Processors & Producers

Louisbourg Seafoods Ltd.

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Louisbourg Seafoods Ltd., home of Mira Bay seafood products, is a family-operated seafood business. James Kennedy and his wife Lori started their company in 1984 in the historic town of Louisbourg. Currently holding the prestigious iTQi Superior Taste Award (International Taste and Quality Institute of Brussels) for their processed crab and shrimp, the Kennedys credit the awards with their level of control and expertise at all stages of production.

Louisbourg Seafoods offers a variety of seafood products that include, but are not limited to, snow crab, North Atlantic shrimp, lobster, sea urchin, ocean perch, cod, haddock, halibut, scallops, skate, eel and whelk.



Dominion Produce Ltd.

Dominion-Produce

Dominion Produce, located in the Annapolis Valley, produces fresh market carrots and onions. We grow an heirloom variety of carrots called “Rainbow Carrots.” When planted, they grow naturally in a rainbow of colours from white and yellow to a deep orange. Each colour has its own unique nutritional qualities. These carrots are sweet and crunchy and can be used to add colours to soups and stir-fries or as a colourful addition to a vegetable plate.

rainbow carrotsWe use no artificial preservatives in packaging our rainbow carrots. Please contact us for more information and product availability.


Gidney Fisheries Ltd.

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Gidney Fisheries is a privately held, family-owned lobster company spanning four generations of the Gidney family, located in Southwestern Nova Scotia. In 1892, Samuel Gidney began buying lobsters from local fisherman and exported them on a weekly basis via steamship to Boston, Massachusetts, and this tradition continues today. We purchase our lobster products directly from local fisherman in the Bay of Fundy and St. Mary’s Bay, Nova Scotia. We have fresh-caught lobster for 9.5 months of the year and supply our clients in the off season from our temperature-controlled lobster holding facility with 100,000+ lbs of holding.


Cornect Family Farm

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Hidden amongst the woodlands and blueberry fields of Denver, Guysborough County, Cornect Family Farm proudly produces the finest artisan honey from wildflowers and blueberry blossoms of the surrounding areas. We initially began beekeeping 16 years ago in order to pollinate our own blueberry fields and we now have over 100 beehives. The first 30 pounds of honey we harvested set a pattern that continues to this day, as we continue to harvest our honey for use in the many value-added products we produce on the farm.

Our creamed honey is actually “raw” hand-selected honey allowed to crystallize as Mother Nature intended, pure and untouched. The same is true for our mild non-pasteurized liquid honey.


Blueberry Thrills

Reprinted from Passable with permission.

While perusing my twitter feed last week, I noticed a link to this New York Times article, which extolled the virtues of Nova Scotia’s own Van Dyk Wild Blueberry Juice.

This eleven –year-old company was founded by Case and Riek Van Dyk who moved to Nova Scotia from Holland during the 1950’s. The couple launched their product in the fall of 2000, selling it at a few stories around the city. Soon you could buy it across Atlantic Canada as well as in Quebec and Ontario and as far away as Taiwan. The juice eventually made its way to New York, via Fairway stores, and it’s there that the NYT’s Florence Fabricant – as in Flo Fab – discovered the stuff. more…


Acadian Maple Quality Assurance

Here at Acadian Maple Products we take food safety and quality assurance very seriously.

To prove this we have invested a large amount of time and resources into an ongoing quality management program and have achieved SQF 2000 Level 2 certification-  Level 2 Accredited HACCP food safety plans.

We are not interested in purchasing just any maple syrup, we pride ourselves on sourcing and producing the best maple syrup.  Our trained and certified quality assurance manager, William Allaway tastes every sample of maple syrup that enters our facility.  more…