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(0)Farming long ago on the 'burnt land'
Article online since October 23rd 2008“The burnt land”. To me, there’s a hint of the dark and sinister in these words, but all they really are is a description of land from which trees have been felled and removed, and the brush or debris burned. The piece of land thus cleared – the “burnt land” – was then farmed...
Vieux Logis, or an old Kings County fort
Article online since October 16th 2008A “French military fort” is said to have once stood in New Minas, overlooking the Cornwallis River and folklore has it that the fort was located at the western edge of the village. Regard this folklore with skepticism. Possibly the French once had a fort in what is now New Minas. But...
Falmouth House should have been preserved
Article online since October 9th 2008As I’ve mentioned in this column previously, after the expulsion of the Acadians some of their homes and outbuildings were left standing, despite a concerted effort by the military to destroy them. Most of the Acadian homesteads in Kings County were burned to the ground. In his history...
Ambrose F. Church and his maps
Article online since October 2nd 2008No statue of him exists anywhere and, as far as I know, no plaque honoring him and his accomplishments exists anywhere either. Until the Internet came along, you had to dig into relatively obscure corners – the publications of the Nova Scotia Historical Society, for example - to find any...
Mi'kmaq, Acadians were first in Canning
Article online since September 25th 2008“Perhaps it was 200 years ago the Acadians spied the advantage of the land, settled there, made some clearings and planted their orchards,” Dr. Benjamin Rand wrote in the 19th century. Rand is quoted by provincial archivist W. C. Milner in his book, The Basin of Minas and Its Early Settlers....
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- Nova Scotia privateer; a Kentville connection ( September 18th 2008 )
- Folklore and facts about New Minas ( September 14th 2008 )
- Patterson's book has wealth of ship lore ( July 24th 2008 )
- Skinner's interest in old maps a bit of an understatement ( July 9th 2008 )
- The origin of the New Ross Road ( July 3rd 2008 )
- The dykes: chaos will come again ( June 27th 2008 )
- Ernest L. Eaton, the 'other Eaton historian' ( June 20th 2008 )
- The Six Rod Road and Aroostook ( June 12th 2008 )
- Those vanishing community history books ( June 7th 2008 )
- Excavating an Acadian homestead ( May 29th 2008 )
- The Acadian settlers in New Minas ( May 23rd 2008 )
- The settlers of 'Ye Town of Canard' ( May 16th 2008 )
- When Kings and Hants Counties were one ( May 8th 2008 )
- Early Cornwallis River ferries, bridges ( May 1st 2008 )
- Life and times of local Planters ( April 17th 2008 )
- Chase, Chute - who was the Apple King? ( April 4th 2008 )
- Cribbage popular with the Legions ( March 27th 2008 )
- Acadian, Planter origin of country roads ( February 23rd 2008 )
- Kerosene comments and a history preview ( February 15th 2008 )
- Centreville history in the works ( January 31st 2008 )
- 'Gram' Baxter and Canning's Waverly Hotel ( January 18th 2008 )
- Harnessing Fundy an old, old dream ( January 11th 2008 )
- Kerosene: fuel and folk medicine ( January 5th 2008 )
- History books make great gifts ( December 13th 2007 )
- A biography of a 'gracious lady' ( December 6th 2007 )
- Writing the history of Kings County ( November 15th 2007 )
- Money and men of the old railway ( October 27th 2007 )
- Remembering a Kentville auto pioneer ( October 21st 2007 )
- Trivia from 1920s, 1930s scrapbook ( October 13th 2007 )
- Mi’kmaqs: a day of remembrance ( October 4th 2007 )
- Flashback: KFD celebrates 40th anniversary ( September 27th 2007 )
- Disaster in Kings County - the gale of 1927 ( September 20th 2007 )
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