kept the Creamery operational from 1968 until it closed its doors in 1992. The Creamery was donated to the village with the stipulation that no structural changes were to be made to the build- ing’s exterior, including the name and colour. The Creamery Square Association was formed to develop the Creamery Square project. A new Farmers’ Market building opened in May 2006, and the Creamery building is now home to The Sunrise Trail Museum which show- cases artifacts from the 19th and 20th century including the Creamery exhibit. The Brule Fossil Centre offers exhibits of trackways that are 290 million years old. Plus, a diorama and interactive display focus on creatures from the Permian Era that might have made the tracks discovered on a beach at Brule (near Tatamagouche) in 1994. It also houses the Anna Swan Museum, which honours the life of the famed giantess Anna Swan (1846-1888) who was born and raised in the Tatamagouche area on the North
Shore of Nova Scotia. Anna reached a height of 7 feet 11 inches and weighed almost 400 pounds. Another notable person from Tatamagouche is Ron Joyce, the former Canadian entrepreneur who co-founded Tim Hortons in 1964 and help build it into one of the most successful food service chains in the world before selling the business to Wendy’s International Inc. in 1996. Ironically there has never been a Tim Horton’s in the village where Joyce was born. Joyce’s entrepreneurial spirit flows through this small village with many entrepreneurs wanting to move to the village to be part of the village’s revitalization of Main Street, which now attracts visitors to the area from all over the world. Main Street truly offers something for everyone within a one-kilometre stretch, including a local
Tatamagouche is a not-to-be-missed seaside village with a bustling Main Street in Colchester County, situated on the south side of Tat- amagouche Bay about 50 kilometres (31.1 mi) north of Truro and 50 kilometres (31.1 mi) west of Pictou. You’ll find a craft brewery, farmers’ market, handmade chocolates, freshly baked goodies, chowders, bike rentals, and restored rail cars that are now an inn, all within a one-kilometre stretch. Tatamagouche derives its name from the native Mi’kmaq term Takǔmegoochk, when translated means “Meeting of the waters.” The first European settlers in the Tatamagouche area were the French Acadians, who settled the area in the early 18th century, as Tatamagouche became a transshipment point for goods bound for the Fortress of Louisbourg. In the 19th century, like many other villages in the area, Tatamagouche had a sizable shipbuild- ing industry. Trees were plentiful and sawmills started appearing on area rivers, producing lumber for settlers. Builders needed the lumber to produce the ships and it was common to send a com- pleted vessel overseas loaded with lumber. However, the age of steam ended shipbuilding in Tatamagouche. One of the most famous landmarks in the village is the Tatama- gouche Creamery. In its day, most of the local farms supplied milk to the Creamery in order to produce its famous Tatamagouche Butter. Scotsburn Dairy Cooperative acquired the creamery and
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