1866 JulySchooner EscapeWhen fire swept Canning's main street in July 1866, a small schooner wasunder construction on the stocks in the Bigelow shipyard. The wooden ship was ready for launching except for her spars, rigging, and sails. As the fire drew near, Ebenezer Bigelow saw the tide was high, and made a snap decision to launch immediately. Quickly, a crowd of people clambered on the vessel's deck, seeking to escape the flames. Later, the vessel would be named Escape. In 1874 Escape's luck ran out. She was lost with all on board near Digby Gut, Nova Scotia. — Source: Stanley Spicer, in The Canning Gazette, Issue #127, July 1998 |
Links to Relevant Websites
Canning Monument Salutes Famed Shipbuilders by Ed Coleman
Bigelow Shipyard Monument
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Harold Borden monument, 1900 Canning
Canning war memorial Canning
Wolfville war memorial Wolfville
Acadia U. Memorial Gym Wolfville
Kentville Legion war memorial Kentville
Kentville Park war memorial Kentville
North Mountain airplane crash memorial Brow of Mountain
1967 Willow Park plaque Wolfville
Wellington Dyke Starrs Point
Fort Edward blockhouse Windsor
Planters monument Horton Landing
Acacia Villa School monument Hortonville
1747 Attack at Grand Pre Monument Grand Pre
Sir Robert Laird Borden Monument Grand Pre
Prescott House Starrs Point
Abraham Gesner Monument Chipman Corner
Blue Mountain Cemetery Association Blue Mountain
Arthur W.H. Eaton tombstone Kentville
Marguerite Woodworth tombstone Church Street