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been on the lips of observers or at the tips
of writing implements. In ancient Greek,
as well as in Shakespeare’s play, Love’s
Labours Lost, in the line, “beauty is bought
by judgement of the eye,” the thought
has been passed through the ages. It is
thought that after appearing in Margaret
Hungerford’s book, Molly Brown, published
in 1878, the proverb was widely circulated
in the form we most often use – “beauty is
in the eye of the beholder.”
So what do you see when you look
across at the looming mass of Cape
George on the mainland of Nova Scotia?
Do you see the location of a lighthouse that
has warned mariners since 1861 to stay
away from the shoals and rocks of the tip of
Cape George? Do you see the location of
a wharf and fishing station that has existed
for well over a hundred years? Do you look
for lobster traps piled on the shore? Do you
find the view of great loveliness?
Did Nicholas Denys, the explorer,
entrepreneur and French governor of the
area in the 1600s, see the beauty of the
place or merely the potential wealth in
the fish in the bay and the lumber on the
mountainside? It was probably he who
gave it the name found on early maps
– “Cap St. Louis” for the kings of France.
By the time of the mapping done by J. F.
W. DesBarres in the 1700s, the promontory
gained the name of the patron saint of
England, “St. George.” Hence, for some
years, the adjacent bay was called “St.
George’s Bay.” But although George was
a noted dragon-slayer, no sea monsters
have been noted. And gradually, the
name was shortened to Cape George as
it remains today. And so it was known by
the early settlers from Philadelphia and
from England and from Scotland – people
such as the Grahams along with thirty
other immigrants received a grant of one
thousand acres in 1792. From them came
a long line of sea captains and sailors who
set forth to journey beyond what they could
see from their homes near the shore.
Standing on the height of the cape
above the pioneer log house of the Graham
family and looking out to Cape Breton with
its similar mountains and its valleys, with its
long sea coast stretching out of sight, were
the newly married Ebenezer Leadbetter
and his wife Mary Graham curious about
what lay just on the other side of the bay?
He was a native of central Nova Scotia,
and she was one of the earliest children of
Scottish immigrants born on Cape George.
On a search for a new place to live, he had
arrived at Cape George and met Mary.
They decided to try their chances along
the side of the exit of the Mabou River.
So sailing across the Bay of St. George,
they came to be among the first settlers at
Mabou Harbour Mouth shortly after their
marriage in 1812 or 1813. To be sure,
the young couple could see back to Cape
George from the hill above their newly built
log house. But as adventurers of a sort,
they were enticed by new opportunities.
And so it was with their descendants
– Ebenezer, the son of Ebenezer and Mary,
moved on up the river to settle for a time
in Southeast Mabou, but then he set out
across the country for the Portree area of
Northeast Margaree. There he and his wife,
Ann Ross Leadbetter, raised their children
(including Ebenezer, the third of that name
in a row). The family seems to have been
lured on by a wish to see what was beyond
the next headland or on the other side of
the hill across the river.
Beauty and imagination and opportunity
are always in the eye of the beholder and
individually interpreted. And so it was, it
would seem, that in the next generation,
while David Leadbetter moved to Port
Hood where he could see across to his
ancestral home on Cape George, three of
his brothers sailed around Cape George
and on to Pugwash, Nova Scotia and then
were anxious to see what lay beyond. That
energetic will to keep moving in search of
something different (and maybe better) that
lay just out of sight brought them to the
town of Emporium in western Pennsylvania
where they worked as loggers and then for
a dynamite manufacturing company. One
hundred years of change of locale in the
annals of the Leadbetter family!
Were the opportunities in the developing
industrial area of Pennsylvania better than
those in Margaree? Or those at Mabou
Harbour? Or those at Cape George? The
answers lie in the minds of the participants.
　
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