Digby, Nova Scotia (municipal District)
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Digby, officially named the Municipality of the District of Digby, is a
district municipality A district municipality is a designation for a class of municipalities found in several locations, including Canada, Lithuania, and South Africa. Canada British Columbia Under provincial law, municipalities in British Columbia are to be desi ...
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 in ...
,
Nova Scotia Nova Scotia is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada, located on its east coast. It is one of the three Maritime Canada, Maritime provinces and Population of Canada by province and territory, most populous province in Atlan ...
, Canada.
Statistics Canada Statistics Canada (StatCan; ), formed in 1971, is the agency of the Government of Canada commissioned with producing statistics to help better understand Canada, its population, resources, economy, society, and culture. It is headquartered in ...
classifies the district municipality as a
municipal district A municipal district is an administrative entity comprising a clearly-defined territory and its population. It may be a city, a town, a village, a small grouping of them, or a rural area. Brazil In Brazil, municipal districts are, in general, su ...
. 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
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.


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 Statistics Canada (StatCan; ), formed in 1971, is the agency of the Government of Canada commissioned with producing statistics to help better understand Canada, its population, resources, economy, society, and culture. It is headquartered in ...
, 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

* Acaciaville * Ashmore * Barton * Bayview * Bear River * Brier Island * Brighton * Central Grove * Centreville * Conway * Culloden * Doucetteville * East Ferry * Freeport * Gilberts Cove * Hillgrove * Jordantown *
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 *Mink Cove * Morganville *North Range *
Plympton Plympton is a suburb of the city of Plymouth in Devon, England. It is in origin an ancient Stannary, 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 riv ...
*Rossway * Sandy Cove *Seabrook *Sissiboo Falls * Smith's Cove *Tiddville *Tiverton *Westport *Weymouth *Weymouth Falls *Whale Cove


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 ** *Trunk Routes ** *Collector Routes: ** ** *External Routes: **None


See also

* List of francophone communities in Nova Scotia *
List of municipalities in Nova Scotia Nova Scotia is the Population of Canada by province and territory, seventh-most populous provinces and territories of Canada, province in Canada with 969,383 residents as of the Canada 2021 Census, 2021 Census of Population, and the List of Can ...


References


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Digby, Nova Scotia (Municipal District) Communities in Digby County, Nova Scotia District municipalities in Nova Scotia