News from the wharf…..

The Arisaig Community  Development Association (A.C.D.A.)  represents the villages of Knoydart, McArra’s Brook, Arisaig, Doctor’s Brook, Malignant Cove and West Maryvale along the North Shore on the Gulf of St. Lawrence.  They are linked through the wharf at Arisaig Point and the Community Hall across the Sunrise Trail (Hwy 245) from Arisaig’s St Margaret’s Parish Church.

COMMUNITY  NEWS

FINALLY SOME GOOD NEWS

THE  LIGHTHOUSE  RE – OPENS

The  Lighthouse  Ice Cream Shack   is open at last!!!

For now, Hours:  1 PM  to  8 PM

TUESDAY   thru   SUNDAY  (Closed Mondays & rainy days.)

Service  through  the window at side  /  no entrance into Lighthouse.

THE  DOCKSIDE  CAFE

closed this summer – until further notice.

The Lobster Fishery & Marina

•  23 boats and their lobster fishermen have finished the fishing season.
• some boats still go out for other catch during the summer.  

 The Marina

• 45.761 N  x  62.171  W      We are on Atlantic Daylight Time.
• INFORMATION ON USE OF BOAT SLIPS THIS SUMMER IS NOT AVAILABLE AT PRESENT TIME
• The great beach still close at hand
• open daily in summer – no parking during the lobster season !!!

 ARISAIG Provincial Park

& INTERPRETIVE CENTRE

2020:  opens late  May  through the early fall.

If gate is closed, Park at gate & walk in…

  The goal continues to recreate the  Acadian  Forest as it would have been before humans arrived in the area.

 Park Replanting  …  the long-term project

• Continues in 2020 with more young trees being planted throughout the season.
• White pines and yellow birches planted earlier in large numbers among the downed trees in the areas that have been felled in response to the devastation  of the spruce stand which has hit the park. These saplings should overtake the landscape as the cut trees go back to nature.
• The wide swaths of felled trees are planned fire-breaks. Many of them are showing new signs of life while others have yet to flourish.

The eventual goal is to recreate an Acadian Forest environment, with only trees that grew naturally in Nova Scotia before mankind arrived.

 WHERE WE ARE:

Arisaig, Nova Scotia, Canada