54-622: Hants County is a historical county and census division of Nova Scotia , Canada. Local government is provided by the West Hants Regional Municipality , and the Municipality of the District of East Hants . The county of Hants was established June 17, 1781, on territory taken from Kings County and consisted of the townships of Windsor, Falmouth and Newport. The name Hants is a long-standing abbreviation for
108-414: A census division corresponds to a single unit of the appropriate type listed above. However, in a few cases, Statistics Canada groups two or more units into a single statistical division: In almost all such cases, the division in question was formerly a single unit of the standard type, which was divided into multiple units by its province after the 2001 Canadian census . A census consolidated subdivision
162-748: A church and dykes. The British built Fort Vieux Logis in the area during Father Le Loutre's War , which was attacked by the Acadians and Mi'kmaq in the Siege of Grand-Pré . The siege lasted for a week and the 300 natives took prisoners who remained in captivity for almost two years. Eventually the Mi'kmaq retreated. During the French and Indian War (the North American theatre of the Seven Years' War ),
216-424: A former census subdivision, a former urban area, or a former designated place. It may also refer to neighbourhoods, post offices, communities and unincorporated places among other entities. Statistics Canada also aggregates data by federal electoral districts , one purpose for which is the redrawing of district boundaries every ten years. Federal electoral districts are numerically indexed; each district receives
270-495: A population between 400 and 700 people. A "census metropolitan area" (CMA) is a grouping of census subdivisions comprising a large urban area (the "urban core") and those surrounding "urban fringes" with which it is closely integrated. To become a CMA, an area must register an urban core population of at least 100,000 at the previous census. CMA status is retained even if this core population later drops below 100,000. CMAs may cross census division and provincial boundaries, although
324-418: A population density of 14.8/km (38.3/sq mi) in 2021. Highways and numbered routes that run through the county, including external routes that start or finish at the county limits: Census divisions of Canada The census geographic units of Canada are the census subdivisions defined and used by Canada's federal government statistics bureau Statistics Canada to conduct
378-408: A rectilinear street grid was laid between Grand-Pré and Horton Landing to the east, but the local farming population preferred to settle along the upland ridge in a spread out fashion, much like the previous residents of the area, the Acadians, had done. Several schools and congregations were formed at Grand-Pré including a meeting house converted into a church in the early 19th century, today known as
432-526: A road from Cobequid to Tatamagouche for the supply of Fort Beauséjour , Louisbourg , and settlements on Île St. Jean ( Prince Edward Island ). Other exports went by sea from Minas Basin to Isthmus of Chignecto or to the mouth of the Saint John River , carried in Acadian vessels by Acadian middlemen. The Acadians from Grand-Pré also offered their labour to those at Isthmus of Chignecto to build
486-477: A single CSA were such an approach utilized. Statistics Canada has described the Greater Golden Horseshoe as the country's largest urban area . A "census agglomeration" (CA) is a smaller version of a CMA in which the urban core population at the previous census was greater than 10,000 but less than 100,000. If the population of an urban core is less than 50,000, it is the starting point for
540-555: A unique five-digit code, with the first two digits being the Standard Geographical Classification code for the province or territory in which the district is located. Grand-Pr%C3%A9, Nova Scotia Grand-Pré ( French: [ɡʁɑ̃pʁe] ) is a Canadian rural community in Kings County , Nova Scotia . Its French name translates to "Great/Large Meadow" and the community lies at
594-400: Is 44.5, compared to 41.8 for the province. 84.8% of the population is older than 15 years, which is in the provincial average. With regard to language, 96.6% of the inhabitants are English-speaking, 1.4% are francophone and 2.0% are allophones . The francophone population is anglicized as 99.3% of the population speak English at home. With respect to knowledge of official languages, 7.2% of
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#1732773016345648-697: Is a geographic unit between census division and census subdivision. It is a combination of adjacent census subdivisions typically consisting of larger, more rural census subdivisions and smaller, more densely populated census subdivisions. Census subdivisions generally correspond to the municipalities of Canada, as determined by provincial and territorial legislation. They can also correspond to area which are deemed to be equivalents to municipalities for statistical reporting purposes, such as Indian reserves , Indian settlements , and unorganized territories where municipal level government may not exist. Statistics Canada has created census subdivisions in cooperation with
702-412: Is also a fine vantage point for watching the ebb and flow of the world's highest tides. Grand-Pré has no official status; there are only specific data for subdivision D of Kings County, which includes the area between Hantsport and Wolfville , where Grand-Pré and a few other villages exist. In this area, there were 5499 inhabitants in 2006, compared to 5167 in 2001, an increase of 6.4%. The average age
756-606: Is located in Milford, East Hants and currently produces approximately 8,000 tons of gypsum daily. George Elliot Clarke's poem, "West Hants County", tells of the difficult condition of black workers in the gypsum mines. Barite was also an extremely important ore to Hants County. The largest barite mine in the world was in Walton and that; combined with the gypsum and lumbering, made Walton the second busiest port in Nova Scotia in
810-589: Is the oldest community in Hants County. There is a significant monument in the middle of the reserve to Major Jean-Baptiste Cope , the signatory to the peace Treaty of 1752 with the British, which was recently upheld by the Supreme Court of Canada (1985). The first Acadians to settle in present-day Hants County (known as Pisiguit ) established farms at (present day Falmouth ) in the early 1680s, as
864-413: Is the oldest existing Presbyterian church in Nova Scotia. One of Nova Scotia's best known wineries, Domaine de Grand-Pré, is located in the community. Grand-Pré is also Canada's first designated Historic Rural District. The Just Us! coffee company headquarters is located in the village and is something of a tourist attraction. Evangeline Beach is a famous stopover for thousands of migrating shore birds and
918-421: Is usually a small community that does not meet the criteria used to define incorporated municipalities or urban areas (areas with a population of at least 1,000 and no fewer than 400 persons per square kilometre), but for which Statistics Canada or a provincial government has requested that similar demographic data be compiled. A " locality " (LOC) is a historical named location or place. The named location may be
972-564: The William D. Lawrence , the largest wooden ship ever built in Canada, and Ezra Churchill 's in Hantsport. The Honourable Joseph Howe was the first member of parliament for Hants County (1867). He campaigned in the county with an agenda to punish those politicians who have forced Nova Scotia to participate in the formation, and become a part of Canada without a mandate or referendum from
1026-668: The American Revolution , Fort Edward played a pivotal role defending Halifax from a possible land attack and serving as the headquarters in Atlantic Canada for 84th Regiment of Foot (Royal Highland Emigrants) . After the American Revolution, the Rawdon Township and Douglas Township were created for American Loyalists (1784). The Douglas Township ( Kennetcook and area) was settled by
1080-614: The Covenanter Church . Over time, merchants and shop owners congregated at nearby Wolfville to the west, leaving Grand-Pré to continue as a farming community. One of the Planter descendants was Sir Robert Borden , the eighth Prime Minister of Canada , who was born in Grand-Pré in 1854. Grand-Pré continued as a rich and productive but small farming community. The Windsor and Annapolis Railway arrived in 1869, at first serving
1134-601: The Ottawa - Gatineau metropolitan area in Ontario and Quebec is the only one that currently crosses a provincial border. The methodology used by Statistics Canada does not allow for CMA-CMA mergers into larger statistical areas; consequently, there is no Canadian equivalent to the combined statistical areas of the United States. Statistics Canada has stated that Toronto , Oshawa and Hamilton could be merged into
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#17327730163451188-527: The indigenous peoples who lived on these lands for centuries. In the course of their historical relationship with the Acadians , many Miꞌkmaq became Catholic and therefore played an active role in the Acadian resistance to the Protestant British annexation of Hants County. They were clearly supporters of Abbe LeLoutre's work in protecting Acadian and Miꞌkmaq and ultimately Catholic interests in
1242-456: The 1686 census shows a number of families on well established farms utilizing dyked pastures. More Acadian villages soon followed spreading along the shores of the Piziquid and St. Croix rivers. One of these was at present day Windsor . With an expanding population the region by 1722 was split into two parishes (see Pisiquit ). The l'Assomption parish church was situated on a hill overlooking
1296-441: The 1950s. The mine produced in total 4.5 million tonnes of barite, between 1941 and 1978. Silver, lead, zinc and copper were also found in the same mine and over 360,000 tonnes were mined. It is estimated that there are still about 1 million tonnes of barite left in the deposit. Gold was mined at Renfrew , near Nine Mile River , The village was the home of one of the largest gold mines in the province. There were other gold mines in
1350-422: The 2011 census, urban area was renamed "population centre". In 2011, Statistics Canada identified 942 population centres in Canada. Some population centres cross municipal boundaries and not all municipalities contain a population centre while others have more than one. The population centre level of geography is further divided into the following three groupings based on population: A "designated place" (DPL)
1404-458: The 84th Regiment of Foot. The Rawdon Township was settled by loyalists from South Carolina whose lives had been saved in the Siege of Ninety-Six by Lord Rawdon and the 84th Regiment of Foot. Windsor developed its gypsum deposits, usually selling it to American markets at Passamaquoddy Bay . Often this trade was illegal. In 1820 an effort to stop this smuggling trade resulted in the "Plaster War", in which local smugglers resoundingly defeated
1458-460: The Acadians from Hants County began at exactly the same time as it happened at Grand-Pré , with the Acadian men being imprisoned within the walls of Fort Edward. Fort Edward was one of four British forts in Acadia to imprison Acadians throughout the nine years of the expulsion. After the Acadians were removed from the area of present-day Hants County, New England Planters began to arrive and settle
1512-530: The Acadians were expelled from Grand-Pré during the Bay of Fundy Campaign (1755) . There were various British soldiers who kept a journal of the deportation from Grand-Pré such as Lt. Col. John Winslow and Jeremiah Bancroft . The site of Grand-Pré during the expulsion was later immortalized by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow with his epic poem Evangeline . Acadians from Grand Pré were dispersed in many locations and some eventually returned to other parts of
1566-755: The Canadian Maritimes such as Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and New Brunswick. Many Acadians expelled from the Grand-Pré area eventually settled in the New England States and travelling overland to South Louisiana in the United States after being dropped on the Atlantic coast. In Louisiana, the term Cajun evolved from the name Acadian. After the deportation of the Acadians, the vacant lands were resettled by New England Planters in 1760 and renamed Horton Township. A large town plot with
1620-662: The English county of Hampshire , from the Old English name Hantescire . In 1861, Hants County was divided for court sessional purposes into two districts named East Hants and West Hants. In 1879, the two districts were incorporated as district municipalities . In 2020, the Town of Windsor amalgamated with the District of West Hants to become the West Hants Regional Municipality. The Miꞌkmaq are
1674-621: The French retreated. During Father Le Loutre's War , the Acadians at Grand-Pré played a significant role in supporting the Acadian Exodus out of mainland Nova Scotia, which started in 1749. Grand-Pré willingly responded to the call from Le Loutre for basic food stuffs. The bread basket of the region, they raised wheat and other grains, produced flour in no fewer than eleven mills, and sustained herds of several thousand head of cattle, sheep and hogs. Regular cattle droves made their way over
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1728-527: The Mi'kmaq and Acadians time to position themselves to fiercely defend the village. They were eventually overwhelmed and Church burned the village and the fields. During King George's War , a French force led by Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Roch de Ramezay defeated a larger British force in a night raid at the Battle of Grand-Pré . This battle was the most significant and bloodiest victory for the French in Acadia. The village, however, remained in British control once
1782-540: The Noel shore (see Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon ). Along with the great literary figure in Nova Scotia's history, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Hants produced Alden Nowlan , George Elliott Clarke and others. The celebrated folk artist Sidney Kelsie who later made his career in Edmonton, Alberta was born in Hants County in 1928. Folk singer Stan Rogers made the community of Rawdon famous by writing
1836-424: The community of Rawdon Gold Mines . There is currently oil exploration in and around Kennetcook . As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Hants County had a population of 45,140 living in 18,862 of its 20,306 total private dwellings, a change of 6.1% from its 2016 population of 42,558 . With a land area of 3,049.18 km (1,177.29 sq mi), it had
1890-647: The community with a small rural station. Livestock and marsh hay became major exports, joined in the late 19th century by the Annapolis Valley's major apple exporting industry. Four large apple warehouses were built around the station to pack and ship apples. In the 1920s when the Dominion Atlantic Railway developed the Grand-Pré Memorial Park to attract tourists. While agriculture remained Grand-Pré's major industry,
1944-569: The confluence of the Pisiquit and Saint Croix rivers where in 1750 it was pulled down by the Acadians under orders from the British to make way for Fort Edward . By the early 1700s Acadians migrated all along the shore of Hants County to the Shubenacadie River . One of the most prominent Acadians from this area was Noël Doiron who is the namesake of the community of Noel . With the founding of both Halifax (1749) and Fort Edward, there
1998-429: The construction of a 'census agglomeration'. CMAs and CAs with a population greater than 50,000 are subdivided into census tracts which have populations ranging from 2,500 to 8,000. A population centre (PC), formerly known as an urban area (UA), is any grouping of contiguous dissemination areas that has a minimum population of 1,000 and an average population density of 400 persons per square kilometre or greater. For
2052-519: The country's quinquennial census . These areas exist solely for the purposes of statistical analysis and presentation; they have no government of their own. They exist on four levels: the top-level (first-level) divisions are Canada's provinces and territories ; these are divided into second-level census divisions , which in turn are divided into third-level census subdivisions (often corresponding to municipalities ) and fourth-level dissemination areas . In some provinces, census divisions correspond to
2106-746: The eastern edge of the Annapolis Valley several kilometres east of the town of Wolfville on a peninsula jutting into the Minas Basin surrounded by extensive dyked farm fields, framed by the Gaspereau and Cornwallis Rivers . The community was made famous by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 's poem Evangeline and is today home to the Grand-Pré National Historic Site . On June 30, 2012, the Landscape of Grand-Pré
2160-561: The efforts of New Brunswick officials to bring the trade under their control. Productive timber lands and tidal building sites made Hants County an important shipbuilding centre in the 19th century. Loyalist merchant Abraham Cunard was an early shipbuilder in the county. Cunard's efforts were surpassed by much larger yards by the mid 19th century, including the William Dawson Lawrence shipyard in Maitland which built
2214-558: The entrance to the Basin. By the mid-1680s the population was sufficient to support a church and the parish of Saint-Charles des Mines was formed. During Queen Anne's War , New Englander Ranger Benjamin Church , burned the village and broke some of the dykes in the Raid on Grand Pré . In this raid, Church and his rangers got stuck on the mud flats of Baie Francais (Bay of Fundy), which gave
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2268-497: The park made the community a tourism destination as well as a memorial to the Acadian people. The Park eventually became a National Historic Site and in 1957 was purchased by the Canadian Park Service . Today, Grand-Pré is the home the Grand-Pré National Historic Site which is now a national park administered by Parks Canada to commemorate the Acadian people and their deportation. The Covenanter Church at Grand-Pré
2322-494: The people to see if they wanted him to continue to support Nova Scotia's entry into Canada. What ensued was one of the most expensive political campaigns in Nova Scotia's history. The whole country watched to see if Howe would be returned to Ottawa to lead Nova Scotia into Confederation on the best terms possible. Howe toured the whole county and eventually won, which eventually led to all of Nova Scotia accepting Canada. Hants County produced two Olympians, both of whom came from along
2376-542: The people. Over the next two years in office, deciding not to mobilize to join America or become a colony independent of Britain, Howe determined that Nova Scotia's best option was to remain in Canada and to fight for "better terms. While most Nova Scotians remained supportive of the Anti-Confederation Campaign during this time period, Howe ran in Hants County bi-election of 1869 to get a mandate from
2430-492: The province's second-level administrative divisions such as a county or another similar unit of political organization. In the prairie provinces , census divisions do not correspond to the province's administrative divisions, but rather group multiple administrative divisions together. In Newfoundland and Labrador , the boundaries are chosen arbitrarily as no such level of government exists. Two of Canada's three territories are also divided into census divisions. In most cases,
2484-446: The provinces of British Columbia, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Nova Scotia as equivalents for municipalities. The Indian reserve and Indian settlement census subdivisions are determined according to criteria established by Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada . Dissemination areas are the smallest standard geographic unit in Canada and cover the entire country. As small areas, they comprise one or more dissemination blocks and have
2538-486: The region. The settlers quickly employed their dyke building technology to the vast salt marshes; effectively reclaiming several thousand acres of productive farm land. The farms and the population grew quickly, making Grand-Pré the principal settlement in Acadia. Settlements spread from Grand-Pré around the Minas Basin, collectively becoming known as Les Mines or Minas after the copper deposits surveyed by de Mons at
2592-467: The region. Within Hants County, they fought in the Battle at St. Croix on the St. Croix River . There is a long history of missionary work in Hants County, such as the work of Silas Tertius Rand 's work on Glooscap First Nation near Hantsport . There are still Miꞌkmaq communities in Hants County such as Indian Brook 14 (the home of the famous activist Anna Mae Aquash ) and Shubenacadie 13 . Shubenacadie
2646-545: The song "The Rawdon Hills". The wood in the county was both used to build the many wooden ships, but it was also used as an export resource on the wooden ships. For this purpose, the Midland Railway was also built through the County (1901), connecting Windsor and Truro. The county is noted for very large deposits of gypsum , some of which was at one time shipped from Walton . The world's largest open pit gypsum mine
2700-654: The vacated lands (1760). They formed the townships of Windsor, Falmouth and Newport. Many arrived from Rhode Island . One of the Planters of note during this period was Henry Alline who led the New Light revival of the Great Awakening in the region. Alline's movement had a significant impact on the stance the New Englander Planters took with respect to the troubles building in the colonies to
2754-807: The west, between their British masters, and brethren who remained in New England, that led to the Revolutionary War . Alline's Newlight congregations were the progenitors of the Baptist movement in Canada . The next wave of immigration to Hants County was the Ulster Scots people who settled all along the Cobequid shore such as the O'Briens in Noel (1771) and the Putnams in Maitland . During
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#17327730163452808-595: Was an Acadian Exodus that involved an emigration of most of the Acadians from the Municipality of East Hants (1750) and from West Hants (Pisiguit) as well. They left British Nova Scotia for French occupied Prince Edward Island . During the 1755 Expulsion of the Acadians the majority of those Acadians remaining were deported to various locations along the eastern seaboard of the Thirteen Colonies , most notably New England and Maryland . The Expulsion of
2862-466: Was named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Grand-Pré was founded in about 1680 by Pierre Melanson and Pierre Terriot. Pierre Melanson, an Acadian settler who traveled east from Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons 's original settlement at Port Royal and its habitation . Pierre, an Acadian of French Huguenot and English extraction, had arrived in Port Royal with Sir Thomas Temple in the 1650s when Acadia
2916-533: Was under English control. Pierre Terriot was the son of Jehan born in Port Royale around 1654. Pierre Melanson was responsible for founding the parish of Saint-Charles des Mines while his friend, Pierre Terriot founded the parish of Saint-Joseph de la rivière aux Canards. The fertility of the soils and wealth of other resources in the area had been known to the French since the early part of the century when Samuel de Champlain , de Mont's cartographer, had surveyed
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