Back in time

A piece of history is coming to life today in Wolfville.

Jackie Queally will give a talk today in Wolfville about the background of Henry St. Clair who made a sea voyage in 1398 to Nova Scotia.

Queally, a resident of the United Kingdom, will look at archaeological, linguistic and map evidence, and parallel research in Norway and Greenland. She will also address the possibility of another dimension to the tale borne out by geomantic research by an ex Naval commander.

According to author/historian Fredrick J. Pohl, the glory should go to Henry St. Clair or Prince Henry Sinclair, Earl of Orkney, who set off on a voyage of discovery for “a very great country.”

He is alleged to have dropped anchor in Guysborough Harbour on June 2, 1398 almost a century before Columbus’s and Cabot’s Historic voyages.

Pohl wrote a book in 2007 that indicated St. Clair may have visited the Bay of Fundy and possibly travelled inland to New Ross.

Queally’s talk will take place at 2 p.m. in the hall at St. John’s Anglican Church. Open to the public, it is sponsored by the Wolfville and Area Historical Society.