At Cape Sable Cottages we want to make you feel at home...or even better,
to feel like our special guest!
Please, let us take a moment or two to introduce ourselves to you. We are PJ & Nancy Jones and we are the owners and operators of Cape Sable Cottages.
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A picture of us taken in the Sable Bay, 2002
We have tried to take all your needs and comforts into consideration as we built and designed these
seaside cottage homes- hopefully you'll find that we were successful in that aspect.
Before the actual
building began, we were in the planning and praying stages for about 3 years... its a long story,
but we'd be happy to share it with you over a coffee on the deck :o)
PJ and I have always been "people people" and its proven to be a requirement for this business...
since the pay isn't that great, there has to be some reward and so far we have found that the ultimate reward
is meeting you... the people we get to meet are just amazing...and we eagerly anticipate each and every arrival...
as PJ often says "I wonder who we'll meet today!"... hopefully it will be you.
Before I get lost in my thoughts, I should also tell you that we are the proud (usually) parents
of Laura (15), Melissa (soon to be 14) and Thane (almost 12) as well as pseudo parents to Ginger- our overly
spoiled mixed breed canine (who would be down right INSULTED if she thought she was a dog!).
This picture of the kids was taken
a couple years ago at the official opening of the cottages...
I'll try
to post a more recent one soon.
We have lived here on Long Point for 16 years, this being where we built when we were first married.
The land has 'always' been in PJ's family- being settled by the Island's first white settlers when
Archelaus Smith's son James built here in the 1700's. Up until 100 years ago there were several homes
and barns on 'the Point'... these have all been reclaimed by the ravages of time and now its just the
cottages and us- although the cottages are on their own private acreage. PJ & I are aslo history
buffs, and as he likes to work with his hands and be outdoors when he isn't working at his "paying" job,
PJ has undertaken the restoration of several historic projects on the Point- all by hand, NO machines
at all.... right now he is still
reclaiming a hand dug, rocked up well- which will provide an abundant water source for his hand dug
vegetable garden (no pesticides, herbicides, etc...just the natural for us, please). The well was dug
150+ years ago and had for 50+ years been filled in and forgotten about...that is, until PJ had some
idle time on his hands... at this point he has it excavated by hand and bucket down about 17 feet, with 6 or more feet to
go until he hits bottom. Its an amazing sight- this well is no bigger than 3' in diameter- just big
enough for a small person to climb into (fortunately that lets me out!!- there are some advantages
to being 'big boned'!). Hard to imagine the settlers digging this all out by hand...I can't begin to
comprehend the amount of work they had to do just to survive. I've included a picture...but make sure you
ask PJ to show it to you...its worth seeing.
Another of PJ's projects has been restoring and creating
rock walls. In order to graze the cattle and sheep that every household had, one had to erect rock
walls to prevent them from roaming where they shouldn't go. All over Long Point there are remenants
of these old walls, some sunken into the ground as plants, trees and bushes grew over them for decades
on end. Some walls were broken to allow passage through them with carts and wagons and later vehicles.
Seeing as there is NO shortage of rocks here on the Island (the local joke is that this is where Noah
dumped his ballast rock from the Ark...) PJ has found an ample supply from which to refurbish the old
walls as well as build many new ones. He has completed the rock walls for cottages #3 (Victoria's Garden
Cottage) and #5 (Sable Bay) and is now working on #1 (Schooner Lodge's)... needless to say its hard
and time consuming work...but he loves it.
The Rock Wall of the Sable Bay
The Walls at Victoria's Garden Cottage
While PJ is doing all the heavy, hard manual 'hands on'
labour... I'm probably in the office doing the necessary paper work and bookkeeping. Together we make
a great team...and this is definately a team game.
Sorry to ramble...I'll end the introduction here... but if you still want to know more about what makes
us 'tick' click here and I'll continue with the intro.
Otherwise, please use the map at the top of this page or the links below to take you to another page on our site.
Many thanks for your interest.
We have tried to take every care in preparing these homes for you. When we
travel ourselves, we appreciate the best, and therefore we want to offer
nothing but our best to you.
Cape Sable Cottages are deluxe seaside cottage homes and we sincerely invite
you to
"Come, Be Our Guest."
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