Digby, officially named the Municipality of the District of Digby, is a
district municipality in
Digby County
Digby County is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.
History
It was named after the Township of Digby; this was named in honour of Rear Admiral Robert Digby, who dispatched HMS ''Atalanta'' to convey Loyalists from New York City ...
,
Nova Scotia, Canada.
Statistics Canada classifies the district municipality as a
municipal district.
The district municipality forms the eastern part of Digby County. It is one of three municipal units in the county, the other two being the
Town of Digby and the
Municipality of the District of Clare
Clare, officially named the Municipality of the District of Clare, is a List of district municipalities in Nova Scotia#District municipality, district municipality in western Nova Scotia, Canada. Statistics Canada classifies the district municip ...
.
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population
The 2021 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population with a reference date of May 11, 2021. It follows the 2016 Canadian census, which recorded a population of 35,151,728. The overall response rate was 98%, which is sli ...
conducted by
Statistics Canada, the Municipality of the District of Digby had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
Communities
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Bear River
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Gilberts Cove
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Little River, Digby, Nova Scotia
Little River is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in The Municipality of the District of Digby. in Digby County on Digby Neck. Little River is a small fishing
Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish. Fi ...
*Marshalltown
*Jordantown
*Conway
*Acaciaville
*Hillgrove
*North Range
*Brighton
*Barton
*Weymouth
*Sissiboo Falls
*Weymouth Falls
*Doucetteville
*Ashmore
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Morganville
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Plympton
Plympton is a suburb of the city of Plymouth in Devon, England. It is in origin an ancient stannary town. It was an important trading centre for locally mined tin, and a seaport before the River Plym silted up and trade moved down river to P ...
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Smith's Cove
*Culloden
*Bayview
*Rossway
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Sandy Cove
*Centreville
*Mink Cove
*Tiddville
*Whale Cove
*East Ferry
*Tiverton
*Central Grove
*Freeport
*Westport
*Seabrook
Access routes
Highways and numbered routes that run through the district municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the municipal boundary:
[Atlantic Canada Back Road Atlas Pages 76-77, 84-85]
*Highways
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*Trunk Routes
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*Collector Routes:
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*External Routes:
**None
See also
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List of municipalities in Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia is the seventh-most populous province in Canada with 969,383 residents as of the 2021 Census of Population, and the second-smallest province in land area at . Nova Scotia's 49 municipalities cover of the territory's land mass, a ...
References
External links
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Digby, Nova Scotia (Municipal District)
Communities in Digby County, Nova Scotia
District municipalities in Nova Scotia