Digby is a municipal

Municipality

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 district

District

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 in Digby County

Digby County, Nova Scotia

Digby County is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.Taking its name from the Township of Digby , which had been named in honour of Rear Admiral Robert Digby who dispatched HMS Atlanta to convey loyalists from New York City in the spring of 1783 to Conway, which became known as Digby,...

, Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia

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The district forms the eastern part of Digby County and uses the legal name The Municipality of the District of Digby. It is one of three municipal units in the county, the other two being the town of Digby

Digby, Nova Scotia

Digby is a Canadian town in western Nova Scotia. It is the shiretown and largest population centre in Digby County.The town is situated on the western shore of the Annapolis Basin near the entrance to the Digby Gut which connects the basin to the Bay of Fundy.Named after Admiral Robert Digby, RN,...

 and the Clare municipal district.

Demographics

Population trend

Census	Population	Change (%)
2006	7,986	3.6%
2001	8,281	7.2%
1996	8,926	3.3%
1991	9,230	N/A

Mother tongue language (2006)

Language	Population	Pct (%)
English only	7,555	94.73%
French only	285	3.58%
Other languages	110	1.38%
Both English and French	25	0.31%

Ethnic Groups (2006)

Race	Population	Pct (%)
White	7,630	95.67%
Black	340	4.26%
Latin American	10	0.12%

Communities

• Bear River
  Bear River, Nova Scotia
  Bear River is a small village situated at the head of the tidewaters of the Bear River. The river itself is the border between the Annapolis and Digby counties of Nova Scotia and thus, splits the village so that half the village is in one county and the other half in the other.The village is...
  
  
• Digby Neck
  Digby Neck
  Digby Neck is a Canadian peninsula extending into the Bay of Fundy in Digby County, Nova Scotia.Digby Neck is the western extension of the North Mountain range from the Annapolis Valley and is made of two thick lava flows. It is separated from the eastern portion of the North Mountain by a deep,...
  
  
• Brier Island
  Brier Island
  Brier Island is an island in the Bay of Fundy in Digby County, Nova Scotia.-Geography:The island is the western-most part of Nova Scotia and the southern end of the North Mountain ridge with Long Island lying immediately northeast; both islands constitute part of the Digby Neck...
  
  
• Long Island
  Long Island (Nova Scotia)
  Long Island is a Canadian island in Digby County, Nova Scotia.Situated in the Bay of Fundy immediately southwest of the Digby Neck, Brier Island is located immediately west...
  
  
• Plympton
  Plympton, Nova Scotia
  Plympton is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the District of Clare in Digby County .-References:*...
  
  
• Smith's Cove
  Smith's Cove, Nova Scotia
  Smith's Cove is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the The Municipality of the District of Digby. in Digby County .-References:*...
  
  
• Sandy Cove
  Sandy Cove, Digby, Nova Scotia
  Sandy Cove is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the The Municipality of the District of Digby. in Digby County on Digby Neck.-References:**...
  
  

Access routes

Highways and numbered routes that run through the district, including external routes that start or finish at the district limits:

• Highways

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• Trunk Routes

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• Collector Routes:

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• External Routes:
  • None

External links

• Municipality of the District of Digby: Official Site