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| Town of Yarmouth | |
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| Nickname: "The Gateway to Nova Scotia" | |
| Mottoes: "Progress" "On the Edge of Everywhere" | |
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| Coordinates:43°50′19″N66°06′55″W / 43.83861°N 66.11528°W /43.83861; -66.11528[1] | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Nova Scotia |
| County | Yarmouth |
| Founded | June 9, 1761 |
| Incorporated | August 6, 1890 |
| Electoral Districts Federal | Acadie—Annapolis |
| Provincial | Yarmouth |
| Government | |
| • Type | Town Council |
| • Mayor | Pam Mood |
| • Deputy Mayor | Steve Berry |
| • Councillors | List of Members
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| • MLA | Nick HiltonPC |
| • MP | Chris d'Entremont(L) |
| Area (2021)[2] | |
| • Land | 10.57 km2 (4.08 sq mi) |
| • Population Centre | 16.81 km2 (6.49 sq mi) |
| Highest elevation | 43 m (141 ft) |
| Lowest elevation | 0 m (0 ft) |
| Population (2021)[2] | |
• Total | 6,829 |
| • Density | 646.3/km2 (1,674/sq mi) |
| • Population Centre | 7,848 |
| • Population Centre density | 466.8/km2 (1,209/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC−04:00 (AST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−03:00 (ADT) |
| Postal code(s) | B5A |
| Area code | 902 & 782 |
| Highways |  Hwy 101 Hwy 103 Trunk 1 Trunk 3 |
| Dwellings | 3569 |
| Median Income* | $48,000CDN |
| NTS Map | 20O16 Yarmouth |
| GNBC Code | CBPIB[1] |
| Website | www |
Yarmouth is a porttown in southwesternNova Scotia, Canada at the entrance to theGulf of Maine—making it a significant coastal town for maritime activity. Yarmouth is theshire town ofYarmouth County and is the largest population centre in the region.
Originally inhabited by theMi'kmaq, the region was known as "Keespongwitk" meaning "Lands End" due to its position at the tip of theNova Scotia peninsula.[3]
The region was visited in 1604 bySamuel de Champlain, who named it "Cap-Fourchu", meaning "forked or cloven cape."[4] The first Europeans to make a settlement on these shores were theFrench Acadians. They set up a small fishing settlement known as "Tebouque" in the mid-1600s and by 1750 the population was 50 people.[5] During theSeven Years' War theNew England Planters settled at what is now the town of Yarmouth in 1759; the grantees were fromYarmouth, Massachusetts and they requested that Yarmouth be named after their former home.[6] Yarmouth was founded on June 9, 1761, when a ship carrying three families arrived fromSandwich, Massachusetts. The ship carried the families of Sealed Landers, Ebenezer Ellis, and Moses Perry.[7] During theAmerican Revolution, some in Yarmouth were sympathetic to the rebellion.[8] Following the war,Acadians originally from theGrand-Pré district whoreturned from exile in 1767 settled in the Yarmouth area.
There were a number of inhabitants of Yarmouth who supported the American rebels. Despite the Americanprivateer raids in theRaid on Yarmouth, Nova Scotia (1775), the inhabitants still sheltered American prisoners after theBattle off Yarmouth (1777).
After the American Revolution, substantial numbers ofUnited Empire Loyalists arrived in 1785.
Through the 19th century, the town was a majorshipbuilding centre, at one point boasting more registered tonnageper capita than any other port in the world.[9] From 1874 to 1885, Yarmouth was the second largest port of registry in Canada followingSaint John, New Brunswick. In 1878, Yarmouth's tonnage peaked at 453 vessels aggregating 166,623 tons, and in 1879, the town had the second largest registered tonnage in Canada.[10][11]
Yarmouth ships were found in most major ports throughout the world at this time, including ships noted for courageous crews such as the shipResearch in 1861 and ships noted for great size such as the shipCounty of Yarmouth in 1884, one of the largest wooden hull ships ever built in Canada.John Patch, the son of a Yarmouth sea captain, developed and built one of the first modernscrew propeller driven ships in 1832 (4 years beforeJohn Ericsson's patent). First demonstrated in Yarmouth Harbour during the summer of 1833, Patch was unsuccessful in apatent application in that year, but he continued to improve his propeller and received an American patent in 1849[12] which drew praise in American scientific circles.[13] However, by 1849 there were multiple competing versions of the screw propeller. Patch never received money or recognition and died a poor man at Yarmouth in 1861.[14]
The town of Yarmouth was incorporated on August 6, 1890.[4]
As wooden shipbuilding declined in the late 19th century, Yarmouth's shipowners re-invested their capital into factories, iron-hulledsteamships, and railways. The town's first railway was the locally ownedWestern Counties Railway which was built from Yarmouth toDigby in the 1870s. It eventually was merged into theDominion Atlantic Railway (DAR), with a network extending into theAnnapolis Valley,Halifax andTruro; the DAR later became a subsidiary ofCanadian Pacific Railway (CPR). TheHalifax and South Western Railway was built along the south shore linking Yarmouth withShelburne,Liverpool,Bridgewater and Halifax in the early 20th century; the H&SW was eventually merged into theCanadian National Railway (CNR). While iron-hulled steamships had led to the decline of Yarmouth's once-thriving wooden shipbuilding industry, they also made the port a vital connection between Nova Scotia's rail lines and steamships destined forBoston andNew York. Rail services were abandoned to Yarmouth in stages, beginning in 1982 (CNR) and ending in 1990 (CPR).
Tourism has been a major industry in Yarmouth since the 1880s whenLoran Ellis Baker founded the Yarmouth Steamship Company. Steamship and railway promotion based in Yarmouth created the first tourism marketing in Nova Scotia.[15] Baker's steamships operated between Yarmouth and Boston until 1900, when the company was purchased by theDominion Atlantic Railway. The DAR andHalifax and South Western Railway offered connections for passengers arriving in Yarmouth with steamship services operating to New York City and Boston.
In 1939, examiners at Yarmouth's Merchant Marine Institution made seafaring history by issuing master's papers toMolly Kool, the first female ship captain in the Western World.
Steamship connections between Yarmouth and Boston / New York were maintained byEastern Steamship Lines but were suspended with the start ofWorld War II; theSSYarmouth Castle was one of many vessels which served this route. The service resumed a few years after the war with the S.S. Yarmouth, under the same company. This service continued into the mid 1950s and was then replaced with the M.V. Bluenose.
Following the war, as the economy of western Nova Scotia improved, the need for a year-round daily service was made evident. The service was needed as a more timely route for transport of goods between markets in Nova Scotia and the United States. Demand increased for passenger traffic as well. This led citizens of southwestern Nova Scotia to undertake an extensive lobbying effort with the federal government to establish a ferry service in theGulf of Maine connecting Yarmouth with a port inNew England. In 1949 theCanadian Maritime Commission began to study the possibility of a ferry service connecting with a port in the US. After some controversy as to whether to return to the traditional Boston or New York service, a decision was made to focus the effort on a service from Yarmouth toBar Harbor, Maine. In 1954, the federal government contractedDavie Shipbuilding to constructMVBluenose which was launched in 1955 and began service in 1956 under the management ofCanadian National Railway (CNR) and later (1977-1982) under the management of a federalCrown corporation namedCN Marine.
In 1978 CN Marine started operating MV Marine Evangeline on a service from Yarmouth toPortland, Maine. In 1982 the oldBluenose was retired from the Bar Harbor service and sold. CN Marine replaced her with a newer vessel MV Stena Jutlandica which was renamed MVBluenose to prevent confusion in tourism marketing literature.
In 1986, CN Marine was reorganized into the Crown corporationMarine Atlantic and in 1997, the federal government decided to end its financial support for the Gulf of Maine ferry service, soliciting proposals from private sector ferry companies to operate the route.
The growth of post-war automobile-based tourism saw the provincial government encourage additional ferry service with New England, a region with many family connections tothe Maritimes dating to the 18th century and which accelerated during the first half of the 20th century. In 1970 the MVBluenose service operated by CNR was joined by theMSPrince of Fundy on a route connecting Yarmouth withPortland, Maine operated byLion Ferry. The service was supplemented between 1973 and 1976 byMSBolero, however by 1976 both vessels were replaced by theMSCaribe. Lion Ferry sold Yarmouth's second ferry service toPrince of Fundy Cruises who purchasedMSStena Olympica and renamed it MSScotia Prince. The service underwent another ownership change in 2000 and was renamedScotia Prince Cruises. In 2004 the company discovered toxic mould in its Portland terminal, owned by the City of Portland, cancelling its 2005 season. The City of Portland subsequently cancelled the company's lease and evicted Scotia Prince Cruises, thus ending this ferry service.
In 1997Bay Ferries, a subsidiary ofNorthumberland Ferries Limited, was the successful bidder for the federal government's Gulf of Maine ferry service. Only the operating licence was transferred as well as the right to be the primary user of the federal government-owned ferry terminals in Yarmouth and Bar Harbor; the service would receive no subsidy from the federal government. Bay Ferries purchased MVBluenose from Marine Atlantic and used that vessel for the remainder of the 1997 season before selling it.
In 1998, Bay Ferries introduced the firsthigh speed catamaran passenger-vehicle ferry service in North America when it purchasedHSCIncat 046 fromIncat in an aggressive bid to expand the Yarmouth - Bar Harbor ferry service. Throughout the 1990s the market for ferry services in southwestern Nova Scotia was threatened by significant expansions of 4-lane expressways in northern Nova Scotia and across southernNew Brunswick so it was theorized that the Yarmouth - Bar Harbor ferry service could maintain market share if the ferry voyage time was shortened. Marketed as "The Cat", the use of the ferry service grew largely due to Bay Ferries' investment and the novelty of riding the ultra-modern high speed catamaran. In 2002 Bay Ferries traded in HSCIncat 046 for a larger vesselHSCThe Cat which was also marketed as "The Cat". Beginning in 2003, Bay Ferries began operating HSCThe Cat during the winter months on services in theCaribbean.
Following the end of the service offered byScotia Prince Cruises in 2004, Bay Ferries began operating HSCThe Cat in 2006 between Yarmouth to Portland, in addition to Bar Harbor; the old Portland ferry terminal being replaced by the newly builtOcean Gateway International Marine Passenger Terminal. Following a decline in American tourism to Nova Scotia, as well as record-high fuel prices, Bay Ferries sought subsidies from the federal and provincial governments for its Gulf of Maine ferry service. The federal government refused to provide a subsidy, having removed itself from operating such a service in 1997. However, the provincial government offered a subsidy to cover the operating loss and this was subsequently provided in 2007, 2008 and 2009. In 2009 the provincial government cancelled the subsidy and Bay Ferries announced in December 2009 that it was ending its ferry service and sold the vessel.[16]
In 2013 the provincial government posted a request for proposals for re-establishing a Yarmouth - Maine ferry service, stating that a successful proponent would receive a $21 million subsidy over a 7-year period. In September 2013 it was announced thatNova Star Cruises was the successful proponent and in November 2013 it was confirmed that the service would start May 1, 2014, with theMVNova Star offering daily round trips between Yarmouth and Portland. Nova Star Cruises also announced it was examining the possibility of using the vessel during the winter months on a service betweenColombia andPanama, bypassing theDarién Gap. Nova Star's contract to provide ferry services between Yarmouth and Portland was not renewed for 2016.[17]
On March 24, 2016,Bay Ferries Limited announced that it had reached an agreement with theU.S. Maritime Administration and theU.S. Navy for a multi-yearcharter ofHST-2. The vessel will be operated for a passenger/vehicle ferry service in theGulf of Maine between Portland, Maine and Yarmouth. The service and vessel will be branded asThe CAT to align with the previous branding used by Bay Ferries. The vessel underwent a refit at a shipyard inSouth Carolina and the service began on June 15, 2016.[18][19][20]
During the first year of theSecond World War, Yarmouth was selected as the location for aBritish Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) facility.RCAF Station Yarmouth was originally opened in 1940 as three separate training sites (the East Camp, the West Camp and the Air Base).
The East Camp was home to a detachment of theRoyal Air Force's No. 34Operational Training Unit (fromRCAF Station Pennfield Ridge), who trained bomber crews, as well as theRoyal Navy's No. 1 Naval Air Gunners School who were located at Yarmouth from January 1, 1943, to March 30, 1945.
The West Camp was home to anRoyal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) Anti-Submarine Bomber Reconnaissance Squadron and several Eastern Air Command Bomber Reconnaissance Squadrons, such as162 Squadron.
The Air Base was home to the 9th Light Anti-Aircraft Artillery, various RCAF and RAF Bomber Squadrons and an Army Co-operation Reconnaissance Flight. Its primary function was as an administrative and logistical support base to the RAF and RCAF squadrons in the area, in addition to providing a Weather Information Section, an Armament Section and afiring range.
ALockheed Hudson, alight bomber, fromBomber Reconnaissance Squadron 113 in Yarmouth became the first aircraft of theRCAF Eastern Air Command to destroy a submarine, sinkingU-754 about 160 km (100 mi) south of Yarmouth on July 31, 1942. The sinking resulted in 43 casualties and no survivors.[21]
Several smaller installations associated with RCAF Station Yarmouth were located in southwestern Nova Scotia, including abombing range atPort Maitland, a fuel depot atDigby, and radar detachments atPlymouth,Tusket,Bear Point,Port Mouton and Rockville. In 1944, a detachment of theUS Navy briefly came to Yarmouth to test the effectiveness of ablimp service. After a crash, the RCAF decided against this venture.
RCAF Station Yarmouth closed in 1945. The airfield was sold to theDepartment of Transport in 1946 and became theYarmouth Airport. ACanadian Army training camp (known as Camp 60) on Parade Street also provided basic and artillery training for 20,000 soldiers during the war.[22]
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The town is home to theYarmouth County Museum & Archives, which preserves the history of the town and surrounding county and operates the Killam Brothers building on the waterfront. TheFirefighters' Museum of Nova Scotia, part of theNova Scotia Museum system is located on Main Street. The privately run Sweeney Fisheries Museum is also located in Yarmouth.
TheIzaak Walton Killam Memorial house, founded in 1963, serves as the town's public library. It is the largest branch ofWestern Counties Regional Library and houses the regional library's headquarters.
The Yarmouth Arts Regional Council was established in 1974, under the leadership of Lydia Davison, a local music teacher. Over the next five years, with the assistance of theCanada Council and many volunteers, the Yarmouth Arts Regional Centre (Th'YARC) was constructed on the site of a former garage on Parade Street. Th'YARC continues to operate to this day, with the 350-seat Lydia Davison Theatre, an art gallery and a print-making shop.
A popular but unsupported cultural belief in Yarmouth holds that the American composerMeredith Willson wrote his well-known song "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" while staying in Yarmouth's Grand Hotel.[23]
In August 2004, a recordmako shark was caught off the coast of Yarmouth during the Yarmouth Shark Scramble. It weighed 491 kg (1,082 lb) and set a new Canadian record. It is considered one of the largest mako sharks ever caught.[24]
Seafest is an annual 7 day festival organized since 1979.
Yarmouth is known for some of the most exuberant examples ofVictorian houses in theMaritimes, a legacy of the wealthy captains and shipowners of the town's seafaring Golden Age.[25] A heritage district preserves several blocks of these residences, including the Lovitt House and Eakin/Hatfield House. On the waterfront, two historic warehouses survive from the sailing era, the Killam Brothers and Parker-Eakin's buildings, each with an associated wharf, which are the focal points of summer waterfront events.
Yarmouth's Main Street is marked by several distinctiveVictorian commercial buildings such as the turreted Yarmouth Block Building.[26] The largest building in the town is a 1970s hotel, the Rodd Grand Hotel. It is built on the site of the original Grand Hotel, aSecond Empire hotel which was the town's landmark for many years.
A landmark for Yarmouth Harbour is the largeCape Forchu Lighthouse which is located a few kilometres away at theheadland ofCape Forchu, the peninsula that guards Yarmouth Harbour. The tall "apple core" style is a notable example ofmodernist style light tower.[27]
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Yarmouth has ahumid continental climate (Köppen:Dfb), closely bordering on anoceanic climate (Köppen:Cfb), typical of climates surrounded by the sea but close to large continents such assouthern Norway andcoastal Hokkaido but with latitude variations. Being near the -3 °C isotherm in the average of the coldest month (east of the city), causing that in peninsular areas likeYarmouth Bar andCape Forchu are between a transition band for theoceanic climates (Cfb).[29][30] Winters are cool and rainy with a January average of −2.6 °C (27.3 °F) though owing to strong maritime influences, temperatures below −20 °C (−4 °F) are very rare, and the average high never drops to below freezing at any point in the year.[28][31] During this period of time, the weather can be unsettled and cloudy due to theNor'easters coming up the coast from the southwest.[31] As a result, Yarmouth averages only 68–100 hours of sunshine from December to February or 25%–34% of possible sunshine.[28] The average annual snowfall is 204.7 cm (80.6 in), which can come from Nor'easters from the southwest with a maximum snow depth of 9 cm (3.5 in) in January, owing to its mild winters, among the mildest in Canada east of the Rockies.[31][28]
Yarmouth's summers are cool due to the strong coastal influence from the sea, meaning temperatures above 30 °C (86 °F) are very rare.[31] The average temperature in the warmest month, August, is 17.5 °C (63.5 °F). Spring and fall are transitional seasons in which falls are warmer than springs since the waters are at the warmest temperatures in fall and the coldest during early spring.[31] Precipitation is significant, averaging 1,290.1 mm (50.79 in) a year, with July and August being the driest months on average and November being the wettest month on average. An outstanding feature is Yarmouth's late-fall to early-winter precipitation maximum, owing to the combination of intense storm activity from November to January and relatively more-stable summers, with thunderstorm activity here much less frequent than in the U.S. Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and points southward. Yarmouth averages 1,898.3 hours of sunshine, or 41.2% of possible sunshine, with summer being the sunniest and winter being the cloudiest.[32] Yarmouth averages 191 days offog each year.[33]
The highest temperature ever recorded in Yarmouth was 32.5 °C (90.5 °F) on July 16, 2013.[28] The coldest temperature ever recorded was −24.4 °C (−11.9 °F) on February 14, 1894.[34]
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record highhumidex | 15.8 | 16.9 | 17.4 | 24.8 | 27.9 | 38.0 | 37.7 | 37.3 | 36.4 | 30.2 | 26.1 | 19.5 | 38.0 |
| Record high °C (°F) | 14.0 (57.2) | 15.3 (59.5) | 18.3 (64.9) | 21.2 (70.2) | 24.8 (76.6) | 30.4 (86.7) | 32.5 (90.5) | 30.3 (86.5) | 27.7 (81.9) | 22.8 (73.0) | 19.3 (66.7) | 16.5 (61.7) | 32.5 (90.5) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 1.3 (34.3) | 1.3 (34.3) | 4.0 (39.2) | 8.8 (47.8) | 13.9 (57.0) | 18.1 (64.6) | 21.4 (70.5) | 21.6 (70.9) | 18.8 (65.8) | 13.6 (56.5) | 9.0 (48.2) | 4.4 (39.9) | 11.4 (52.5) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −2.6 (27.3) | −2.5 (27.5) | 0.4 (32.7) | 5.0 (41.0) | 9.8 (49.6) | 14.0 (57.2) | 17.3 (63.1) | 17.5 (63.5) | 14.7 (58.5) | 9.8 (49.6) | 5.5 (41.9) | 0.8 (33.4) | 7.5 (45.5) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −6.4 (20.5) | −6.2 (20.8) | −3.3 (26.1) | 1.2 (34.2) | 5.7 (42.3) | 9.8 (49.6) | 13.2 (55.8) | 13.4 (56.1) | 10.5 (50.9) | 6.1 (43.0) | 1.9 (35.4) | −2.9 (26.8) | 3.6 (38.5) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −21.3 (−6.3) | −24.4 (−11.9) | −15.7 (3.7) | −10.8 (12.6) | −1.8 (28.8) | 2.1 (35.8) | 6.4 (43.5) | 5.8 (42.4) | 1.3 (34.3) | −3.2 (26.2) | −9.8 (14.4) | −16.6 (2.1) | −24.4 (−11.9) |
| Record lowwind chill | −32.6 | −32.0 | −28.5 | −22.5 | −4.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | −6.9 | −19.5 | −28.2 | −32.6 |
| Averageprecipitation mm (inches) | 123.6 (4.87) | 102.8 (4.05) | 110.7 (4.36) | 101.4 (3.99) | 99.1 (3.90) | 88.7 (3.49) | 78.0 (3.07) | 88.1 (3.47) | 95.9 (3.78) | 119.3 (4.70) | 143.4 (5.65) | 139.1 (5.48) | 1,290.1 (50.79) |
| Average rainfall mm (inches) | 69.1 (2.72) | 60.0 (2.36) | 82.5 (3.25) | 92.7 (3.65) | 98.5 (3.88) | 88.9 (3.50) | 81.8 (3.22) | 89.8 (3.54) | 97.5 (3.84) | 124.1 (4.89) | 133.8 (5.27) | 97.8 (3.85) | 1,116.5 (43.96) |
| Average snowfall cm (inches) | 63.6 (25.0) | 46.5 (18.3) | 30.8 (12.1) | 9.5 (3.7) | 0.2 (0.1) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.4 (0.2) | 10.0 (3.9) | 43.7 (17.2) | 204.7 (80.6) |
| Average precipitation days(≥ 0.2 mm) | 20.5 | 16.4 | 14.9 | 13.9 | 13.4 | 11.6 | 9.9 | 9.8 | 10.1 | 12.1 | 15.1 | 19.7 | 167.2 |
| Average rainy days(≥ 0.2 mm) | 8.5 | 7.0 | 8.8 | 12.3 | 13.3 | 11.5 | 10.2 | 9.7 | 10.4 | 11.8 | 13.4 | 12.2 | 128.9 |
| Average snowy days(≥ 0.2 cm) | 15.5 | 12.0 | 9.0 | 3.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 3.1 | 10.2 | 53.2 |
| Averagerelative humidity (%)(at 1500LST) | 77.8 | 74.1 | 70.3 | 70.3 | 73.4 | 76.7 | 78.7 | 77.1 | 75.4 | 73.0 | 74.5 | 77.3 | 74.9 |
| Mean monthlysunshine hours | 76.0 | 103.5 | 141.6 | 178.8 | 213.0 | 217.6 | 227.6 | 220.0 | 186.8 | 165.6 | 97.6 | 70.3 | 1,898.3 |
| Percentagepossible sunshine | 26.3 | 35.0 | 38.4 | 44.4 | 46.7 | 47.1 | 48.6 | 50.8 | 49.6 | 48.4 | 33.5 | 25.3 | 41.2 |
| Source:Environment and Climate Change Canada[28][35][36] (extreme minimum February 1894)[34] (sun from 1981-2010)[32] | |||||||||||||
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
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| 1762 | 100 | — |
| 1871 | 4,696 | +4596.0% |
| 1881 | 5,324 | +13.4% |
| 1889 | 5,818 | +9.3% |
| 1891 | 6,089 | +4.7% |
| 1901 | 6,430 | +5.6% |
| 1911 | 6,600 | +2.6% |
| 1921 | 7,073 | +7.2% |
| 1931 | 7,055 | −0.3% |
| 1941 | 7,790 | +10.4% |
| 1951 | 8,106 | +4.1% |
| 1956 | 8,095 | −0.1% |
| 1961 | 8,636 | +6.7% |
| 1966 | 8,319 | −3.7% |
| 1971 | 8,519 | +2.4% |
| 1976 | 7,801 | −8.4% |
| 1981 | 7,475 | −4.2% |
| 1986 | 7,617 | +1.9% |
| 1991 | 7,781 | +2.2% |
| 1996 | 7,568 | −2.7% |
| 2001 | 7,561 | −0.1% |
| 2006 | 7,162 | −5.3% |
| 2011 | 6,761 | −5.6% |
| 2016 | 6,518 | −3.6% |
| 2021 | 6,829 | +4.8% |
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In the2021 Canadian census conducted byStatistics Canada, Yarmouth had a population of 6,829 living in 3,259 of its 3,569 total private dwellings, a change of4.8% from its 2016 population of 6,518. With a land area of 10.57 km2 (4.08 sq mi), it had a population density of646.1/km2 (1,673.3/sq mi) in 2021.[2]
The town has long held the highestteenage pregnancy rate in the province.[48][49] Many studies have been done using teenagers in the town to examine the phenomenon.[48][50]
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Yarmouth has been featured as a playable location in the 2014 video gameAssassin's Creed Rogue, which takes place during theFrench and Indian War, and theSeven Years' War.
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