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39-462: Family Brown was founded in 1967 by frontman Joe "Papa" Brown, who was born August 30, 1925, in Amherst, Nova Scotia . Brown was a local musician who had played in two local bands before founding Family Brown, taking the role of lead singer and bass guitarist . His son, Barry Brown, and daughters Lawanda and Tracey, were also members of the band. Barry served as vocalist, songwriter and guitarist, while

78-412: A period of tremendous industry growth. Local contractors employed local craftsmen, who used local materials. Notice the emphasis on sandstone and brick, both locally produced and delightful detail which reflects the skilled craftsmanship prevalent in the 19th century. Amherst's prosperity would not last as the failed economic policies of the federal and provincial governments, coupled with World War I, saw

117-561: A small portion touching the U.S. state of Maine . It is an arm of the Gulf of Maine . Its tidal range is the highest in the world. The name is probably a corruption of the French word fendu , meaning 'split'. The tidal range in the Bay of Fundy is about 16 metres (52 ft); the average tidal range worldwide is only one metre (3.3 ft). Some tides are higher than others, depending on

156-486: The 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Amherst had a population of 9,404 living in 4,480 of its 4,799 total private dwellings, a change of -0.1% from its 2016 population of 9,413 . With a land area of 12.07 km (4.66 sq mi), it had a population density of 779.1/km (2,017.9/sq mi) in 2021. In the period between 1996 and 2006, Amherst lost over half of its Black population. The African Nova Scotian community has lived in

195-596: The American Revolution and the War of 1812 . In the 19th century, the bay was the site of much shipping, and shipbuilders flourished, including James Moran of St. Martins, New Brunswick , Joseph Salter , of Moncton , and William D. Lawrence of Maitland, Nova Scotia . Fundy ports produced the fastest ship in the world, Marco Polo ; the largest wooden ship ever built in Canada, William D. Lawrence ; and

234-876: The Minas Basin and the Tantramar Marshes , sending ocean waters surging far inland. The largest population centre on the bay is Saint John, New Brunswick , a major port and the first incorporated city in what is now Canada. Other settlements include, in New Brunswick, St. Andrews , Blacks Harbour , Grand Manan , Campobello , Fundy-St. Martins , Alma , Riverside-Albert , Hopewell Cape , and Sackville , and in Nova Scotia, Amherst , Advocate Harbour , Parrsboro , Truro , Maitland , Cheverie , Windsor , Wolfville , Canning , Annapolis Royal , and Digby . The port of Saint John gives access to

273-689: The Northumberland Strait . The town sits on a height of land at the eastern boundary of the Isthmus of Chignecto and Tantramar Marshes , 3 km (1.9 mi) east of the interprovincial border with New Brunswick and 65 km (40 mi) southeast of the city of Moncton . It is 60 km (37 mi) southwest of the New Brunswick abutment of the Confederation Bridge to Prince Edward Island at Cape Jourimain . According to Dr. Graham P. Hennessey, "The Micmac name

312-462: The Winnipeg general strike . The eventual closure of companies such as Robb Engineering & Manufacturing (purchased by Canada Car and Foundry and then closed) and Amherst Pianos, among others led to a resignation of lost dreams as the town was overtaken by other newer manufacturing centres in central Canada during the 20th century. Amherst had a modest-sized industrial park constructed during

351-493: The columnar jointing which can be seen on Brier and Grand Manan islands, among other places around the bay. These flows often are the sites of rarer mineral deposits including agate , amethyst , and stilbite , the latter being the provincial mineral of Nova Scotia. These rifts filled with sediment which became sedimentary rock . Many fossils have been found along the Fundy shoreline. The oldest dinosaur fossil in Canada

390-658: The harbour porpoise . The Bay of Fundy mudflats are a rare and unique intertidal habitat. Major mudflats are found on around the Maringouin Peninsula which lies between Shepody Bay and the Cumberland Basin and at the northern end of Chignecto Bay . On the Nova Scotia side, mudflats are found on the southern side of the Minas Basin and in Cobequid Bay . In the Minas Basin, the size of

429-702: The 1960s when the Trans-Canada Highway was being developed. Today the majority of the town's major employers are located there, including Emmerson Packaging and IMP Aerospace . During the Second World War , the Royal Canadian Navy named a Flower-class corvette HMCS  Amherst . In 2002, the Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre opened on the outskirts of the town, replacing

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468-402: The Bay of Fundy and lived in communities around the bay for centuries before the first Europeans arrived. According to Miꞌkmaq legend, the tide was created when Glooscap wanted to take a bath. The first European to visit the bay may have been Portuguese explorer João Álvares Fagundes in about 1520, although the bay does not appear on Portuguese maps until 1558. The first European settlement

507-564: The Bay of Fundy have a tidal bore , a wave front of the incoming tide that "bores" its way up a river against its normal flow. Notable tidal bores include those on the Petitcodiac , Maccan , St. Croix , and Kennetcook rivers. Before the construction of a causeway in 1968 and subsequent siltation of the river, the Petitcodiac River had one of the world's largest tidal bores, up to two metres (6.6 ft) high. Since

546-636: The Centennial Cup in 1993 and the Fred Page Cup in 2019. Every August, Amherst hosts an eight-team little league baseball tournament, featuring four teams from New England . Amherst experiences a humid continental climate (Dfb). The highest temperature ever recorded was 34.4 °C (94 °F) on 18 August 1935. The coldest temperature ever recorded was −37.2 °C (−35 °F) on 18 February 1922. In 2020, Amherst (Nappan) only recorded 800.4 mm (31.51 in) of precipitation. In

585-613: The Maritime Hockey League. All home games are played out of the 2,500 seat Amherst Stadium. The season usually runs from mid-September to early March every year. The Ramblers draw some of the largest crowds in the Maritime Hockey League, and have placed third in average attendance over the past few years. They won the Atlantic Championship in 1989 advancing to the Centennial Cup tournament in BC. They also hosted

624-517: The affair. Amherst experienced unprecedented industrialization in the late 1870s after the Intercolonial Railway of Canada constructed its main line from Halifax to Quebec through the town in 1872. The location of the railway line away from the Bay of Fundy coast further consolidated the town at its present location as industry and commercial activity centred around this important transportation link. The economic boom created by

663-493: The area since 1783, largely settled around the south end of the town in an area called Sand Hill . Amherst is served locally by EastLink TV . The station also serves the communities of Springhill , Oxford , and others in the county, as well as Sackville, New Brunswick . Bay of Fundy The Bay of Fundy ( French : Baie de Fundy ) is a bay between the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia , with

702-552: The arrival of the Intercolonial Railway lasted through World War I and numerous foundries, factories and mills opened, giving rise to the nickname "Busy Amherst". In 1908, the manufacturing output of Amherst's industries was not exceeded by any centre in the Maritime Provinces . Many of the fine old buildings along Victoria Street are considered industrial artifacts because they were constructed during

741-576: The band and served as a record producer for their final two RCA albums. The band broke up after their final performance in September 1990. In 1997, Family Brown was inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame . Tracey charted a duet with Terry Carisse in 1990, later founding the group Prescott Brown & Lonesome Daddy (later Prescott-Brown ) along with Randall Prescott and Barry Brown. The trio charted nine singles in

780-536: The bay, which is twice as much as the combined total flow of all the rivers of the world over the same period. The Annapolis Royal Generating Station , a 20  MW tidal power station on the Annapolis River upstream of Annapolis Royal , was, until its shutdown in 2019, one of the few tidal generating stations in the world, and the only one in North America. Most of the rivers that drain into

819-624: The country charts in the United States, including the No. 30 "But It's Cheating." They also received 3 Juno's one in 1985 for Country Group of the Year, as well as seventeen RPM Big Country Awards and eighteen Canadian Country Music Association awards, the most ever received by one act. In 1979 the band added steel guitarist/fiddle player Gary (Spike) Spicer. After Joe Brown died in 1986, and at this time Tracey's husband Randall Prescott joined

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858-407: The daughters sang backing vocals. Rounding out the membership were lead guitarist Dave Dennison and drummer Ron Sparling, who was also the manager. Family Brown began performing in local venues and by 1970 had moved to nationwide tours of Canada. Signed to MCA Records in 1971, the band released the single "R. R. No. 2" that year, from their self-titled album on MCA Records . By 1972, the band

897-566: The early Jurassic , when all land on earth was part of a supercontinent called Pangaea . At that time what is now the Maritimes was situated near the equator and had a warm tropical climate and lush vegetation. As continental drift reshaped the world, rift valleys formed, including the Cobequid – Chedabucto fault system. During the continental breakup, magma erupted as basaltic lavas and left igneous rock formations such as

936-468: The early 1990s and won another Juno Award. After its disbanding, Tracey charted two more singles of her own. Family Brown received the following awards: Amherst, Nova Scotia Amherst ( / ˈ æ m ɜːr s t / AM -urst ) is a town in northwestern Nova Scotia , Canada, located at the northeast end of the Cumberland Basin , an arm of the Bay of Fundy , and 22 km (14 mi) south of

975-554: The ecosystem of the bay. A result of shipping traffic has been the potential for increased collisions between ships and the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale . In 2003, the Canadian Coast Guard adjusted shipping lanes crossing prime whale feeding areas at the entrance to the Bay of Fundy to lessen the risk of collision. Many other marine mammals are found in the bay including fin whales , humpback whales , minke whales , Atlantic white-sided dolphin and

1014-482: The farming hamlet of East Amherst . Many notable residents have lived in this district, including Sir Charles Tupper and Senator Thomas R. Black . Amherst gained brief notoriety in the late 19th century as the location of alleged poltergeist phenomena afflicting Amherst resident Esther Cox in 1878 and 1879, which became known as the Great Amherst Mystery after the publication of a popular book on

1053-593: The first female sea captain in the western world, Molly Kool . The mystery ship Mary Celeste was also built there. The highest water level ever recorded, 21.6 metres (71 feet), occurred in October 1869. It caused extensive destruction to ports and communities, much of which was attributed to a two-metre storm surge created by the Saxby Gale , a tropical cyclone , which coincided with a perigean spring tide . Waves breached dykes protecting low-lying farmland in

1092-523: The first permanent British settlement in Jamestown, Virginia . About 75 years later, Acadians spread out along the bay, founding Grand-Pré , Beaubassin , Cobequid , and Pisiguit . There was much military action and many attacks on the settlements around the bay, first as the French and British fought for control of the area, leading to the expulsion of the Acadians , and later by Americans during

1131-400: The mudflats from low to high water marks is as much as 4 km (2.5 mi). Due to tidal turbulence, the water in these area contains very high amounts of fine sediment, source from tidal erosion of Carboniferous and Triassic sedimentary rock. Primary producers include hollow green weed , phytoplankton , algae , and sea lettuce . Protected areas include: The Miꞌkmaq fished in

1170-636: The older Highland View Regional Hospital on Pleasant Street. The town is currently served by Via Rail 's Halifax-to-Montreal train Ocean . Basketball was introduced to Nova Scotia at the YMCA in Amherest in 1894, by J. Howard Crocker who learned the game as a student of James Naismith , the inventor of basketball. Amherst is home of the Amherst Ramblers , a Junior A Hockey League team from

1209-626: The opening of the causeway gates in 2010, the bore has been coming back, and in 2013 surfers rode it a record-breaking 29 kilometres (18 mi). Other tidal phenomena include the Reversing Falls near the mouth of the St. John River , a rip tide at Cape Enrage , and the Old Sow whirlpool at Passamaquoddy Bay . The story of the Fundy Basin begins about 200 million years ago in

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1248-452: The position of the moon, the sun, and atmospheric conditions. Tides are semidiurnal , meaning they have two highs and two lows each day, with about 6 hours and 13 minutes between each high and low tide. Because of tidal resonance in the funnel-shaped bay, the tides that flow through the channel are very powerful. In one half-day tidal cycle, about 100 billion tonnes (110 billion short tons ) of water flow in and out of

1287-600: The residents moved there to be closer to work. During the 19th century, Amherst became an important regional centre for shipbuilding and other services to outlying communities. An indication of the town's importance in Canadian history is seen with its four Fathers of Confederation : Edward B. Chandler , Robert B. Dickey , Jonathan McCully , and Sir Charles Tupper . During the late 19th century, local industrialists and entrepreneurs constructed many fine Victorian and Edwardian homes along Victoria Street East, leading toward

1326-664: The town's industrial economy begin a slow decline during the 1910s. The Amherst Internment Camp for prisoners of war and enemy aliens was set up at Malleable Iron Foundry in Amherst from April 1915 to September 1919, and Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky was incarcerated there for one month after he was arrested in Halifax , Nova Scotia in April 1917. During the Amherst general strike in 1919, worker unrest over social and economic conditions led to mass protests in sympathy with

1365-590: Was Nemcheboogwek meaning 'going up rising ground', in reference to the higher land to the east of the Tantramar Marshes. The Acadians who settled here as early as 1672 called the village Les Planches . The village was later renamed Amherst by Colonel Joseph Morse in honour of Lord Amherst , the commander-in-chief of the British Army in North America during the Seven Years' War ." The town

1404-600: Was French, founded at Saint Croix Island in Maine, and then Port Royal , founded by Pierre Dugua and Samuel de Champlain in 1605. Champlain named it Labaye Francoise (The French Bay). Champlain describes finding an old rotted cross in the bay which may have been left by the Portuguese. The village was the first permanent European settlement north of the Spanish St. Augustine, Florida , and predated by two years

1443-475: Was first settled in 1764 by immigrants from Yorkshire following the expulsion of the Acadians , with the original settlement being located 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) southwest of the present town on the shore of the Bay of Fundy . These settlers were joined by United Empire Loyalists ( Loyalists who fled the American colonies during the American Revolution ). A mill was built on the current townsite, and

1482-601: Was found at Burntcoat Head . Very early reptiles have been discovered in Carboniferous tree trunks at Joggins . Wasson Bluff has a rich trove of Jurassic fossils. The bay is a member of the Global Geoparks Network , a UNESCO initiative to promote and conserve the planet's geological heritage. Although some land areas are protected, there is no formal marine protection zone in the bay. The Conservation Council of New Brunswick works to protect

1521-541: Was the subject of a national TV show, Call It Country (later Country Way , then Family Brown Country ), which taped at CJOH-TV in Ottawa, Ontario . Throughout the 1970s and into the 1980s, the band recorded for RCA Records , recording nine studio albums and two greatest hits albums in that timespan and charting forty-three singles on the RPM Country Tracks charts. Several of their singles also charted on

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