Mushaboom, Nova Scotia

This article is about the Canadian community. For the Feist single, see Mushaboom (song).
Mushaboom in Nova Scotia

Mushaboom is a Canadian rural community located on the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia, Canada, in the Halifax Regional Municipality.

Located along the Marine Drive.

The community is named after Mushaboom Harbour, which is immediately east of Taylor Head Provincial Park, and southwest of Sheet Harbour. The song "Mushaboom" by Nova Scotia-born Canadian musician Feist is named after this community.

The name Mushaboom is likely a shortened form of the Mi'kmaq word Moosaboon-elagwaak which means "a pile of hair". Mi'kmaq legend says that fairies would play ball and run, pulling at one another's hair as they did so. They would pull so hard that locks of hair would come away and then the fairies would scatter the locks on the ground.

Navigator

 Sheet Harbour, Nova Scotia
Via Trunk 7
To Route 224 / Route 374
  Mushaboom, Nova Scotia  
Spry Bay, Nova Scotia
Taylor Head Provincial Park
Via Trunk 7

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Coordinates: 44°51′4.9″N 62°32′6.3″W / 44.851361°N 62.535083°W / 44.851361; -62.535083


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