Women Driving Downtown
If you had been driving downtown in the 1850’s, you would have traveled the “Great Road” connecting Sackville to Nova Scotia, across the Tantramar River. Your vehicle would have been a coach, or a wagon, and if you were a woman, you likely would have been in the passenger’s seat.
Today, women along the “Great Road”, now known as Bridge Street, are most decidedly in the driver’s seat. On the block between Main and Lorne Streets, 60% of the businesses are owned or managed by women.