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The county of Hants was established June 17, 1781, on territory taken from Kings County and consisted of the townships of Windsor, Falmouth and Newport. [ 3 ] [ a ] The name Hants is a long-standing abbreviation for the English county of Hampshire , from the Old English name Hantescire .
With its administrative seat in Elmsdale, the district municipality occupies the eastern half of Hants County from the Minas Basin to the boundary with Halifax County, sharing this boundary with the West Hants Regional Municipality. It was made in 1861 from the former townships of Uniacke, Rawdon, Douglas, Walton, Shubenacadie and Maitland.
List of communities in Hants County, Nova Scotia Communities are ordered by the highway on which they are located, whose routes start after each terminus near the largest community. Trunk routes
The Hantsport Bruins are a dynasty in the Hants County Hockey League, winning 8 Howard Dill Cups since 1998. Some say that sports in Hantsport are "the glue" that holds the town together. In the 2005-06 track and field season, Kira Pederson set the Hantsport Junior High 100 m dash record with a time of 13.34 s, which still holds to this day.
The Annapolis Valley Regional Centre for Education (AVRCE) (formerly Annapolis Valley Regional School Board) [1] is the public school district responsible for the approximately 40 elementary, middle level, and high schools in Annapolis County, Kings County, and the West Hants Municipal District of Hants County in Nova Scotia, Canada.
The upper tier is Hampshire County Council; the town centre is combined with Stakes North as the single-councillor division of Waterlooville and Stakes North, while another division covers Cowplain and Hart Plain. For representation to the House of Commons, Waterlooville falls within the Fareham and Waterlooville constituency.
Silchester is a civil parish with an elected parish council. Silchester parish is in the ward of Pamber and Silchester, [18] part of Basingstoke and Deane District Council and of Hampshire County Council and all three councils are responsible for different aspects of local government. The ward returns two councillors to the borough council. [19]
Whilst they form part of the ceremonial county of Hampshire, the two cities of Southampton and Portsmouth are unitary authorities, independent from Hampshire County Council. The county council comprises 78 elected councillors, who meet in the city of Winchester, which is the county town. [6] Since 1997, the council has been controlled by the ...