Meat Cove is a rural

Rural

Rural areas or the country or countryside are areas that are not urbanized, though when large areas are described, country towns and smaller cities will be included. They have a low population density, and typically much of the land is devoted to agriculture...

 fishing community at the northern tip of Inverness County

Inverness County, Nova Scotia

Inverness County is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. Its territory is almost contiguous with the Municipality of Inverness County, which only excludes the town of Port Hawkesbury and First Nation reserves.-History:...

 on Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the most populous province in Atlantic Canada. The name of the province is Latin for "New Scotland," but "Nova Scotia" is the recognized, English-language name of the province. The provincial capital is Halifax. Nova Scotia is the...

's Cape Breton Island

Cape Breton Island

Cape Breton Island is an island on the Atlantic coast of North America. It likely corresponds to the word Breton, the French demonym for Brittany....

. Fisherman fish for lobster in the months of May & July. After the lobster season they fish for crab.

Meat Cove is accessed on an unpaved road off the Cabot Trail. The approach is from the highlands down a steep road to the sparsely settled village in the cove. The permanent population is less than 100.

Meat Cove is the most northerly settlement in Nova Scotia and is located in the Sydney—Victoria

Sydney—Victoria

Sydney–Victoria is a federal electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1997. Its population in 2006 was 76,801...

 federal electoral district.

Since Meat Cove is literally at the end of the road and accessible only by a dirt road, it is often used by wilderness campers as a starting point for the relatively short hike to Grassy Point, or the more arduous three or four day trek to Pollett's Cove

Pollett's Cove

Pollett's Cove is a wilderness estuary on the northwest coast of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. It is accessible only by boat or on foot via an arduous 10 km hike along the coastline from Pleasant Bay, heading north , or an even longer, more difficult trek from Meat Cove, heading south .The...

, for which there is no marked trail for the majority of the journey.

Communications

• The Postal Code
  Postal code
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• The Telephone exchange
  Telephone exchange
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   is 902
  Area code 902
  Area code 902 is the telephone area code in the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, encompassing both provinces. The 902 area code was established in 1947 for all three Maritime provinces, with Newfoundland added shortly after it joined Canada; New Brunswick, along with...
  
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The name Meat Cove probably comes from fishing fleets using the natural protected cove to come ashore and hunt moose to replenish their supplies. MacLellans and Frasers have lived in Meat Cove for generations. During the last forty years a number of US and central Canadian residents have lived in the village for various lengths of time.

The name Meat Cove, came from the smell of cooking meat that sailors could catch down wind as they approached the cove from many miles away. The cove was a place to lay away and hunt and get fresh water before sailing on.

Another story of the name Meat Cove came from the geographic features of the site. It's said that Indians used to drive deer over the cliffs above the cove in a coordinated hunt to build up their supply of meat.

On Saturday August 21, 2010, torrential rains washed away parts of the only access road to Meat Cove leaving several unable to get away from the remote community. According to local sources, the bridge repair was completed as of October 21, 2010.

Trivia

In a 2003 storyline, the main characters in Get Fuzzy

Get Fuzzy

Get Fuzzy is an American daily comic strip written and drawn by Darby Conley. The strip features the adventures of Boston advertising executive Rob Wilco and his two anthropomorphic pets: dog Satchel Pooch and cat Bucky Katt. Get Fuzzy has been published by United Feature Syndicate since September...

went to Meat Cove as part of a vacation to Nova Scotia, the premise being that the character Rob had adopted his dog Satchel from a breeder there as a puppy and Satchel wanted to meet his canine parents. Satchel pronounced it "Good...less meat than I thought there would be though".

External links

• Meat Cove on Destination Nova Scotia