Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia

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Shubenacadie is a community located in Hants County, in central Nova Scotia, Canada. As of 2001, the population was 906.

1 About Shubenacadie
2 Origin of name
3 Famous residents
4 External links

[edit] About Shubenacadie

The town has a center with several shops and services. Shubenacadie is known for having the world's highest tides and boasts several river running companies where guests can travel the waves of the historic Shubenacadie River. These companies include The Shubenacadie River Runners [1], Shubenacadie Tidal Bore River Rafting and Cottages [2] and Shubenacadie River Adventure Tours [3].

Shubenacadie is also home to the Shubenacadie Wildlife Park [4]. This park houses animals native to North America including: black bears, deer, moose, wolves, Sable Island Ponies and more. The park is open year-round and is made famous every year when Shubenacadie Sam predicts the arrival of spring on Groundhog Day.

Shubenacadie has a little museaum called the Tin Smith Shop [5]. Dating back to the early 1890s the building was originally used as a milk can fabrication facility and hardware store. In 2000, after the property was left to the townsfolk by Harry Smith it was opened as museum. It features:

The Hardware Store - with all its colourful 1920s clutter.
Tin Smith Shop - with all the original equipment intact from the 1890s.
Craft shop and gift store, staffed & stocked by local Nova Scotian artists.
Additional exhibits - veterans memorial, clothing, household goods, farm tools, etc.

A short distance outside Shubenacadie (11 kilometers) one can find Atlantic Motorsport Park [6] [7] one of North America's only, if not only, active, full-time road racing tracks that is owned and operated completely by volunteers.

[edit] Origin of name

In the Micmac language, Shubenacadie (or Segubunakade) means "abounding in ground nuts" or "place where the red potato (i.e. Indian potato, Sagittaria latifolia) grows."