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Centreville, Kings, Nova Scotia
Centreville is a rural farming community in Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada, located 10 kilometres north of Kentville on Route 359. As of 2021, the population was 1,159. Route 309 and Route 221 cross at the settlement. The village was once a junction on the Cornwallis Valley Railway branchline of the Dominion Atlantic Railway. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Centreville had a population of 1,159 living in 500 of its 511 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 1,129. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. Notable residents Centreville was home to the 1930s artist, Charles Macdonald, famous for his work in concrete. His innovative concrete home in Centreville is now the Charles Macdonald Concrete House Museum. Another important Centreville resident was Roscoe Fillmore Roscoe Alfred Fillmore (10 July 188720 November 1968) was a Canadian radical political activist, horticultural ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rural
In general, a rural area or a countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities. Typical rural areas have a low population density and small settlements. Agricultural areas and areas with forestry typically are described as rural. Different countries have varying definitions of ''rural'' for statistical and administrative purposes. In rural areas, because of their unique economic and social dynamics, and relationship to land-based industry such as agriculture, forestry and resource extraction, the economics are very different from cities and can be subject to boom and bust cycles and vulnerability to extreme weather or natural disasters, such as droughts. These dynamics alongside larger economic forces encouraging to urbanization have led to significant demographic declines, called rural flight, where economic incentives encourage younger populations to go to cities for education and access to jobs, leaving older, less educated and less wealthy populat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nova Scotia Route 221
Route 221 is a collector road in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. It is located in Kings County and Annapolis County in the Annapolis Valley and connects Kingsport to Spa Springs. Valley residents informally refer to Route 221 as the "Back Road", since it runs parallel to Trunk 1, but instead of running through the centre of the valley, it runs close to the less-populated southern base of the North Mountain. Communities * Kingsport *Habitant *Canning * Sheffield Mills *Gibson Woods * Centreville * Billtown * Lakeville * Woodville *Kinsmans Corners * Grafton * Buckleys Corner *Welsford * Dempseys Corner *Weltons Corner * North Kingston * Spa Springs History The section of Collector Highway 221 from Canning to Kingsport was once designated as part of the Trunk Highway 41. See also *List of Nova Scotia provincial highways This is a list of numbered highways in the province of Nova Scotia. Arterial (100-series) highways A 100-series highway is a designation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roscoe Fillmore
Roscoe Alfred Fillmore (10 July 188720 November 1968) was a Canadian radical political activist, horticulturalist, and author from the Maritimes. Born in the tiny farming community of Lumsden, Albert County, New Brunswick, Fillmore's mother died in 1894 from tuberculosis at the age of 29. The village was abandoned not long thereafter due to declining soil quality and the family moved around Albert County for several years before settling in the village of Albert. Like his father and many working-class people from the region, Fillmore traveled to the United States for work. While in Portland, Maine, he heard a soapbox speaker for the Socialist Party and he started his path to socialism. Upon returning home, he eventually became the "region's most active socialist agitator" for the Socialist Party of Canada in the Maritimes before World War I. In 1909, he was arrested in St. John for attempting to give a speech. The case attracted the attention of "Big Bill" Haywood, one of the lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Macdonald Concrete House Museum
The Charles Macdonald Concrete House is a two-storey residential structure located in Centreville, Nova Scotia, Canada. It was built entirely out of reinforced concrete in 1910 by Charles Macdonald, a local folk artist and owner of a cement brick factory. History Charles Macdonald was born April 5, 1874, in Centreville, a small rural community located in the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia. Macdonald learned basic carpentry skills while working at local industries - including a coffin factory and a carriage factory - and during his tenure as a ships carpenter between 1898 and 1908. During a four-month voyage to Brazil, Macdonald became interested in the local architecture, which included compact Spanish blockhouses. Macdonald resided in Vancouver from 1908 to 1910 where he joined the Socialist Party of Canada. Macdonald returned to Nova Scotia in 1910, and established his company, Kentville Concrete, operating the business according to his Socialist philosophy. In 1916 Macdona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Statistics Canada
Statistics Canada (StatCan; french: Statistique Canada), formed in 1971, is the agency of the Government of Canada commissioned with producing statistics to help better understand Canada, its population, resources, economy, society, and culture. It is headquartered in Ottawa.Statistics Canada, 150 Tunney's Pasture Driveway Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0T6; Statistique Canada 150, promenade du pré Tunney Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0T6 The agency is led by the chief statistician of Canada, currently Anil Arora, who assumed the role on September 19, 2016. StatCan is responsible to Parliament through the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, currently François-Philippe Champagne. Statistics Canada acts as the national statistical agency for Canada, and Statistics Canada produces statistics for all the provinces as well as the federal government. In addition to conducting about 350 active surveys on virtually all aspects of Canadian life, the '' Statistics Act'' mandates that Statistic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 Canadian Census
The 2021 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population with a reference date of May 11, 2021. It follows the 2016 Canadian census, which recorded a population of 35,151,728. The overall response rate was 98%, which is slightly lower than the response rate for the 2016 census. It recorded a population of 36,991,981, a 5.2% increase from 2016. Planning Consultation on census program content was from September 11 to December 8, 2017. The census was conducted by Statistics Canada, and was contactless as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. The agency had considered delaying the census until 2022. About 900 supervisors and 31,000 field enumerators were hired to conduct the door-to-door survey of individuals and households who had not completed the census questionnaire by late May or early June. Canvassing agents wore masks and maintained a physical distance to comply with COVID-19 safety regulations. Questionnaire In early May 2021, Statistics Can ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominion Atlantic Railway
The Dominion Atlantic Railway was a historic railway which operated in the western part of Nova Scotia in Canada, primarily through an agricultural district known as the Annapolis Valley. The Dominion Atlantic Railway was unusually diverse for a regional railway, operating its own hotel chain, steamship line and named luxury trains such as the ''Flying Bluenose''. It is credited with playing a major role in developing Nova Scotia's tourism and agriculture industries. The DAR's corporate headquarters were originally located in London, United Kingdom, until 1912, followed by Montreal, Quebec, but was always operationally headquartered in Kentville, Nova Scotia, where the railway retained a unique identity and a high degree of independence until the end of the steam era. A depiction of Evangeline from the poem ''Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie'' published in 1847 by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was incorporated into the DAR logo along with the text 'Land of Evangeline Route'. The comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cornwallis Valley Railway
The Cornwallis Valley Railway (CVR) was a historic Canadian railway in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley. It was built in 1889 and ran from Kentville to Kingsport serving the Cornwallis Township area of Kings County. For most of its history, it operated as a branch line of the Dominion Atlantic Railway and was sometimes known as the "Kingsport Line". Route The CVR crossed its namesake, the Cornwallis River, at Kentville and ran north to stations at the Camp Aldershot military base, Mill Village (Steam Mill), and Centreville and then ran east to Ford's Crossing (Gibson Woods), Sheffield Mills, Hillaton, Canning, Pereau, and ended on the large government wharf at Kingsport. An additional branch, the North Mountain Line was added in 1914 running from Centreville to Weston. Creation The Cornwallis Valley Railway was formed in 1887 by merchants in Canning, Nova Scotia, and Kentville including the Member of Parliament Frederick William Borden. Canning merchant Stephen She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nova Scotia Route 309
Route 309 is a collector road in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. It is located in Shelburne County and connects Barrington at Trunk 3/ Highway 103 with Clyde River at Trunk 3/ Highway 103. Communities * Barrington * Coffinscroft * Villagedale * Upper Port La Tour * Reynoldscroft * Eel Bay * Thomasville * Port Clyde * Clyde River Parks *Sand Hills Provincial Park See also *List of Nova Scotia provincial highways This is a list of numbered highways in the province of Nova Scotia. Arterial (100-series) highways A 100-series highway is a designation applied to a highway that can be a controlled-access expressway, Super-2, or fully divided freeway. The ... References Nova Scotia provincial highways Roads in Shelburne County, Nova Scotia {{NovaScotia-road-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farming
Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to live in cities. The history of agriculture began thousands of years ago. After gathering wild grains beginning at least 105,000 years ago, nascent farmers began to plant them around 11,500 years ago. Sheep, goats, pigs and cattle were domesticated over 10,000 years ago. Plants were independently cultivated in at least 11 regions of the world. Industrial agriculture based on large-scale monoculture in the twentieth century came to dominate agricultural output, though about 2 billion people still depended on subsistence agriculture. The major agricultural products can be broadly grouped into foods, fibers, fuels, and raw materials (such as rubber). Food classes include cereals (grains), vegetables, fruits, cooking oils, meat, milk, e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nova Scotia Route 359
Route 359 is a collector road in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. It is located in Kings County and connects Kentville near Trunk 1 with Halls Harbour. Communities *Kentville *Aldershot * Steam Mill Village * Centreville *East Halls Harbour Road * Halls Harbour See also *List of Nova Scotia provincial highways This is a list of numbered highways in the province of Nova Scotia. Arterial (100-series) highways A 100-series highway is a designation applied to a highway that can be a controlled-access expressway, Super-2, or fully divided freeway. The ... References Nova Scotia provincial highways Roads in Kings County, Nova Scotia {{NovaScotia-road-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kentville, Nova Scotia
Kentville is an incorporated town in Nova Scotia. It is the most populous town in the Annapolis Valley. As of 2021, the town's population was 6,630. Its census agglomeration is 26,929. History Kentville owes its location to the Cornwallis River which, downstream from Kentville, becomes a large tidal river at the Minas Basin. The riverbank at the current location of Kentville provided an easy fording point. The Mi'kmaq name for the location was "Penooek". The ford and later the bridge in Kentville made the area an important crossroads for other settlements in the Annapolis Valley. Kentville also marked the limit of navigation of sailing ships. Acadian settlement The area was first settled by Acadians, who built many dykes along the river to keep the high Bay of Fundy tides out of their farmland. These dykes created the ideal fertile soil that the Annapolis Valley is known for. The Acadians were expelled from the area in the Bay of Fundy Campaign (1755) by the Acadian Expulsion, B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
