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[[File:Westport post office – Brier Island, NS – (2018-08-31).jpg|thumb|right|The post office in Westport]]
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'''Westport, Nova Scotia''' is a village in [[Digby County, Nova Scotia]]<ref name="names">{{cite book |last1=Fergusson |first1=C. Bruce |author-link=Charles Bruce Fergusson |title=Place-Names and Places of Nova Scotia |date=1967 |publisher=[[Public Archives of Nova Scotia]] |location=Halifax, N.S. |page=727 |url=https://archives.novascotia.ca/places/page/?ID=727 |access-date=21 September 2025}}</ref> and it is located on [[Brier Island]] in the [[Bay of Fundy]]. As of 2021, the population was 193.<ref name=2021census/>

==History==
The settlement began with the arrival of David Welch and his family in 1769, as well as the Morrells. This was followed by the arrival of several more  [[United Empire Loyalist]] families in 1783.

The village was [[Municipal corporation|incorporated]] in 1946.

A ferry service connects the village with [[Freeport, Nova Scotia]] on Long Island. A second ferry runs from [[Digby Neck]] to Long Island.

[[Joshua Slocum]], the first person to sail solo around the world, grew up in Westport, where his mother was born. A monument in his memory was built on the southern end of the village.

Mathematician [[Roland Richardson]] was the principal of Westport's high school from 1899 to 1902.

== Demographics ==
In the [[2021 Canadian census|2021 Census of Population]] conducted by [[Statistics Canada]], Westport had a population of 193 living in 94 of its 119 total private dwellings, a change of {{percentage|{{#expr:193-218}}|218|1}} from its 2016 population of 218. With a land area of {{cvt|11.68|km2}}, it had a population density of {{Pop density|193|11.68|km2|sqmi|prec=1}} in 2021.<ref name=2021census>{{cite web | url=https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/cv.action?pid=9810001201 | title=Population and dwelling counts: Canada and designated places | publisher=[[Statistics Canada]] | date=February 9, 2022 | accessdate=May 9, 2022}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://ithieldavis.com/chapter6/ "Brier Island" ''The Davis Family'' online family history] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191228113910/http://ithieldavis.com/chapter6/ |date=2019-12-28 }}

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[[Category:Communities in Digby County, Nova Scotia]]
[[Category:Villages in Nova Scotia]]
[[Category:Designated places in Nova Scotia]]
[[Category:Unincorporated communities in Nova Scotia]]


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