Story:Henry Sinclair May Have Visited Nova Scotia
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The Sinclair Society in Nova Scotia and various fans of the Knights Templar \ Holy Grail story propose the following historical scenario:
In 1393, Henry Sinclair, Prince of the Orkney Islands, sent a Venetian admiral, Nicolo Zeno, to carry out a survey of Greenland, in preparation for their journey to the New World. Before embarking on what was considered a risky endeavor, Sinclair made provisions for transferring some of his lands to his brothers and eldest daughter. He then took to the sea with 12 vessels, Zeno navigating, and 200-300 fellow voyagers, made up of monks and fugitive Templars. He landed in Cape Breton on June 2, 1398, and Guysborough, Nova Scotia on June 12, 1398.
The Sinclair Society claims that Sinclair's logs in Venice record such a trip.
Born at Rosslyn Castle near Edinburgh in 1345, Henry Sinclair became Earl of Rosslyn and the surrounding lands as well as Prince of Orkney, Duke of Oldenburg (Denmark), and Premier Earl of Norway.
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The Zeno Narrative reads:
Statue of Prince Henry at the Noss Head Sinclair Study Centre, Caithness, ScotlandSinclair departs from Iceland - "Sinclair, seeing he could do nothing, and that if we were to persevere in this attempt, the fleet would fall short of provisions, took his departure with a fair wind and sailed 6 days to the westwards; but the winds afterwards shifting to the southwest, and the sea becoming rough, we sailed 4 days with the wind aft and finally sighted land."
"As the sea ran high and we did not know what country it was, we were afraid at first to approach it, but by God's blessing the wind lulled, and then there came on a great calm. Some of the crew pulled ashore and soon returned with great joy with news that they found an excellent country and a still better harbour."
"After eight days the 100 soldiers returned, and brought work that they had been through the island and up to the hill, and that the smoke was a natural thing proceeding from a great fire in the bottom of the hill, and that there was a spring from which issued a certain substance like pitch, which ran into the sea, and that thereabouts dwelt a great many people half wild, and living in caves. They were of small stature and very timid. They reported also there was a large river, and a very good and safe harbor."
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The Mi'qmaq Connection
Some say Sinclair or a member of his crew lived among the Micmacs long enough to be remembered in legend as the man-god Glooscap. Micmac legend speaks of bearded visitors with red hair and green eyes who showed them how to fish with nets.
Science fiction writer Frederick Pohl, in Prince Henry Sinclair, also identifies Gooscap as Henry Sinclair. Pohl has a list of 17 specific similarities between Glooscap and Sinclair, including the fact that they each had three daughters. In memory of Sinclair's parting, the Micmacs traditionally chanted: "Nemajeeck, Numeedich." This is similar to an old Norse sea-chantey sung when weighing anchor: "Nu mo jag, nu mo deg."
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The Templar Connection
Some Holy Grail fans feel Sinclair was connected with the Templars, and was bringing the Holy Family to Canada. His ancestor and namesake, Henri de Saint-Clair fought beside Godfroi de Bouillon at the taking of Jerusalem. Several Saint-Clairs became Templars themselves. Many Templars fled to Scotland, after the dissolution of 1312, and some found refuge among the Saint-Clairs of Rosslyn in Midlothian. There is a Templar cemetery there.
The chapel at Rosslyn - built between 1446 and 1486 - has long been associated with both Freemasonry and the Rose-Croix. Grail Seeker Trevor Ravenscroft claimed in 1962 that he had finished a twenty year quest in search of the Grail at Rosslyn chapel.....His claim was that the Grail was inside the Prentice Pillar (as it is known) in this chapel.
According to Michael Bradley, Holy Grail Across the Atlantic:
"Burning pitch deposits at Stellarton [Nova Scotia] behind Mt. Adams were responsible for the 'burning hill' Sinclair's explorers first thought they saw. The description confirms Cape Caruso as the area of landfall on June 2, 1398."
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The Oak Island Connection
According to a Micmac Legend, "Glooscap built himself an island, planted trees on it, and sailed away in his stone canoe."
Templar fans speculate that Sinclair was on a mission to move the Templar's treasure to safer ground. Some suggest Oak Island's "money pit" may hold the Templar's lost treasure, buried for safekeeping by Henry Sinclair and his shipmates 600 years ago.
Fans say Zeno's Narrative in Venice documents the exploration of Nova Scotia during the next year. The explorers supposedly traveled to Cape D'Or and Advocate and built a ship there. There is evidence that they erected a small castle in New Ross, near Oak Island.
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Les Bergers d'Arcadie, by Nicholas Poussin
The Champlain / Sulpician Connection
In The Da Vinci Code and Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, the Prieure de Sion, a murky semi-secret group with an unbroken chain of grand-masters all the way back to the Merovingians and the descendants of Christ and Mary Magdalene, claims the French St. Clairs were the guardians of the secret of the Holy Blood. The founding of "Acadia" by deMonts and Champlain may come into the scenario.
Timothy C. Green says - "Samuel de Champlain was in on the scheme for when he showed up 200 years later, he did what he could to hide the existence of the refuge (his normally detailed maps became vague in the area, his reports were deliberately false with respect to prospects for settlers). As a result, colonization of the area was slowed down for about a generation until the family could be moved to Ville Marie (Montreal), not hidden this time, but disguised as the Sulpician religious order."
Others say Poussin's painting, "Les Bergers d'Arcadie" is related to coded messages from the Rennes-le-Chateau parchments, and the figures in the painting relate to names in Nova Scotia (Acadia).
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