- Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia
Shubenacadie is a community located in Hants County, in central
Nova Scotia ,Canada . As of 2001, the population was 906.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 [http://tidalborerafting.com/2008/index.html] , Shubenacadie Tidal Bore River Rafting and Cottages [http://www.tidalboreraftingpark.com/] and Shubenacadie River Adventure Tours [http://shubie.com/] .
Shubenacadie is also home to the Shubenacadie Wildlife Park, and the Greenwing Facility, a Ducks Unlimited wetlands interpretation centre. [http://wildlifepark.gov.ns.ca/] . The wildlife park houses animals native to North America including: black bears,
deer ,moose ,wolves , Sable Island Ponies and more. The park and Greenwing Facility are open year-round. School programs are offered throughout the year, and interpretive programs are ongoing throughout the summer months. Each year Shubenacadie Sam predicts the arrival of spring onGroundhog Day .Shubenacadie has a little museum called the Tin Smith Shop [http://www.tinshopmuseum.ca/] . 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 [http://www.atlanticmotorsportpark.com/] one of North America's only, if not only, active, full-time road racing tracks that is owned and operated completely by volunteers.Shubenacadie was home to a Canadian residential school from 1922 to 1968. It was the only residential school in
Atlantic Canada . The purpose of theCanadian residential school system was to forcefully assimilateFirst Nations people into the non-native culture.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."
Famous residents
*Native American activist
Anna Mae Aquash was born near Shubenacadie.
*Shubenacadie Sam, agroundhog who gives predictions onGroundhog Day .External links
* [http://home.rushcomm.ca/~hsack Michael T Sack's page about Indian Brook First Nation]
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