English: Stopped here to get directions to the next lighthouse - not much help. When I did find the lighthouse I stopped back to tell them the directions. The Ottawa House By-The-Sea Museum, located 3 miles from downtown, was once owned by Sir Charles Tupper, MD, a distinguished Nova Scotian Politician who was Prime Minister of Canada for 16 days in 1896. Ottawa House is open as a Museum and has displays on shipbuilding, early education and the Victorian era. From the veranda of Ottawa House you see Partridge Island, which is now joined to the mainland. In 1869, during a ferocious storm known as the Saxby Gale, storm waters drove the beach inland, creating a large bar that connected the island to the mainland.