DIGBY

town, seat of Digby county, western Nova Scotia, Canada. It is situated on the isthmus of Digby Neck Peninsula, at the southern end of Annapolis Basin, an inlet of the Bay of Fundy. The original settlement in 1766 by New Englanders was destroyed by pirates, but in 1783 British admiral Robert Digby convoyed a group of United Empire Loyalists to resettle the site. Digby is now a popular summer resort and fishing port; it has a large scallop fishing fleet. Industries include lumbering, woodworking, and fish processing, especially of herring, known as Digby chickens, and scallops. The town is also the southern terminus of a car ferry from Saint John, N.B., 45 miles (72 km) to the north-northwest. Inc. 1890. Pop. (1991) 2,311.