Where is tabusintac

So why would Sally Armstrong, a high-profile journalist and worldwide proponent of women's rights, choose the founder of such an unobtrusive little community as the subject for a novel?

The answer is simple. Armstrong, like most of Tabusintac's approximately 1, residents, can trace her roots back to her book's protagonist, Charlotte Taylor-frequently called "the mother of Tabusintac. Loraine and Myles Wishart, Armstrong's aunt and uncle, live in the house where the original home of this remarkable female pioneer was built.

In October , I wrote my editorial column in Homemaker's Magazine about Charlotte… I heard from her descendents all over the world. That's when I decided I wanted to write the book, but my editors kept dispatching me to Bosnia and Somalia and Rwanda and Afghanistan. Finally in I took time off and settled down to tell her story. Certainly Charlotte's real-life story furnished more than sufficient romance and adventure to fill a novel.

In May , pregnant by her father's black butler, the year-old eloped with her lover from her home in Sussex, England. Together they travelled to the West Indies, where they planned to start a new life. However ten days after the couple's arrival in Jamaica, Charlotte's partner died of yellow fever.

Deciding the island wasn't the place for her, Charlotte managed passage north to the Youghall Bathurst area of Chaleur Bay. There, among the Mi'kmaq, she gave birth to a daughter she named Elizabeth. Over the next 60 years she had three husbands, nine more children, and acquired considerable tracts of land. Eventually she settled permanently at Wishart's Point, named for her second husband, in Tabusintac. But it was clear the family had a powerful respect for a woman long dead, as if their own fortitude and guile were family traits passed down from the ancestral matriarch.

Of course, Charlotte Taylor legends have been part of Tabusintac folklore for as long as anyone can remember. An American author was probably the first to write about her. The Sporting Life The inconspicuous rural nature of the area played a major role in the success of the business begun by Charlotte's great grandson, a quarter century after her death. The unspoiled hinterland, comfortably remote from the bustle of town or city with its mile frontage on the Tabusintac Lagoon, prompted John B.

Wishart to begin an enterprise that would provide employment for many area residents, creating spin-offs affecting Tabusintac's future development for more than years. In the mids he began welcoming US sportspeople as paying guests into the home that had once belonged to Charlotte.

Over the years wealthy Americans like the Rockefellers found the privacy they sought, combined with excellent hunting and fishing. Country hospitality also played a major role in keeping people coming back year after year-for example guests were treated to excellent seaside country cuisine.

Evening meals frequently began with oysters on the half shell, progressing to local lobster or salmon. Dessert might entail freshly baked blueberry or apple pie. And, of course, warm homemade bread was a staple at each meal. While the women were busy preparing culinary delights for their visitors, local men were at work guiding them to the best hunting and fishing locations, and carving the hundreds of decoys necessary for successful waterfowl hunting.

Some of these wooden lures captured the details of ducks and geese with a realism that made them decorative as well as functional. In the late s, plastic decoys began to replace the more cumbersome wooden ones, and most of the waterfowl carvers abandoned their work. Hundreds of hand-carved decoys were thrown into the oblivion of barns and sheds.

Then, in the s an American collector was passing through Tabusintac, and took as many as he could with him back to Maine. He later started the world-famous decoy auction house Guyette and Schmidt Inc. Contemporary Charms These days Tabusintac decoys carved by men such as Arch Morrison and Guy Robertson are valued folk art, fetching hundreds of dollars each at Guyette and Schmidt, now allied with Christies of New York.

And while there aren't many of the traditional carvers left in Tabusintac, men like Lorne Stymiest still create decoys with pride. They're functional in rivers or marshes; however they're more likely to be found adorning homes and cottages.

Traditional hobbies are continued by Tabusintac women as well. Each Monday a group meets at the community centre to fashion quilts, one meticulous stitch after another. Good, hearty meals are also still part of the lifestyle-you won't find a lot of prepared foods or ready-to-go meals in the little community, but you can treat yourself to a hearty breakfast each Saturday morning at the country market in the community centre, and shop for crafts and baked goods.

We saw it as way to enhance community spirit, honour our traditions and attract visitors. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A ie- Tabusintac to Point B. If you need the driving distance, we recommend that you use one of the Mapping Services listed on our Map Page for Tabusintac. Since we usually use Google Maps, we've provided the following link for your convenience: Google Map and Driving Directions starting from Tabusintac Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Tabusintac.

The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: We are not confident about the location and the position of our marker is only a rough guide. If we have too many doubts about the location, we will not include it in our database.

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