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List Of Historic Places In Kings County, Nova Scotia
This is a list of historic places in Kings County, Nova Scotia. List of historic places See also * List of historic places in Nova Scotia * List of National Historic Sites of Canada in Nova Scotia * Heritage Property Act (Nova Scotia) The ''Heritage Property Act'' is a provincial statute which allows for the identification, protection and rehabilitation of cultural heritage properties in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. The Act offers five types of protection: # Provinci ... {{Nova Scotia parks Kings * ...
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Aylesford, Nova Scotia
Aylesford, since its formation, has always been a farming community. It is situated in western Kings County in the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia, Canada. The settlement was named after the fourth Earl of Aylesford, Heneage Finch, who was Lord Of The Bedchamber to George III from 1772-1777. The community is located between the North and South Mountains, and is roughly a 15 minute to Canadian Forces Base Greenwood, and a 10 minute drive to its closest neighbour, the Town Of Berwick. Aylesford is located on the Evangeline Trail (Trunk 1) scenic tourist route, which was named after the epic 1847 H.W. Longfellow poem entitled '' Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie''. History Aylesford is one of the oldest surviving settlements in Kings County, originally settled by Ulster Scots (Scots-Irish) during the early 1770s. Between 1772 and 1781, the population of Nova Scotia actually fell - from 19,000 to 12,000 - but by 1784, after the continued arrival of United Empire Loyalists during t ...
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Heritage Property Act (Nova Scotia)
The ''Heritage Property Act'' is a provincial statute which allows for the identification, protection and rehabilitation of cultural heritage properties in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. The Act offers five types of protection: # Provincial Registry of Heritage Properties (a list of properties designated by the provincial Minister of Communities, Culture and Heritage as possessing provincially significant heritage value); # Provincial Cultural Landscape (a cultural landscape listed on the Provincial Registry); # Municipal Registries of Heritage Properties (a list of properties which the local municipality has determined have a local or community level of heritage value); # Municipal Heritage Conservation Districts (a specific area within a municipality having unique heritage value and subject to regulations intended to ensure the preservation of the district's character while accommodating new development); and # Municipal Cultural Landscapes (a cultural landscape listed ...
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List Of National Historic Sites Of Canada In Nova Scotia
This is a list of List of National Historic Sites of Canada, National Historic Sites (french: Lieux historiques nationaux) in the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Nova Scotia. As of April 2021, there were 91 National Historic Sites designated in Nova Scotia, 26 of which are administered by Parks Canada (identified below by the beaver icon .Nova Scotia
, National Historic Sites of Canada - administered by Parks Canada Numerous Events of National Historic Significance, National Historic Events also occurred across Nova Scotia, and are identified at places associated with them, using the same style of federal plaque which marks National Historic Sites. Several Persons of National Historic Significance, National Historic Persons are commemorated throughout the province in the same way. The markers ...
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List Of Historic Places In Nova Scotia
The list of historic places in the province of Nova Scotia contains heritage sites listed on the Canadian Register of Historic Places (CRHP), all of which are designated as historic places either locally, provincially, federally or by more than one level of government. The list has been divided by county and regional municipality boundaries for reasons of length. See separate lists for the following geographic divisions: *Cape Breton Regional Municipality *Halifax Regional Municipality *Region of Queens Municipality *Annapolis County *Antigonish County * Colchester County *Cumberland County *Digby County *Guysborough County *Hants County * Inverness County * Kings County * Lunenburg County *Pictou County *Richmond County *Shelburne County *Victoria County *Yarmouth County See also {{Commons category, Cultural heritage monuments in Nova Scotia * List of National Historic Sites of Canada in Nova Scotia * Heritage Property Act (Nova Scotia) The ''Heritage Property Act'' is a ...
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New Minas, Nova Scotia
New Minas is a village located in the eastern part of Kings County in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley. As of 2011, the population was 5,135. Geography New Minas borders the town of Kentville to the west and the unincorporated community of Greenwich to the east. The town of Wolfville is further east on the other side of Greenwich. New Minas is approximately 100 km northwest of Halifax. The village is located along the south bank of the Cornwallis River occupying the lower slopes of the South Mountain. Nova Scotia's Highway No. 1 runs through the village forming the main street. History New Minas was founded in 1682 by Acadians from the Grand Pré area, the largest of the settlements known as Les Mines or Minas after the French copper mines explored at Cape d'Or at the entrance to the Minas Basin in the 1600s. As the Minas settlement grew, families moved westward up the Cornwallis River led by Pierre Terriot and founded a new settlement which came to be known to English sur ...
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Upper Canard, Nova Scotia
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North Medford, Nova Scotia
North is one of the four compass points or cardinal directions. It is the opposite of south and is perpendicular to east and west. ''North'' is a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography. Etymology The word ''north'' is related to the Old High German ''nord'', both descending from the Proto-Indo-European unit *''ner-'', meaning "left; below" as north is to left when facing the rising sun. Similarly, the other cardinal directions are also related to the sun's position. The Latin word ''borealis'' comes from the Greek '' boreas'' "north wind, north", which, according to Ovid, was personified as the wind-god Boreas, the father of Calais and Zetes. ''Septentrionalis'' is from ''septentriones'', "the seven plow oxen", a name of ''Ursa Major''. The Greek ἀρκτικός (''arktikós'') is named for the same constellation, and is the source of the English word ''Arctic''. Other languages have other derivations. For example, in Lezgian, ''kefer'' can mean b ...
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Auburn, Nova Scotia
Auburn is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Kings County, situated west of Aylesford. The second oldest Anglican church in Nova Scotia is situated there, consecrated in 1790 by Bishop Inglis. Modelled on Christopher Wren's London church designs, St. Marys Anglican Church is known as "The Little Wren Church". Complete with a Palladian window over the chancel,Nova Scotia Museum (photo)"St. Marys Church, Auburn, NS, 1931" it most closely resembles St James's Church, Piccadilly St James's Church, Piccadilly, also known as St James's Church, Westminster, and St James-in-the-Fields, is an Anglican church on Piccadilly in the centre of London, United Kingdom. The church was designed and built by Sir Christopher Wren. T .... References Communities in Kings County, Nova Scotia {{KingsNS-geo-stub ...
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Avonport, Nova Scotia
Avonport is a community in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada, located in Kings County between the mouths of the Avon River and the Gaspereau River. Early settlers included the Fillis and Reid families. It was part of the Horton Township settlement and was known as Horton Point until its name was changed to Avonport in 1864.C. Bruce Fergusson, "Avonport"
''Place-Names and Places of Nova Scotia'' Nova Scotia Archives (1967), p. 25-26.
The arrived in 1869 stimulating a number export industries including apple warehouses and a brickyard, later to become Shaw Bricks. In 1911, Minnie Brooks became one of the first female station master ...
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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 ...
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Somerset, Kings County, Nova Scotia
Somerset is a rural community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Kings County. Boardman Robinson Boardman Michael Robinson (1876–1952) was a Canadian-American painter, illustrator and cartoonist. Biography Early years Boardman Robinson was born September 6, 1876 in Nova Scotia. He spent his childhood in England and Canada, before mov ... (1876–1952) a well-known Canadian-American artist, illustrator and cartoonist of the early 20th century, was born in Somerset. Pleasant Valley Cemetery in Somerset is the final resting place of Alfred C. Fuller, founder of the Fuller Brush Company.Nova Scotia's Electric ScrapbookAlfred Carl Fuller Memorial ns1763.ca References Communities in Kings County, Nova Scotia General Service Areas in Nova Scotia {{KingsNS-geo-stub ...
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