Portapique (/ˈpɔːrtəpɪk/) is a rural community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Colchester County.
Situated near the mouth of the Portapique River, which flows into the Minas Basin, its economy is based mainly on farming and some forestry.
It was the site of an Acadian settlement called Porcepic or Vil Port-au-pique named after porcupines in the area.
[1] After the Expulsion of the Acadians in 1755, the community was resettled in the late 1760s and early 1770s by Ulster Scots families from the Londonderry Township settlement in nearby Great Village, joined by a later wave of Northern Irish settlers in the 1820s.
[3] In April 2020, Portapique was one of the locations of the 2020 Nova Scotia attacks, the deadliest spree killing in Canadian history.