, p.377.〕 The Confederacy of Mainland Mi'kmaq report that the Mi’kmaq themselves called Partridge Island "Wa’so’q," which means “Heaven" because the island was a traditional place for gathering the sacred stone amethyst. It was also the mythic home of the grandmother of the legendary Mi'kmaq god-giant Glooscap.〔(【引用サイトリンク】The Story Begins )〕 According to Mi'kmaq artist and storyteller, Gerald Gloade, the natives also called Partridge Island "Glooscap's grandmother's cooking pot" because the waters around the island appear to boil twice a day when air trapped in holes in the basalt is pushed out as the tide rises.〔(【引用サイトリンク】Tracing Lithic Sources in the Mi'kmaq Legends of Kluskap )〕
Legend has it that Glooscap lived on Cape Blomidon, across the basin from Partridge Island. His heroic exploits account for key features of the landscape, including perhaps, the dramatic tides of the Minas Basin. When his enemy, Beaver, built a dam across the Minas Channel from Cape Split to the Cumberland side, the waters not only flooded Glooscap's herbal medicine garden at Advocate Harbour, they inundated the Annapolis Valley. Glooscap arrived on the scene, saw what the Beaver had done, and angrily smashed the dam with his paddle releasing the pent-up waters.〔Spicer, Stanley T. (1991) ''Glooscap Legends''. Hantsport, Nova Scotia: Lancelot Press, pp.15-16.〕 According to anthropologist Anne-Christine Hornborg, the daily breaking and re-building of a giant beaver dam serves as a metaphor for the powerful tides of the Minas Basin — not a literal explanation, but a symbolic representation of the natural environment.〔Hornborg, Anne-Christine. (2008) ''Mi'kmaq Landscapes: From Animism to Sacred Ecology''. Hampshire, England: Ashgate Publishing Limited, p.86.〕
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