Main-à-Dieu (population 242) is a community located in

Nova Scotia Nova Scotia ( ; ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces. Nova Scotia is Latin for "New Scotland". Most of the population are native Eng ...

's Cape Breton Regional Municipality. It is the most easterly community in Nova Scotia. It is a fishing village, the homeport for a large

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

Notable residents

* Michael Forgeron, Olympic rowerMichael Forgeron
Canadian Olympic team, retrieved 7 March 2016.

References

External links

Coastal Discovery Centre
General Service Areas in Nova Scotia Communities in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality {{CapeBretonNS-geo-stub