Welcome to the West Hants Historical Society! Based in Windsor, Nova Scotia, our Museum collects and preserves artifacts and historical information about Hants County. Our Genealogy Library houses a large variety of resources including family histories, school registers, graveyard inscriptions, and more. We are also proud to manage the national historic site of Fort Edward, the oldest surviving wooden blockhouse in Canada. Please join us!
Based in Windsor, Nova Scotia, the WHHS runs a seasonal Museum as well as a Genealogy Library that is open year-round. In addition, we provide summer guide service at the Fort Edward Blockhouse. Run almost entirely by volunteers, the WHHS relies on membership fees and donations.
The West Hants Historical Society collects and preserves artifacts and historical information about Hants County, Nova Scotia. Located in the old Methodist church in Windsor, we invite you to browse our archives and visit us!
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Our Genealogy Library houses a large variety of resources, including family histories, local newspapers, graveyard headstone inscriptions, school registers, community histories, and far more.
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A national historic site since 1921, the Fort Edward Blockhouse is the oldest surviving structure of its kind in Canada, and one of the few remaining 18th century structures in Nova Scotia.
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Great Fire of Windsor, 1897. View of how far the fire went towards Ferry Hill.[/caption]
On October 17, 1897, disaster struck the town of Windsor, Nova Scotia. At three a.m. that Sunday morning, a fire started that would destroy most the town and leave most of its residents homeless 
Thomas C. Haliburton was the creator of Sam Slick, who appears in much of Haliburton's work and is responsible for many common English sayings today.[/caption]
Thomas Chandler Haliburton was born in Windsor, Nova Scotia on December 17, 1796. He was the son of a known political figure named William Haliburton. His mother died as Thomas was 
