Slacks Cove 'hidden gem' of New Brunswick history
CBC
The Rockport-Slacks Cove area, about 23 kilometres southwest of Sackville, is now known mostly for its picturesque beauty and UNESCO recognized biosphere reserves.
But centuries ago, the area thrived in other ways.
It was a major industrial outpost, the birthplace of Canada's Baptist movement and the home of one of Nova Scotia's more difficult to reach post offices.
James Upham, a Moncton historian and educator, calls the Slacks Cove area "one of those hidden gems of the province."
"This is one of those points where it's just everywhere you look there was something here."
One question that may come to mind is, why Slacks Cove?
The simple answer is location.
Upham says the cove would have been one of the first obvious places of refuge for people sailing in the Bay of Fundy.
"The Bay of Fundy is rocky, scary, windy … It's a very dangerous spot to be in a boat," said Upham.
"If you're coming up the bay and the weather's bad, this is going to be one of the first safe harbours that you hit."
In 1763, Nathan Mason, the pastor of a baptist congregation in Swansea, Mass., along with 13 church members boarded a ship, sailing for a new home.
The place they landed was Slacks Cove.
They would go on to become "the seed bed in Canada of the Baptist denomination," according to Sackville historian W.C. Milner's 1934 book History of Sackville.
The church grew to 60 members, but a separation was in the cards.
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