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Antigonish Farmer's Market

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Antigonish Farmer's Market
Antigonish Farmer's Market
Antigonish Farmer's Market
Antigonish Farmer's Market
Antigonish Farmer's Market
Antigonish Farmer's Market
Antigonish Farmer's Market
Antigonish Farmer's Market
Antigonish Farmer's Market
Antigonish Farmer's Market
Antigonish Farmer's Market
Antigonish Farmer's Market
Antigonish Farmer's Market
Antigonish Farmer's Market
Antigonish Farmer's Market
Antigonish Farmer's Market
Antigonish Farmer's Market
Antigonish Farmer's Market
Antigonish Farmer's Market
Antigonish Farmer's Market
Antigonish Farmer's Market
Antigonish Farmer's Market
Phone:
+1 902-867-7479

Hours:
SundayClosed
MondayClosed
TuesdayClosed
WednesdayClosed
ThursdayClosed
FridayClosed
Saturday8:30am - 1pm


The Antigonish Movement blended adult education, co-operatives, microfinance and rural community development to help small, resource-based communities around Canada’s Maritimes improve their economic and social circumstances. A group of priests and educators, including Father Jimmy Tompkins, Father Moses Coady, Rev. Hugh MacPherson and A.B. MacDonald led this movement from a base at the Extension Department at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. The credit union systems of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and PEI owe their origins to the Antigonish Movement, which also had an important influence on other provincial systems across Canada. The Coady International Institute at St. F.X. has been instrumental in developing credit unions and in asset-based community development initiatives in developing countries ever since.
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