Port Wade is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Annapolis County. It is situated at the foot of North Mountain on the shore of the Annapolis Basin. An earlier French name was Pree Bourgeois and it was later known as West Ferry until 1905 when it was named after

Fletcher Bath Wade Fletcher Bath Wade (September 9, 1852 in Granville, Nova Scotia – May 23, 1905) was a Canadian politician and barrister. He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in 1900 as a member of the Liberal Party to represent the riding of ...

. The

Middleton and Victoria Beach Railway The Middleton and Victoria Beach Railway was a historic Canadian railway which ran from Middleton to Port Wade in Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, Canada. It was purchased and completed by the Halifax and Southwestern Railway in 1906. A portion of ...

terminated here. Iron ore from mines at

Torbrook Torbrook is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Annapolis County. It is located on the South Mountain of Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley to the east of the Nictaux River. The community was settled in the early 19th ...

was transshipped here. Two houses in the village are municipally designated heritage properties. Captain James Anthony House was built c. 1853 in a modified Nova Scotia vernacular architectural style with Classical Revival influences. The Captain Snow House built c. 1895, is described as ''an impressive example of the modified Gothic Revival style with Italianate and Queen Anne Revival influences.''

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Communities in Annapolis County, Nova Scotia {{AnnapolisNS-geo-stub