New Brunswick·Museum Road Trip
St. Martins has always made its money from the ocean.
St. Martins was once the Maritimes’ 3rd-largest shipbuilding community, just behind Halifax and Saint John
Jordan Gill · CBC News
· Posted: Aug 30, 2026 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago
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Quaco Museum shows off the area’s shipbuilding past, beginning in the early 19th century, when a woman’s husband was stranded at sea. (Jordan Gill/CBC)
New Brunswick has more than 100 museums and heritage sites. In our summer series Museum Road Trip, CBC News is highlighting eight small-town historic places.
St. Martins has always made its money from the ocean.
Now it’s known as a Bay of Fundy resort town that people visit to get a little seaside experience.
But 100 years ago, it was shipbuilding that brought cash into community coffers.
“Shipbuilding was everything,” said Carmel Vivier, the director of the museum, adding that 500 ships were built along a four-kilometre stretch of the Bay of Fundy.
Some of the tools of the shipbuilding trade. (Jordan Gill/CBC)
“Halifax built more ships,
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