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Compass roseGarden in the Gulf

Rhizomatic threads

Four tellings of one garden

Templar soil, a Chinese magnet, Glooscap’s pillow, and a French overlay. Read them in any order. None is the trunk.

  1. I

    Templar & Solomon’s Treasure

    New Eden as sacred repository

    In some tellings the Garden is not only fertile — it is a hiding ground. A plot of sacred soil where a fleeing order planted what it could not afford to lose.

  2. II

    Chinese Exploration

    Seeking resources, knowledge, Eden

    A magnet of fertile land and strategic water. If a fleet crossed the Pacific looking for a garden, this gulf would answer.

  3. III

    Mi’kmaq & Glooscap

    Mythic Eden, landscape shaper

    Before any fleet, the Gulf already had a maker. Glooscap shapes islands as a giant shapes a bed — and Prince Edward Island is his pillow.

  4. IV

    Colonial Overlap

    Contested Eden, exploited wealth

    Port-Royal plants a French garden north of Oak Island. Louisbourg rises as fortress and fishery. The Eden becomes a claim.