1st. Shubenacadie Scouting is fortunate to have two sponsors; St. Bridget's Roman Catholic Church and the Shubenacadie United Church. Both play a vital role in the ongoing success of Scouting in Shubenacadie.

St. Bridget's Roman Catholic Church

The Roman Catholic Community of the Shubenacadie district can be traced back to the French missionaries of the 1620's. They administered to the spiritual needs of the Mik'maage people. Information regarding these early missionaries is scant at best. However, the first mission to be built was constructed by the Abbee Thury in the 1690's.

One of the most famous and controversial missionaries of the Shubenacadie area was the Abbee Jean Louis Le Loutre, who it is alleged created the discord between the French Acadians and the English. This eventually led to the expulsion of the Acadians in 1755. Abbee Le Loutre built the Chapel of Ste. Anne (the patron Saint of the Mik'maage people) on a site adjacent to Snide's Lake. After two fierce battles involving the Acadians, their Mik'maage allies and English troops from Halifax, the chapel (mass house) was destroyed. The record states that up to 30 English soldiers were killed or wounded. The legend of Snide's Lake is that a silver bell, cast in France, was dumped into the lake by fleeing Mik'maage and Acadians. It is said that on certain clear and frosty nights the bell can be heard to toll in mourning.

The second Chapel of Ste. Anne was built in 1770 by Governor Lawrence as an appeasement to the Mik'maage people. Although this chapel was never consecrated, it was used occasionally by the Mik'maage, even after the Protestant settlers were granted the Acadian farms. The remnants of this chapel were eventually destroyed by the floods of the Saxby Gale of 1869.

The third Chapel of Ste. Anne was situated in the Indian Residential School located on the property next to the mass house site. The school was built in 1928 and closed in 1967. Scotia Plastics is now located on the foundations of the former school.

The construction of the railroad in the 1850's brought Irish and French Catholics from Quebec to Shubenacadie. A chapel was built in which the labourers could worship and receive the Sacrament. The chapel was later sold and became a store and hotel (The Sherman House). The purchaser, a Mr. Meek, in turn built a new chapel in the southern part of the village. Many of the parishioners should still remember this chapel which was demolished in the late 1960's or early 1970's to make way for a private home.

St. Bridget's was a mission of St. Bernard's Parish in Enfield until 1967 when the new Parish of St. Bridget's was established under the charge of Father Mike Kearney O.M.I. The Parish of St. Bridget's is located in the heart of rural Nova Scotia. It extends from the Musquodoboit Valley to Kennetcook and from Stewiacke to Lantz covering approximately 800 sq. miles. The first church constructed after the formation of the new Parish was built 1971. It presently houses the Shubenacadie Pre-School Society. The first mission church to be built in St. Bridget's Parish was Holy Cross located in Middle Musquodoboit in the Musquodoboit Valley in 1998.

This brings us to the current chapter of the Roman Catholic Community of the Shubenacadie District with the construction in 1994 of a beautiful and ultra modern church and hall next door to the former St. Bridget's Church.

As our sponsor, St. Bridget's Roman Catholic Church gives us space for meetings and events when required, but also provides support for the well-being of the Scout Group.

Shubenacadie United Church

As our sponsor, Shubenacadie United Church not only gives us space for meetings, but also provides support for the spiritual well-being of the Scout Group.