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Basketball was introduced to Nova Scotia at the YMCA in Amherest in 1894, by J. Howard Crocker who learned the game as a student of James Naismith, the inventor of basketball. [8] [9] Amherst is home of the Amherst Ramblers, a Junior A Hockey League team from the Maritime Hockey League. All home games are played out of the 2,500 seat Amherst ...
Halifax Public Libraries (HPL) is a Canadian public library system, serving residents of Halifax in Nova Scotia.It is the largest public library system in Nova Scotia, [3] with over 2.8 million visits to library branches and 172,520 active registered borrowers or 44% of the municipality's population. [4]
Eastern Counties Regional Library (ECRL) [1] is a regional public library system, providing free public library services to the counties of Guysborough, Richmond and Inverness in Nova Scotia, Canada. The library system is governed by the Eastern Counties Regional Library Board and operates under the terms of the Nova Scotia Libraries Act.
There is a stone marker near the Nova Scotia visitor centre off the Trans-Canada Highway in Amherst, Nova Scotia commemorating the village's existence. The pastured fields of the former Beaubassin village contain extensive archaeological resources including glass and ceramic artifacts and charred buildings that attest to the Acadian way of life.
The street was named after Simon Bradstreet Robie (1770–1858), a prominent Nova Scotia judge and politician. [2] There are also streets named after Judge Robie in Truro and Amherst, Nova Scotia . Prior to circa 1910, Robie Street ended at North Street, with the continuation of the road to the north being part of Kempt Road and continued ...
The 1960s saw the Trans-Canada Highway system being upgraded to four-lane expressways. This included a new route between Sackville and Amherst running roughly parallel to LaPlanche Street (Nova Scotia Highway 104-Nova Scotia Trunk 2 meeting New Brunswick Highway 2). Services inevitably became concentrated at the Aulac exit, where the PEI route ...
Distribution of Nova Scotia's 27 towns by population. A town is a type of municipality in the Canadian Province of Nova Scotia. Towns are incorporated by order by the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board pursuant to sections 383 through 388 of Nova Scotia's Municipal Government Act. [1] Nova Scotia had 26 towns at the time of the 2016 Census ...
Colchester County is located in north central Nova Scotia. The majority of the county is governed by the Municipality of the County of Colchester, the county also is home to two independent incorporated towns, Stewiacke and Truro , two village commissions in Bible Hill and Tatamagouche , and the Millbrook 27 First Nations reserve.