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28-403: The community is located on the western edge of Clementsport and immediately east of Deep Brook . It was formerly named Cornwallis after a military base was established as HMCS  Cornwallis in 1942 and becoming CFB Cornwallis in 1968 (it was mothballed from 1946 to 1949). After CFB Cornwallis closed in 1994 the property was converted to civilian use. A local development authority used

56-637: A bed and breakfast. Clementsport is situated on the Annapolis Basin, along the Moose River. It is at roughly the half-way point between Annapolis Royal and Digby, along Highway 1. The Clementsport branch of the Royal Canadian Legion offers a full supper every Friday night and provides a variety of entertainment including live music, cards, crafts and social groups. It serves as a community centre, hosting meetings of groups like

84-547: A small shipsmithing yard of his own at the foot of 26th Street, Brooklyn, which he named the Morse Iron Works. In 1890 a fire destroyed the Morse Works but he re-established it quickly thereafter. Over the next dozen or so years, Morse was forced to place his company into receivership several times but on each occasion was able to recover and continue to expand the business. By 1900 his repair yard, now known as

112-442: Is now the village of Deep Brook , the village of Cornwallis Park on the site of the former CFB Cornwallis , and Upper Clements Parks . Several homes and churches in the village date to the late 18th and early 19th century. Formerly an industrial town, Clementsport was the site of extensive wooden shipbuilding, and had an iron smelting factory and dock-works at the mouth of the Moose River. Stores and residences were built out over

140-576: The Annapolis Iron Mining Company . The plaque states: "The trip hammer on which this plaque is placed is all that remains of the Annapolis Iron Mining Company operations. The iron mine was situated three miles south of this location and ore transported in trucks drawn by horses on a railway with rails of maple wood. The extensive stone and brick buildings for smelting and iron working were situated on

168-609: The married quarters (PMQs) have been sold for private residences. 44°39′00″N 65°37′59″W  /  44.650°N 65.633°W  / 44.650; -65.633 Clementsport, Nova Scotia Clementsport is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia , located in Annapolis County . It is on the southern shore of the Annapolis Basin and is on Nova Scotia Trunk 1 . The village

196-602: The Clements Historical Society and the garden club. Some locals may be able to direct visitors to the scenic Clementsport Waterfall. Clementsport has a rug hooking studio , located in the former Community Center on Clementsport Road, and also has two antique shops. There is also a post office in Clementsport. Where Route 1 crosses the Moose River, the site of the long-gone shops of Clementsport, there are two memorials: The first commemorates

224-611: The Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company. Like many other U.S. shipyards, the Morse company made lucrative profits during World War I, estimated at more than $ 15,000,000. In 1919, the Morse Company built the world's largest floating dry dock , capable of servicing a ship 725 feet (221 m) long and weighing 30,000 tons. Morse was a presidential elector in the 1924 presidential election . In 1929, Morse masterminded

252-425: The Morse Iron Works and Dry Dock Company, was not only servicing many of the great steamships of the era, but was also maintaining the yachts of many members of New York's elite business community, including those of J. P. Morgan , Cornelius Vanderbilt III , John Jacob Astor IV and August Belmont, Jr. After a brief period in receivership due to industrial action in 1903, Morse reincorporated his yard in 1904 as

280-450: The Morse yard in the 1920s. Morse was survived by his wife Ada, his three children, Edward P. Jr., Roy and Jessie, and eight grandchildren. Apart from Edward P. Jr., all were beneficiaries of Morse's will, including Jr.'s own children. The primary beneficiary of Morse's will was his daughter Jessie, with $ 150,000 plus two fifths of the residuary estate, followed by his wife Ada with $ 80,000 and one part, Jessie's two children with one part of

308-433: The age of 72. After World War I, Morse became involved in a protracted legal dispute with his son, Edward P. Morse Jr., who had worked as a superintendent in his father's company during the war. Morse Jr. sued the company for two percent of its total wartime profits, a sum amounting to about $ 300,000, to which he claimed entitlement under an alleged condition of his employment contract. A jury found in his favor in 1920, but

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336-472: The arrival of medical assistance. He was 72 years of age. At the time of his death, Morse's fortune was estimated at $ 40,000,000, but his executors valued his estate at a relatively modest $ 1,645,953 net. Morse's 2,199 shares in his old company, Morse Dry Dock and Repair, were deemed worthless due to a pending $ 586,000 damages suit against the company by the owners of the tanker Egremont Castle , which had been improperly insured when damaged by an explosion at

364-554: The case was appealed to the Brooklyn Supreme Court. By this time Morse Jr. had become head of a rival company, the National Dry Dock and Repair Company of Staten Island . In 1921, a private detective was caught tapping phone conversations between Morse Jr. and his lawyers. Morse Jr. apparently believed the wiretap was in relation to the case against his father's company, but the private detective, who

392-769: The community. Gloria Roth , a square-dance caller and organizer of the Maritime Callers' Association , ran an annual square-dance camp at "The House of Roth" for over 30 years, starting around 1970. People traveled to Clementsport from all over North America for the summer activities. Roth was inducted into the Square Dance Foundation of New England's Hall of Fame in 2002. 44°40′1.44″N 65°36′38.5″W  /  44.6670667°N 65.610694°W  / 44.6670667; -65.610694  ( Clementsport, Nova Scotia ) Edward P. Morse Edward Phinley Morse (7 March 1859 —26 August 1930)

420-493: The eastern side of the mouth of this river. Operations started in 1825 and terminated in 1862." Clementsport is the birthplace of Edward P. Morse , the industrialist and proprietor of the Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company of New York. Famous actress Theda Bara visited her parents regularly in this community. Country legend Wilf Carter spent his summers, as a youth, in Clementsport, visiting relatives who lived in

448-479: The exploits of fourteen Clementsport sea captains from the Rawding family . The plaque on the memorial lists the captains' names and dates (between 1771 and 1964), and adds: "These sea captains, all resident in this locality and members of the one family, roamed the seven seas for 150 years and had under their command some of the largest vessels then existing." The second cairn, topped by a huge hammer, commemorates

476-564: The government and private clients during the war by $ 5,403,520, and since Morse Jr. had been a partner of the firm at the time, his award from the May 1935 case was consequently struck down. Edward P. Morse married Ada Martha Gavel on November 8, 1878, shortly before leaving his hometown of Clementsport, Nova Scotia, to begin his Brooklyn career. The marriage produced three children: Jessie Elizabeth (1879–unknown), Edward Phinley Jr. (1882–1948) and Roy Bertram (1886–1953). Both sons followed Morse into

504-419: The merger of six New York ship repair yards, including his own, into a new $ 20,000,000 entity named United Dry Docks, Inc. – the largest company of its type in the world. Morse was named president of the new company before being appointed chairman of the board. After only a short time in this role however, Morse retired from active business and returned to his native Nova Scotia, where he died a few months later at

532-444: The name Cornwallis Park and this name was formally adopted for the community in 2000. In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Cornwallis Park had a population of 488 living in 238 of its 258 total private dwellings, a change of 1.9% from its 2016 population of 479. With a land area of 2.14 km (0.83 sq mi), it had a population density of 228.0/km (590.6/sq mi) in 2021. Cornwallis Park

560-525: The residuary estate each, and Morse's son Roy with $ 60,000. In addition to his wife and descendants, Morse's sister Mary and a former employee named Kirsten Jensen received $ 5,000 each. Morse also gave $ 500 to St. Clement's Episcopal Church in his native town. After Morse's death, his Brooklyn ship repair yard remained in business another 33 years, first as part of the United Dry Docks/ United Shipyards group, and later under

588-425: The river on wooden pilings and stilts, similar to the still-existing structures in the nearby village of Bear River . The decline of wooden shipbuilding led to the decline of the town, and none of the structures that were built over the river remain. More recent economic decline in the region has led to the closure of several local businesses, including a gas station, convenience stores, a pizzeria, art galleries, and

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616-443: The shipbuilding industry, Edward P. Jr. as head of a rival ship repair company, and Roy B. as head of a ship parts supply company. Morse was a longtime resident of 47 Plaza Street, Brooklyn, but he also owned a 20-acre (81,000 m ) estate on Long Island then known as "Grey Gables", known today as Villa Maria . According to a granddaughter, Morse was a non-smoker and teetotaller who was not overly fond of social occasions. He

644-575: The world. At one time, Morse's fortune was estimated to be $ 40 million, but after his death in 1930, his taxable estate was appraised at a relatively modest $ 1.646 million ($ 22.5 million in 2015 dollars). Morse was born in Clementsport , Nova Scotia , British North American , in 1859. At the age of 20, he arrived in Brooklyn, New York , US, seeking work, which he eventually obtained in a shipsmithing yard. About five years later in 1885, he opened

672-401: Was a Canadian - American industrialist and proprietor of the Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company , a major turn of the 20th century ship repair facility located in Brooklyn, New York . He later assisted in the creation of United Dry Docks, Inc., a corporation formed by the merger of six New York-based ship repair companies including his own, and at the time the largest corporation of its type in

700-675: Was established originally as Clements Township by United Empire Loyalists from Long Island, NY, who came to the region at the end of the American Revolution, c. 1785. Its original boundaries extended southwest to the Bear River, south to what was originally called the Hessian Line and is now the Clementsvale Road, and northeast as far as Allain's Creek at the edge of Annapolis Royal . This area included what

728-610: Was home to the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre 's main administrative office, located in the former base commanders residence. A significant portion of the former military base's facilities (particularly housing, hospitality, meeting rooms and assembly halls) have been taken over by the Annapolis Basin Conference Centre . Cornwallis Park hosts over 1000 Royal Canadian Sea Cadets annually for training through CSTC HMCS Acadia . Many of

756-428: Was however an enthusiastic horseman, maintaining his own stable, and at one time owned Theodore Roosevelt 's favorite saddle-horse, General Ruxton. After his retirement, Morse returned to his native Nova Scotia where he began building a $ 250,000 mansion at Deep Brook, not far from his Clementsport birthplace. On August 26, 1930, while overseeing construction of the building, Morse suffered a heart attack and died before

784-405: Was later convicted of wiretapping, maintained ignorance of his client's identity. Morse Jr. was eventually disinherited by his father. In May 1935, Morse Jr.'s case against his father's company was finally concluded when the Brooklyn Supreme Court ruled that the company owed him the sum of $ 540,283. Eighteen months later however, the Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company admitted to having overcharged

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