Canard, Nova Scotia

Where Canard Street and Highway 358 intersect is known as jawbone corner, often called this by the local residents of the area.

[3] It got its names because back before the Wellington Dyke was completed in 1885, a large whale swam up the Canard river, and became stranded on the beach as the tide went out.

[4] Canard was an important Acadian village known as Rivière-aux-Canards whose population settled on both sides of the river beginning in the late 1600s and totaled 750 people by 1750.

The Acadian settlement included extensive dyked farm lands along the river, several mills, its own parish.

Today Canard consists mostly of large farms and several agricultural processing plants located between the village of Canning to the north and Starr's Point, Nova Scotia to the south.