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The Valley Journal Advertiser is a weekly newspaper serving Annapolis, Kings and Hants counties in Nova Scotia.It was formed in 2016 by merging the formerly separate Hants Journal and Kings County Advertiser; [2] although the two publications produce a single merged print edition covering both counties, website content remains targeted to each county under the separate titles.
Windsor is a community located in Hants County, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is a service centre for the western part of the county and is situated on Highway 101 . The community has a history dating back to its use by the Mi'kmaq Nation for several millennia prior to European colonization.
A blockhouse was built at the site in the 1750s to protect Halifax from attacks by the Mi'kmaq people.The land was subsequently developed as small farms. In 1893, the land was acquired by a private company, the Fairview Lawn Cemetery Limited, for a non-denominational cemetery because the Camp Hill Cemetery in the centre of the city was running out of room.
The funeral homes had been the only service available twenty-four hours day with vehicles capable of transporting patients in a horizontal position. In 1968, eight Nova Scotia funeral homes decided to remove ambulances from their list of services provided to their community. Originally intended as just a favour for neighbours, the funeral homes ...
Three Mile Plains is an unincorporated community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in West Hants Regional Municipality. Three Mile Plains, along with Five Mile Plains, was originally inhabited by African-American settlers who called it Windsor Plains. The community was also once called Seven Mile Plains. [citation needed]
Members of some prominent Windsor and Nova Scotian families are buried in the Old Parish Burying Ground including: Isaac DesChamps, the fourth Chief Justice of Nova Scotia (1785-1788), Winckworth Tonge, grandson of one of the original land grantees, and Susanna Francklin, wife of Lieutenant Governor Michael Francklin who donated the land for ...
Pages in category "People from Windsor, Nova Scotia" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Brooklyn saw increased development during the late 1800s after the Midland Railway built a line across Hants County between Windsor and Truro. Thus Brooklyn Station was created, although its post office would be called Newport (P.O.) and this was approved on 5 July 1951.