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Mabou, Inverness County, Cape Breton

The Township of Mabou
Off Route 19
60 km (37 miles) from the Canso Causeway

Here is a rare thing indeed - a monument for a former slave, one of Mabou's first settlers! Pegg, as she was called, was born into slavery in Georgia, USA around 1770. She came to Nova Scotia with a Loyalist Family in 1784.

Pegg died in 1815, a free woman, and was buried in the Mabou First Settlers Graveyard on the Rankinville Road. A monument to her memory was erected in 1999 by the descendants of the family who had enslaved her. Close by, on South West Ridge road, is a miniature Mother of Sorrows church, erected in memory of the pioneers of the Mabou area. Inside of the Church is a shrine dedicated to Our Lady of Seven Sorrows.

Open daily, year-round.

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