Sugar Babies From Judique, Nova Scotia

Sugar babies are women who provide intimate relationships or simple companionships to men in exchange for monetary favors or gifts. It is a mutually beneficial arrangement that can work for both those who need companionship and those who desire nice things or money. It is a type of relationship, not a business transaction, unlike other methods of garnering companionship in exchange for money. Sugar babies are not stereotypical "gold diggers." They come in all shapes and sizes and can be any type of woman in Judique, Nova Scotia.

A sugar baby may be a college student who is paying her way through college, has some spare time to commit to a sugar baby/sugar daddy relationship and enjoys nice things. She may be intelligent, self-sufficient and classy. She may also be the opposite. The thing to remember is that sugar daddies are looking for different things. Therefore, sugar babies can be any combination of those things.

Sugar babies can also be independently successful women. They may have money of their own, spend time traveling as an executive for a big company, be a business owner or be perpetrator of any number of successful business endeavors. This type of sugar baby may find excitement in this sort of relationship. She may not need anything monetary or nice gifts from her partner. She may just enjoy having a man spend money on her, despite having plenty of money of her own. Many men find success attractive in a woman. Therefore, certain sugar daddies may have exactly this type of woman in mind when they seek to initiate a relationship with a sugar baby.

Monetary success and intelligence or lack thereof are not the only things in which sugar babies differ. A sugar baby's appearance is another area that may differ in Judique, Nova Scotia due to cultural expectations or simply differ by personal preference. One sugar daddy may like a classic trophy girlfriend. He may want her to be young and very attentive to her looks on a superficial level. Another sugar daddy may not care how his sugar baby dresses but wants her to be athletic. Yet another sugar daddy may not care about looks at all and simply wants a woman who is entertaining.

When one envisions a sugar baby, the image of a young woman typically comes to mind. This is not always the case. Sugar babies may be older women because older and younger sugar daddies alike may prefer older women. Older women may also seek a life of relative luxury in their later years. It is a good way to have fun, receive gifts and take a break from the hustle of life.

The diversity in sugar babies also applies to ethnicity and weight. There is no set standard for any of these things when it comes to sugar babies. Any woman can strive to be a sugar baby and find the right sugar daddy for her. She can be tattooed and pierced or girl next door sweet. She can be funny or serious. She can be a lover of the arts or a computer geek. In short, sugar baby is as diverse a word as the word woman.

Description

Coordinates: 45°52′34″N 61°29′25″W / 45.87611°N 61.49028°W / 45.87611; -61.49028 Judique is a small community located in Inverness County on the Ceilidh Trail (Trunk 19) on the western side of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Early Settlement

The first permanent European pioneers of Judique were mainly of Scots Highland descent and they moved to the west coast of Cape Breton Island from Prince Edward Island, Pictou, Guysborough, and some walked the distance from Parsborough. The ‘Judique Shores’ stretched from Long Point in the south to the Little Judique River just on the boundary of Port Hood, in the north. The name is considered to be either French or Mikmaq. Tradition has it that in 1775, poet and sea captain Michael mor MacDonald of South Uist/PEI, who attended the Glenaladale emigration to PEI, spent the winter near the Grand Judique River. He encountered Mi’kmaq during his stay. The ice came in before he had a chance to leave and he spent the winter there. His Gaelic song about the event, "O, Is Àlainn an t-Àite (pronounced: oh, iss ah-lin un t-ah-chuh) "O, Fair is the Place", is thought by many to be the first Scots Gaelic song composed in North America. Among the early Scottish settlers were Michael MacDonald of South Uist, Robert Innes, Hugh MacEachern, wife and family of Moidart, and Allan Ban MacDonnell of Glengarry. Michael, Robert, and Allan Ban married, about the same time, daughters of Hugh MacEachern, and became the very first settlers of Judique. This settlement took place in 1787. Prior, however, to this date, Michael MacDonald had frequently landed on the coast, partially explored it, and finally mason, of Blair-Athole, Indian Point, in the north end of Judique, is now a protected archeological site.

Judique Today

Population: ca. 700 Households: ca. 340 Coverage Area: Graham's on the Shore Road in the north, Beaton's on Hwy 19, and the boundary between Long Point and Craigmore to the South. St. George's Bay on the east and General Line Road to the west. Once a fully active farming-fishing community, Judique still has vestiges of those times but people now also work in forestry, lumbering, and cultural industries or provide personal business services in the village or are employed in the near-by service town of Port Hawkesbury. Wharves: Baxter's Cove,Pig Cove, Little Judique Harbour St. Andrew's Catholic Church, a large stone structure, was built in 1924 and the parish is the oldest Catholic parish developed by Highland Scots on Cape Breton Island. Judique is surrounded by many other villages, including Long Point, Craigmore, and Creignish to the south, and northerly, Port Hood, Mabou, Inverness, Margaree and Cheticamp. Lying on the Ceilidh Trail (Trunk 19), the village sits on the edge of St. George's Bay in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Here is the "sunset side" of Cape Breton Island with some of the most spectacular colours ever viewed over western waters. Christy's Look-off is half-way between the Canso Causeway and Judique where you can get a spectcular view of the waterway to the Strait of Canso. Waters are warm for swimming in July and August. In spring you can witness the lobster fishermen (and women) coming and going from the three harbours in the area.

Notable people

* Buddy MacMaster, Cape Breton Fiddler * Dan R. MacDonald, Cape Breton Fiddler/Composer * John G. Gibson, writer-historian, author of Old and New World Highland Bagpiping, and Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping 1745-1945 * Andrea Beaton, fiddler * Natalie MacMaster, fiddler, JCHS * Glenn Graham, fiddler, JCHS * Ashley MacIsaac, fiddler, JCHS * Stephanie Wills, fiddler, JCHS * Wendy MacIsaac, JCHS * Michael MacDonald, settler, songwriter * Amy Cotton - Olympian 2004 Athens - Judo * Andrew MacDonald - AHL Bridgeport Tigers Defensemen (New York Islanders farm team)

Origins of the name

The origins of the name Judique have evoked many an opinion. A great majority of the people of Judique hold that it is a First Nations (Mi'kmaw) word meaning water. However, according to Thomas J. Brown's Place Names of the Province of Nova Scotia, the name is said to mean a river or stream where the water turns swiftly forming eddies, and is of French origin. Another story relates to Nicholas Denys who had fishing stations along the coast of what now is Inverness County. One of Denys's sea captains, on a return trip to Arichat with a cargo of fish, was reading Scripture from the Book of Judith. It was a beautiful day and as he was passing along the coast of what is now Judique, he was overcome by the rolling hills and greenery of the area. It is said that it was recorded in his log with the name "Judic" which in course of time was written "Judique." A more recent insight came through some visitors from Quebec who stood at Indian Point and told those gathered that “jou-jeu” is known as a small toy in Quebec that twirls and moves around like a spinning top, the colloquialism for such a child’s game is jou. “Dique,” they said, “ is ‘dike’ and it’s easy to see where dikes of land exist around Indian Point. The name fits this place exactement."