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Birchtown is a community and National Historic Site in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located near Shelburne in the Municipal District of Shelburne County. [2] Founded in 1783, the village was the largest settlement of Black Loyalists and the largest free settlement of ethnic Africans in North America in the eighteenth century.
New Glasgow is a town in Pictou County, in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It is situated on the banks of the East River of Pictou, which flows into Pictou Harbour, a sub-basin of the Northumberland Strait . The town's population was 9,075 in the 2016 census. New Glasgow is at the centre of the province's fourth largest urban area; the ...
Barton is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the District of Clare in Digby County. The village is named after the loyalist Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Barton of a New Jersey Volunteer Regiment.
The Westray Mine was a Canadian coal mine in Plymouth, Nova Scotia. Westray was owned and operated by Curragh Resources Incorporated (Curragh Inc.), which obtained both provincial and federal government money to open the mine, and supply the local electric power utility with coal. The mine opened in September 1991, but closed eight months later ...
Douglas, Nova Scotia. Coordinates: 45.3°N 63.6°W. Douglas is a former township in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. The township was the eventual destination of Loyalists fleeing the Siege of Ninety Six during the American Revolutionary War. In 1861, along with the township of Rawdon, Nova Scotia, the Douglas township became part of the ...
Hortonville, Nova Scotia. Hortonville is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Kings County at the mouth of the Gaspereau River and is part of the Landscape of Grand Pré UNESCO World Heritage Site . The site of Fort Vieux Logis is located by the river at Hortonville, built by the British during Father Le Loutre's War ...
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Canning had a population of 716 living in 311 of its 327 total private dwellings, a change of -2.1% from its 2016 population of 731. With a land area of 1.86 km 2 (0.72 sq mi), it had a population density of 384.9/km 2 (997.0/sq mi) in 2021. [6]
Smith's Cove in Nova Scotia. Smith's Cove is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the Municipality of the District of Digby. in Digby County. It is one of several villages in the Annapolis Valley district of Nova Scotia. Smith's Cove is a small community, named after Loyalist Joseph Smith, that overlooks the Annapolis ...