Museum

The West Hants Historical Society collects and preserves artifacts and historical information related to Hants County, Nova Scotia. In early 1991 we acquired the old Methodist church...

Genealogy

Our library contains a large variety of resources including family histories, local newspapers, graveyard headstone inscriptions, school registrars, community histories...

Fort Edward

A national historic site since 1921, the Blockhouse is the oldest surviving structure of its kind in Canada and one of the few remaining 18th century structures in the Province...

Welcome to The West Hants Historical Society

ABOUT US

Based in Windsor, Nova Scotia, the West Hants Historical Society runs a seasonal Museum as well as a genealogy department that is open year-round. In addition, the society provides summer guide service at the Fort Edward Blockhouse.

Run almost entirely by volunteers, the WHHS relies on membership fees and donations.

WHERE WE ARE

281 King Street
PO Box 2335
Windsor, NS B0N 2T0
902-798-4706

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RECENT ARTICLES

July 6, 2017

Summer Project: Short Documentary Film

Our summer student, Fadila Chater, has been tasked with a project that will creatively incorporate the diverse cultural history of Hants County. She is looking for people to interview in a short documentary film. She is looking for individuals from different cultural or ethnic backgrounds to share their personal stories or ancestral stories from either the Mi’kmaq, Acadian, African Nova Soctian, or new immigrant communities from the Hants County area.

June 26, 2017

Call for Stories of Women involved in Halifax Explosion relief efforts

Does your family have a story? A Nova Scotian performance ensemble is seeking out information about of local women who helped in the relief efforts of the Halifax Explosion. Xara Choral Theatre Ensemble will be touring a show called The Hours Turn to Nothing to Annapolis Royal at Kings Theatre on June 10, which tells the story of nurses and midwives who came to the aid of pregnant women and many others who were hurt in the 1917 disaster. Historical documentation has revealed that women were specifically requested to support the relief effort, in part because many pregnant women within range of the blast were jolted into labour.

April 4, 2017

World War I Project – April 2017

Vimy – April 9, 1917: What Every Canadian Should Know. We have all heard the name Vimy but most Canadians know very little about it. Here are the facts that every Canadian should know. The Location: Vimy is in northern France. It is about 270 Km north of Paris near the Belgian border. It is a land of rolling hills with the peak only 145 meters high.