![]() So many that schools and some roads have to close for the day due to crowds and motorcycle traffic. It attracts many times the town's population the town of 2,000 residents grows to 50,000 people, including 25,000 motorcycles. Since 2004, Digby has become the destination of the largest motorcycle rally in Atlantic Canada, the annual Wharf Rat Rally. The festival offers a variety of themed activities for all ages, including scallop shucking contests, a parade, and an exhibition of local artists. The annual Scallop Days Festival, held the first week of August, brings the fishing and tourism industries together to showcase the town's history and heritage to the tourists. About 20 additional motels, inns and bed and breakfast operations are based in Digby making tourism an important employer. Expanded several times since, it was bought by the Government of Nova Scotia after the Dominion Atlantic sold its hotels. The Pines attracted notable visitors including early film star Theda Bara who spent her honeymoon there in 1921. Built in 1905 and then purchased in 1917 by the Dominion Atlantic Railway, the resort provided a focal point to the local tourism industry with a large expansion in 1927. A landmark in this industry was the construction of the Digby Pines Resort on the town's outskirts. Tourism has played an important role in Digby during the 20th century beginning with the establishment of railway and steamship links that opened the town and surrounding communities as an-easy-to-reach destination for larger urban centres in eastern North America.
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