Mader's Cove, Nova Scotia
Mader's Cove is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the Lunenburg Municipal District in Lunenburg County . The current area is mostly along the Mader's Cove Road along the waters of Mahone Bay and includes Westhaver Beach. It is bounded on the west by the old railway, now part of the Bay to Bay Trail, that runs along the old number 3 Highway.
Original founders of the cove were of German/Swiss descent. On A.F. Church's 1883 map of the area surnames in the area included Mader, Strum, Smeltzer, Deal, Westhaver, Eisenhauer, Crooks, Roast, Ernst, Hyson, Loy, Zwicker, Wynook, Slaunwhite, Hebb, Ham, and Pickels. Most of these surnames were still there in the 1931 Canadian Census; Mader, Strum, Knock, Ernst, Westhaver, Hyson, Deal, Smeltzer, Nauss, Hubley, Langille, Knicle, Sawlor, Rost, Eisner, Joudrey, Schwartz, Whynot, Slauenwhite, and Hamm. Most of the families were farmers with a few fishermen. Many were machinists or carpenters who worked at the Strum door and sash manufacturing plant located in the Cove until it burnt down in the 1970s. (Maritime Manufacturing and Construction Company)