Stewiacke
Stewiacke | ||
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Town | ||
![]() Town of Stewiacke Public Works Building and Cenotaph | ||
Telephone Exchange 639, 671 | | |
Median Earnings* | $55,339 | |
NTS Map | 11E3 Shubenacadie | |
GNBC Code | CBKOM[3] | |
Website | stewiacke.net | |
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Stewiacke (
Geography
The town is located in the Stewiacke Valley, at the confluence of the Stewiacke and Shubenacadie Rivers, and is a service and support centre for local agricultural communities as well as a service exit on Highway 102.
The town is noted as being located halfway between the North Pole and the Equator (which is actually in Alton, Nova Scotia).[4] Controversy in the past over that claim stems from the fact that the Earth is not a perfect sphere and so the halfway mark lies approximately 16 km north of the 45th parallel.[5]
History
Stewiacke was named in the language of the local Mi'kmaq First Nations and is a word meaning "flowing out in small streams" and "winding river" or "whimpering or whining as it goes".[6] During the French and Indian War, the British built Fort Ellis in the area to protect New England Planters from Mi'kmaq raids.
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In the late 1990s, a tourism attraction named Mastodon Ridge opened near the town's highway exit, based on a local discovery of a
Stewiacke is home to a bar, a pharmacy, a grocery store, a pizzeria, numerous fast food restaurants, two gas stations, a hardware store, an 18-hole golf course and a newly built elementary school that consolidates 2 former local schools.
Stewiacke is also home to a volunteer fire brigade that was the first department in North America to use specialized foam as a fire suppression agent, alongside other achievements involving the implementation of certain fire apparatus.
The town's most notorious event occurred on April 12, 2001, when a local teenager, at home on a school in-service day, tampered with a railway switch on the
In 2023, the Boston Christmas Tree came from Stewiacke.[9]
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Stewiacke had a population of 1,557 living in 713 of its 739 total private dwellings, a change of 13.4% from its 2016 population of 1,373. With a land area of 17.62 km2 (6.80 sq mi), it had a population density of 88.4/km2 (228.9/sq mi) in 2021.[13]
Parks and trails
- Dennis Park
- Stewiacke River Park
- Stewiacke Recreation Grounds
- Barking Lot - Off Leash Dog Park
- John Crawford Trail
- Stewiacke River Country Trail
- Fish Shack Trail
- Caddell Rapids Lookoff Provincial Park
Notable residents
- Hanson Dowell (1906–2000), president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association and member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly[14]
See also
References
- ^ "Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), 2016 and 2011 censuses – 100% data (Nova Scotia)". Statistics Canada. February 8, 2017. Retrieved February 12, 2017.
- ^ "Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), 2016 and 2011 censuses – 100% data (Nova Scotia)". Statistics Canada. 8 February 2017. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
- ^ "Stewiacke". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada.
- ^ "The Burnside News - Burnside entrepreneur to develop Stewiacke industrial park". BurnsideNews.com. Archived from the original on 2009-04-16. Retrieved 2009-04-19.
- Bibcode:2000JRASC..94...48B. Retrieved 2009-04-19.
- ^ "Museum, Government of Nova Scotia - 511 Windsor Lowlands". Museum.gov.ns.ca. Archived from the original on 2009-05-22. Retrieved 2009-04-19.
- ^ a b "Youth sentenced to six months for derailing train". CBC.ca. 2002-11-06. Retrieved 2020-01-04.
- ^ "Teen faces victims of N.S. train wreck". CBC.ca. 2002-08-30. Retrieved 2020-01-04.
- WCVB. November 3, 2023. Retrieved November 4, 2023.
- ^ Census 1956-1961
- ^ I:\ecstats\Agency\BRIAN\census2 NS Department of Finance Archived 2013-10-05 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Statistics Canada, 2011
- ^ "Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions (municipalities), Nova Scotia". Statistics Canada. February 9, 2022. Retrieved March 12, 2022.
- ^ "Dowell, Hanson T. (The Honourable, QC) — 94". The Chronicle Herald. Halifax, Nova Scotia. September 25, 2000. p. 37. Archived from the original on October 4, 2021. Retrieved December 7, 2020.
External links
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