HISTORY OF BRAMBER
According to Place Names and Places of Nova Scotia, published by the Public
Archives of Nova Scotia, 1967, Bramber was part of a 3000 acre grant of land
received by Roger Johnson on October 27, 1783. · At that time the land was known
as Vil Cheverie or Chevery Bay. When the lands along the Hants Shore were granted
to disbanded soldiers, the territory became known as Man O’War’s Land. Brookville
became the land from the causeway in Cheverie to the Bass Creek Bridge. At one
time it was known as Selwood. When mail was sent to the wrong Brookville, the Post
Office was named Bramber and eventually the village of Bramber evolved as separate
from Cheverie or Brookville.
The Baptist Meeting House was constructed in 1863 and burned down in 1874.
Later a new church was built. The United Church in Bramber was dedicated in 1892.
It was closed in the 1970’s and sold for a garage. Brookville school was built in 1867.
This was closed when consolidation took place in 1966.
Author: Alice Galley
Published and bound by West Hants Historical Society.
9 pages.
