Smokehouse Museum

Cap-Acadie is North America's largest exporter of smoked herring. Inside the Information Centre, the Smokehouse Museum demonstrates the history and techniques learned from French and Aboriginal knowledge. Interpretive panels, photographs, and old tools illustrate this traditional way to preserve a family's food supply, which later became a major commercial enterprise. Today about 20 smokehouses in Cap-Acadie still smoke herring, exported mainly to Haiti and the Dominican Republic.