Main-à-Dieu

Main-à-Dieu (population 240) is a community located in Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Regional Municipality. It is the most easterly community in Nova Scotia.

Main-à-Dieu
Unincorporated village
Harbour at Main-à-Dieu
Main-à-Dieu
Map Main-à-Dieu in Nova Scotia
Coordinates: 46°0′18.47″N 59°50′48.71″W
CountryCanada
ProvinceNova Scotia
MunicipalityCape Breton Regional Municipality

It is a fishing village, the homeport for a large lobster fishing fleet, and each spring at the start of lobster fishing season, the local parish priest holds a blessing of the fleet service dockside to pray for the safety of fishermen.

It once had an elementary school, with classes from grades primary to six, but it and several others were combined in 2000 into Riverside Elementary School, and the building has housed the Coastal Discovery Centre since 2004.

The centre includes the Fisherman's Museum, The Big Wave Café and the local library, all of which had previously been housed elsewhere in the community.

Less than half a kilometer from the discovery center is a sandy beach that stretches along the coast for more than a kilometer. A boardwalk was constructed along the beach in the mid-1990s.

Notable residents
gollark: Are you aware of the brief proliferation of x86-based tablets?
gollark: Which is disabled by default now.
gollark: CSM is disabled by default and such.
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gollark: I don't want to use Python because it'd just devolve into the incomprehensible mess which Minoteaur and RSAPI are. Rust is, and as previously mentioned. Nim would require me to copypaste my random utility libraries all over the place and they'd be bad.

References
  1. Michael Forgeron, Canadian Olympic team, retrieved 7 March 2016.


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