Seal Cove

New Brunswick


For a century, smoked herring was king on Grand Manan. A thousand men and women worked splitting, stringing and drying fish in 300 smokehouses up and down the island. The last smokehouse shut down in 1996 but you can still see many clustered around the tidal creek mouth at tiny Seal Cove village.


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1. Grand Manan Historical Museum

4.42 MILES

This museum makes a good destination on a foggy day. Its diverse collection of local artifacts provides a quick primer on island history. You can see a…

2. Grand Manan Art Gallery

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Housed in what looks like a 1970s church, this lovely, nonprofit local gallery showcases local and regional artists, as well as well-known historic and…

3. Whale & Seabird Research Station

9.01 MILES

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4. Fishing Weirs

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5. Swallowtail Lighthouse

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6. Quoddy Head State Park

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7. West Quoddy Head Lighthouse

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