Aspotogan Peninsula
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The Aspotogan Peninsula, also known as the Blandford Peninsula, is a peninsula in the eastern part of Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia which juts from the South Shore into the Atlantic Ocean. To the east of the peninsula is St. Margarets Bay while to the west is Mahone Bay, with the peninsula connected to mainland Nova Scotia to the north.
The coast of the peninsula is dotted with a number of small fishing and tourist-related communities; Hubbards in the northeast being the largest. Other communities on the peninsula are Fox Point, Mill Cove, Northeast Cove, Aspotogan, Bayswater, New Harbour, Blandford, Upper Blandford, Deep Cove, and East River. Highway 329 circles the peninsula along the coast while Highway 3 and Highway 103 pass to the north.
As with most of the region, the peninsula was for centuries home to small fishing communities. This changed dramatically in recent decades as industrial fishing took over. In 1967 4000 acres (16 km²) of the peninsula became CFS Mill Cove, a naval communications centre operated initially by the Royal Canadian Navy and later the Canadian Forces. This facility was automated in 1995 with the majority of the base housing and buildings closed by 2001. The facility has become a television studio, it was the primary filming site for the CBC series Black Harbour; other Nova Scotian productions such as Made in Canada have been filmed there. The main industry of the region in recent years has been tourism and much of the peninsula's coast has been developed with cottages.
