PREFACE
This book tells of one of the most interesting early communities in Nova Scotia. The book is for the student, the casual traveler and the patriot. The scholar wanting to be hip deep in quaint spellings, tangles of subordinate clauses, and mounds of footnotes, will have to look elsewhere.
Some of the principal sources, offering supplementary reading, are listed at the end of the text. They represent only a partial bibliography. They do not include the many primary and documentary sources.
Nothing much of compiling history has been done in isolation since Gibbon’s Decline and Fall two centuries ago. Thus, it is with pleasure that I acknowledge the informed and generous assistance of my late friends Phyllis Blakeley and Charles Bruce Fergusson of the Public Archives of Nova Scotia, and others at that institution; the late Fred Blenkhorn, registrar of deeds in Windsor, and others of that staff; the late William E. Graham, M. M.; Roland
Author: L.S. Loomer
Published by West Hants Historical Society (1996)
Paperback; 400 pages; 56 pages of illustrations
