Sluice Point, Nova Scotia
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Sluice Point (french: Pointe du Sault) is a community in the
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province of
Nova Scotia Nova Scotia ( ; ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces. Nova Scotia is Latin for "New Scotland". Most of the population are native Eng ...
, located in the Argyle Municipality in
Yarmouth County Yarmouth County is a rural county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. It has both traditional Anglo- Scottish and Acadian French culture as well as significant inland wilderness areas, including over 365 lakes and several major rivers. It c ...
.


Education

The school started with the primary department in 1870. There was opposition to both the school and the Indian Sluice Point Bridge (to Surette's Island). Education was not well understood then, and one man, Jacques Babin, stubbornly affirmed that no bridge or school would be built while he was alive. In the primary department there were about twenty-five seats. It was big enough at that time, but the population increased, so they built the advanced department in 1902.


Climate

Sluice Point lies on a climatic zone known as a
humid continental climate A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and freezing ...
(
Köppen climate classification The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems. It was first published by German-Russian climatologist Wladimir Köppen (1846–1940) in 1884, with several later modifications by Köppen, notabl ...
''Dfb''). Winters are cool and snowy or rainy with a January average of , temperatures below are rare for the area, and the average high never drops to below freezing at any point in the year. During this period of time, the weather can be unsettled and cloudy due to the
Nor'easters A nor'easter (also northeaster; see below), or an East Coast low is a synoptic-scale extratropical cyclone in the western North Atlantic Ocean. The name derives from the direction of the winds that blow from the northeast. The original use o ...
coming up the coast from the southwest, however in the past few years there has been an absence of snowfall. As a result, Sluice Point averages only 85–170 hours of sunshine from December to February or 36%–44% of possible sunshine. The average annual snowfall is , which can come from Nor'easters from the southwest with a maximum snow depth of in January, owing to its mild winters, among the mildest in Canada east of the Rockies. Sluice Point's summers are warm due to the woodlands which keeps summer temperatures warm, meaning temperatures above are common. The average high temperature in the warmest month, August is . Spring and fall are transitional seasons in which falls are warmer than spring since the waters are at the warmest temperatures in fall and the coldest during early spring. July and August the driest months on average and November the wettest month on average. The highest temperature ever recorded in Sluice Point was on 2 August 2016.


References

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