Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Slocum Boot Shop
Westport, Digby, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- fish shed
- Year built
- c.1825
- Decade built
- 1820-1829
- Notice of registration date
- 11 December 1990
- Civic address
- 118 Water Street
- Community
- Westport
- County
- Digby
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.25819, -66.34753
- File number
- Prov_file_130
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveBarry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
2 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1859 map "Colton's Maine (1859)" (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1859 · Colton's Maine (1859) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Digby, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
the Boot Shop's intimate association with the boyhood years of Joshua Slocum, who became famous for sailing around the world 1895 to 1898.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of Slocum Boot Shop are:
-simple one-and-one-half storey structure;
-gable roof;
-wooden shingling, board/batten, and corner boards;
-six-over-six and multi-pane windows;
-location by the water in Westport.
Nearby in the register
- Westport Baptist Churchchurchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.