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List of communities in Digby County, Nova Scotia Communities are ordered by the highway on which they are located, whose routes start after each terminus near the largest community. Trunk route
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Digby is an incorporated town in southwestern Nova Scotia, Canada. It is in the historical county of Digby and a separate municipality from the Municipality of the District of Digby . The town is situated on the western shore of the Annapolis Basin near the entrance to the Digby Gut , which connects the basin to the Bay of Fundy .
The Crown resettled thousands of Loyalists in Nova Scotia and other areas of Canada. Digby County was established in 1837. Previously, from August 17, 1759, when Nova Scotia was first divided into counties, this area had been part of Annapolis County. In 1861, Digby County was divided into two sessional districts: Digby and Clare.
Established in 1874 by R.S. McCormick, it served Digby County and was owned by TC Transcontinental. [1] [2] In January 2016, it was merged with two other weekly newspapers, the Yarmouth Vanguard and the Shelburne Coast Guard, to form the Tri-County Vanguard. The last issue of the Digby Courier was published on January 28, 2016. [3]
A blockhouse was built at the site in the 1750s to protect Halifax from attacks by the Mi'kmaq people.The land was subsequently developed as small farms. In 1893, the land was acquired by a private company, the Fairview Lawn Cemetery Limited, for a non-denominational cemetery because the Camp Hill Cemetery in the centre of the city was running out of room.
A ferry service connects the village with Freeport, Nova Scotia on Long Island. A second ferry runs from Digby Neck to Long Island. Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail solo around the world, grew up in Westport, where his mother was born. A monument in his memory was built on the southern end of the village.