Kentville, Nova Scotia - Kentville, Nova Scotia Kentville (2001 population 5,610) is the largest town in Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada. Together with outlying towns such as New Minas and Wolfville, over 30,000 people live in the area. Kentville is one of the main towns in the Annapolis Valley. The area was first settled by Acadians, but after they were expelled from the area in 1755, British people started inhabiting the area. Settlement was expedited by the United Empire Loyalists during the American Revolution. It was originally known as Horton's Corner, but was named Kentville in 1826 after Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (brother of King George III), who visited the area in 1794. Agriculture, especially growing apples, is the dominant industry in the area. Also, the Michelin tire company.
List of communities in Nova Scotia - List of communities in Nova Scotia Communities of the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada Advocate Harbour, Nova Scotia Amherst, Nova Scotia Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia Antigonish, Nova Scotia Argyle, Nova Scotia Arichat, Nova Scotia Aspen, Nova Scotia Aylesford, Nova Scotia Baddeck, Nova Scotia Barrington, Nova Scotia Barrington Passage, Nova Scotia Bear River, Nova Scotia Bedford, Nova Scotia Berwick, Nova Scotia Bridgetown, Nova Scotia Bridgewater, Nova Scotia Brighton, Nova Scotia Brookfield, Nova Scotia Brooklyn, Nova Scotia Canning, Nova Scotia Canso, Nova Scotia Chester, Nova Scotia Cheticamp, Nova Scotia Cheverie, Nova Scotia Church Point, Nova Scotia Clare, Nova Scotia Clark's Harbour, Nova Scotia Clementsport, Nova Scotia Clementsvale, Nova Scotia Country Harbour, Nova Scotia Cumberland, Nova Scotia Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (now part of Halifax) Debert, Nova Scotia Deep Brook, Nova Scotia.
Kent (disambiguation) - Ford Anglia Fort Kent, Maine The Kent Applicative Operating System, a computer operating system Kent Acres, Delaware Kent City, Michigan Kent Group National Park, in Tasmania, Australia Kent Narrows, Maryland The Kent Recursive Calculator, a programming language Kentville, Nova Scotia New Kent Road in London New Kent County, Virginia.
Annapolis Valley - Annapolis Valley Annapolis Valley is an area of Nova Scotia located between the Bay of Fundy and central Nova Scotia, Canada. Blessed with plenty of sunshine, it is famous for its annual apple crop. It is home to Acadia University in Wolfville. Much of the area was first occupied by Acadians until they were expelled by the British in 1755. The town of Grand Pre was and continues to be a centre of Acadian culture and was the setting of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Evangeline. Since then it has most been settled by British immigrants, United Empire Loyalists and "Foreign Protestants". Important centres: Annapolis Royal Grand Pre Hantsport Kentville New Minas Windsor Wolfville\n.
List of B Postal Codes - B Postal Codes This is a list of postal codes for the province of Nova Scotia in Canada with the prefix B. B0C - Northern Victoria County B0E - Inverness County, Richmond County, and southern Victoria County B0H - Antigonish County, and Eastern Guysborough B0J - Halifax County, Chester, and Lunenberg B0K - Pictou County, southern shore of the Northumberland Strait B0L - Northern and western Cumberland County B0M - Northern shore of the Minas Channel, Minas Basin, and Cobelquid Bay B0N - Hants County B0P - Kings County B0R - Western Lunenburg County B0S - Annapolis County B0T - Shelburne, and Queens County B0V - Digby Neck B0W - Digby County, Yarmouth County, and Barrington B1A - Glace Bay B1B - Port Morien B1C - Louisbourg B1E - Reserve Mines.
List of the 100 largest metropolitan areas in Canada - Scotia 359,183 370,000 14 Victoria-Saanich, British Columbia 311,902 320,000 15 Windsor, Ontario 307,877 320,000 16 Oshawa-Whitby-Clarington, Ontario 296,298 310,000 17 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan 225,927 230,000 18 Regina, Saskatchewan 192,800 190,000 19 St. John's-Mount Pearl-Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador 172,918 170,000 20 Greater Sudbury, Ontario 155,601 150,000 21 Saguenay, Quebec 154,938 150,000 22 Sherbrooke, Quebec 153,811 160,000 23 Barrie-Innisfil-Springwater, Ontario 148,480 160,000 24 Kelowna-Central Okanagan H, British Columbia 147,739 150,000 25 Abbotsford-Mission, British Columbia 147,370 150,000 26 Kingston-South Frontenac, Ontario 146,838 150,000 27 Trois-Rivieres-Cap-de-la-Medeleine-Trois-Rivieres-Ouest, Quebec 137,507 130,000 28 Saint John-Quispamsis, New Brunswick 122,678 120,000 29 Thunder Bay, Ontario 121,986 120,000 30 Moncton-Riverview-Dieppe, New Brunswick 117,727 120,000 31 Guelph, Ontario 117,344 120,000 32 Cape Breton, Nova Scotia 109,330 100,000 33 Chatham-Kent, Ontario 107,709 100,000 34 Peterborough-Smith-Ennismore-Lakefield, Ontario 102,423 110,000 35 Sarnia-St. Clair, Ontario.
Kings County, Nova Scotia - Kings County, Nova Scotia Kings County is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. Formed in August 17th, 1759 the county's northern and eastern boundaries are determined by the Bay of Fundy and Minas Basin, and its western and southern boundaries are the counties of Annapolis, Lunenburg, and Hants..
Kingsburg, Nova Scotia - Kingsburg, Nova Scotia Kingsburg, Nova Scotia, is a small community on the south shore that is now mainly a vacation area. The town is located at the end of Kingsburg peninsula by the towns of Rose Bay and Riverport. The closest major centre is Bridgewater. It also is not very far from Lunenburg. Kingsburg is located between two beaches: the popular Hirtle's Beach and the lovely, but usually deserted Kingsburg Beach. There are also two uninhabited capes which have hiking trails. Like all of Nova Scotia, the ocean is usually too cold to swim in, but Kingsburg has two large lakes and a number of smaller freshwater ponds that are popular swimming locations. The town was settled by German settlers, some of the Foreign Protestants, who moved.
Victoria County, Nova Scotia - Victoria County, Nova Scotia Victoria County is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. Named after the Queen Victoria, it was established by statute in 1851. Cape Breton County was divided into two counties in that year, with Victoria County being cut off from it..
Inverness County, Nova Scotia - Inverness County, Nova Scotia Inverness County is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. Established as the County of Juste au Corps in 1835, Inverness County was given its present name in 1837. It was called Inverness after Inverness in Scotland, the land from which many of the early settlers came. The boundaries of Inverness County had been previously defined when Cape Breton Island was divided by statute into three Districts in 1823. Inverness County was established within the boundaries of the Northwestern District of Cape Breton Island..
Halifax, Nova Scotia - Halifax, Nova Scotia Halifax is a Canadian city, the provincial capital and largest city of Nova Scotia, and the economic centre of the Atlantic Provinces. As of 1991 the city contained 114,455 inhabitants, and in the late 1990s, all of Halifax County was amalgamated into the "Halifax Regional Municipality" or HRM, including neighbouring Dartmouth and Sable Island, 180km offshore. The population of HRM exceeds 350,000. People from Halifax are called Haligonians. Halifax was founded on July 9, 1749 as a military outpost for the British with a handful of farming settlers. It has the second-largest natural harbour in the world, which is also well protected and ideal for a military base, Citadel Hill. When the Titanic sank in 1912, the search effort was coordinated in Halifax and.
Hants County, Nova Scotia - Hants County, Nova Scotia Hants County is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. It is the smallest county in Canada. The county of Hants was created June 17, 1781, and consisted of the townships of Windsor, Falmouth and Newport. Originally getting its name from the County of Southamptonshire in England, now known as Hampshire, and abbreviated to Hants, the County was established out of part of what had been Kings County. The words of the minutes of the Council of Nova Scotia for June 17, 1781 make it clear that the distance from Horton (the County town of Kings County) and the inconvenience of crossing the Avon River to transact county business were factors which led to a separate county being formed. Four and a.
Halifax County, Nova Scotia - Halifax County, Nova Scotia Halifax County is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. Deriving its name from George Montagu Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax (1716-1771) Halifax County was established by Order-in-Council on August 17, 1759. The boundaries of four other counties - Annapolis, Kings, Cumberland and Lunenburg - were specifically defined at that time, with Halifax County comprising all the part of peninsular Nova Scotia that was not within their limits. Following the Seven Years War, Cape Breton Island was formally annexed to Nova Scotia. For a time it formed part of Halifax County. The boundaries of Halifax County were modified in 1822. That part of St. Mary's Township (established in 1818) which had been in Halifax County was annexed to and included within Sydney.
Guysborough County, Nova Scotia - Guysborough County, Nova Scotia Guysborough County is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. Taking its name from the Township of Guysborough, which was named in honour of Sir Guy Carlton, Guysborough County was created when Sydney County (Antigonish County) was divided in 1836. In 1840, the Township of St. Mary's, in Guysborough County, was set off as a separate and distinct District. In 1863 the dividing line between Halifax and Guysborough Counties was altered and a polling district was added to Guysborough County..
Digby County, Nova Scotia - Digby County, Nova Scotia Digby County is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. Taking its name from the Township of Digby, which had been named in honour of Rear Admiral Robert Digby who dispatched the Atlanta to convey loyalists from New York City in the spring of 1783 to Conway, which became known as Digby, Digby County was established in 1837. Previously, from August 17, 1759, when Nova Scotia was first divided into counties, this area had been part of Annapolis County. Twenty-four years later, in 1861, Digby County was divided into two districts - the District of Digby and the District of Clare..
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia - Dartmouth, Nova Scotia Dartmouth is the smaller cross-harbour twin city to Nova Scotia's capital of Halifax, now joined in municipal amalgamation as HRM - Halifax Regional Municicpality..
2003 Nova Scotia election - 2003 Nova Scotia election The 2003 Nova Scotia election was held on August 5, 2003. It saw the ruling Conservatives reduced to a minority government. The elction was called by John Hamm's Conservatives who decided to hold a rare summer election in hopes of strengthening their hold on the legislature. Running against them were Darrell Dexter's NDP and Danny Graham's Liberal's. Hamm's party ran on a policy of fiscal management, tax cuts, and on there record of fufilling most of their promises. While the NDP agreed in principle to tax cuts their main cause was the creation of a public auto insurance company. The Liberal's were the only party to criticize the tax cuts. For the most part the campaign was quiet and uneventful. Hamm received criticism.
Kejimkujik National Park - main section of the park, located in the uplands of south-central Nova Scotia, and the seaside adjunct, located nearby on the Atlantic coast. The main section of the park is a forested upland plain that contains many lakes and rivers. These interior waterways were important canoe routes between the Bay of Fundy and the Atlantic for the ancestors of the Mi'kmaq. The park also contains the petroglyphs that these people left behind. The seaside adjunct includes white sandy beaches and coastal wetland areas. The park includes habitat for the endangered Piping Plover and other coastal birds..
King's College - was originally named King's College. The University of King's College is located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada has a campus named King's College. King's University College is located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page..
Kings County - name of several counties aorund the world: Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada Kings County, California, United States of America King's County, Ireland is the former name of County Offaly. Kings County, New York, United States of America (the county coterminous with the borough of Brooklyn in New York, New York) This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page..
