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  • Posted on January 27, 2018
  • Posted in Guest Posts, Hants County History, News |
  • Tags: dominion cotton mill, mill island, nesbitt island, nova scotia textiles, william nesbitt, woolen mill |

Mill Island, Windsor

Mill Island by Eva Mumford, Windsor, NS Prior to European settlement the area that is now called Windsor was a group of islands surrounded by marshland that was covered with salt water on the high tide. Through a system of dykes (levies), ditches, and one-way valves called arbiteaux, these marshes were eventually dyked by the

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Tags: dominion cotton mill, mill island, nesbitt island, nova scotia textiles, william nesbitt, woolen mill |
  • Posted on January 22, 2018
  • Posted in Guest Posts, Hants County History, News |
  • Tags: aboiteaux, Acadians, acadiens, dyke repair, planters |

Acadian Prisoners to the Rescue of British Soldiers

On the 3-4 November 1759, the Maritimes was struck by one of many storms that marked its history. It is comparable to the storm of 1711 and the gale of 1775 gale that killed around 2000 people. Those storms were so severe that they were epoch-marking, so much so that events are dated as “before”

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