Walter Francis Lunn – A Fallen Soldier of The Great War: His Story
Walter Lunn – A Fallen Soldier of the Great War – by Kevin Lunn Walter Lunn was born in Newport Station, […]
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
The Rule of The Road, 1918
THE (Berwick)REGISTER, February 13, 1918. The Rule of the Road. (Letter from Judge Savary)
To the Editor of the SPECTATOR
SIR: – I notice by your last issue that a vigorous effort is being made to secure a change in the “rule of the
road” which in these Maritime Provinces requires two carriages passing each either travelling in opposite
directions to keep to their left.
Flora MacDonald’s Winter in Windsor
This article is taken from WHHS guest speaker Rev. David Curry, March 4 2010, and is based on addresses to
Guest Posts, Hants County History
The Strange but True Story of William Alexander Smith
Born in Windsor in 1825, William Smith lived a life of travel and adventure on the West Coast that few
Halifax Explosion, December 6 1917
The Halifax Explosion From wikipedia: The Halifax Explosion was a maritime disaster in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, on the morning
Guest Posts, Hants County History
Trecothick Creek
On a small hill overlooking the stream the Acadians built the second parish church of l’Assomption in village Landry. The graveyard was located nearby. The church and graveyard are long ago forgotten. The name of the stream during the Acadian period is unknown, but its rather unique current name is a reminder of a bygone era when the province was a small British colony, opening up to immigration.
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Some Literary Figures from Windsor’s Past
This article is taken from WHHS guest speaker Rev. David Curry, January 5 2006. Some Literary Figures from Windsor’s Past
Thy Sweet Love Remember’d: A Poet & A Church
This address was given by Reverend David Curry on November 1st, 2007 to the West Hants Historical Society in Windsor,
The Saxby Gale of October 4
“…the inhabitants of the part of this town known as “Poverty Point”, near Smith’s Island [the area off Exit 6 in Windsor, past the old Visitor Centre], were woke from their slumbers at about 11 o’clock in the night by the rush of water which broke over the dykes in the immediate vicinity. Ten minutes after the dykes gave way the whole body of water found its level, covering in the low-lands for miles and miles around. About twenty houses are situated here; these were flooded nearly eight feet, which presented an appearance the morning after more like that of a street in Venice than a terra firma.