Fisherman's Cove, Eastern Passage, Nova Scotia, Canada

Nova Scotians created many local fishing memorials around their coasts from the 1990s, to remember and name where possible, everyone lost to the sea who had sailed from these harbours. It was also a reaction to the collapse of the Grand Banks cod fishery in 1992 that destroyed around 30,000 jobs almost overnight because it wasn't clear that many of these communities would survive. 

This is the memorial stone and bench raised in what was called The Crick or The Cove by the settlers for 200 years before it was renamed Fisherman's Cove in the 1990s, at Eastern Passage, east of Halifax, Nova Scoti

Before the settlers arrived the Indigenous Mi'kmaq people fished this area for over 10,000 years and called it Dwid-nu-ick or Dwidnuik, which means Little Passage. 

The inscription reads,

The Fisherman's Memorial Monument is dedicated to all those people who sail from the community of Eastern Passage to make their livlihood from the sea and who also enrich our culture and heritage. 

To all those who have sailed from our port and lost their lives to the power of the sea. You will always be in our thoughts and prayers. 

Let this memorial stand forever for those brave souls lost at sea, we will remember and always cherish the life you shared. It was meant to be. 

                                              

Detail of the etching above right.