Beaver Brook is a small community in the

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province of

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, located in Colchester County. It is a mainly rural community with one small saw mill. Beaver Brook is located on the 236 Highway just west of the community of Old Barns. The "Beaver Brook" runs through the community's farm fields and finally into the

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at the headwaters of the

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. The land is gently rolling, glaciated hills with fertile soils. Dairy farming is the main agriculture industry in Beaver Brook. Corn and soy beans are the main crops. Eagles from Cobequid Bay and the close by

Shubenacadie River The Shubenacadie River is a river in Nova Scotia, Canada. It has a meander length of approximately 72 km from its source at Shubenacadie Grand Lake to its mouth at the historic seaport village of Maitland on Cobequid Bay, site of the building ...

often fly over Beaver Brook. Hawks are common as well as foxes.

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is a busy road that is a shorter route to Windsor, NS, the beginning of the Annapolis Valley Many of the residents of Beaver Brook work in Truro, a fifteen-minute drive away.

References

Beaver Brook on Destination Nova Scotia
Beaver Brook Garden

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