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Hants County produced two Olympians, both of whom came from along the Noel shore ( See Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon ).
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Hants and County
Statistics Canada, defines the Annapolis Valley as an economic region, composed of Annapolis County, Kings County, and Hants County.
Some also include the western part of Hants County, including the towns of Hantsport and Windsor even further to the east, but geographically speaking they are part of the Avon River valley.
* Cambridge, Hants County, Nova Scotia
* Falmouth, Nova Scotia, a community in Hants County
* Greenfield, Hants County, Nova Scotia
* Hants County, Nova Scotia, a Canadian county named for the English one
Hants County is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia which was the home of Henry Alline, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Alden Nowlan and Noel Doiron.
Originally getting its name from the County of Southamptonshire in England, now known as Hampshire, and abbreviated to Hants, the County was established out of part of what had been Kings County.
Subsequently in 1861, Hants County was divided into two Districts called East Hants and West Hants.
In the course of their historical relationship with the Acadian people, many Mi ' kmaq became Catholic and therefore played an active role in the Acadian resistance to the Protestant British annexation of Hants County.
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 a reserve near Hantsport.
There are still Mi ' kmaq communities in Hants County such as Indian Brook 14, Nova Scotia ( the home of the famous activist Anna Mae Aquash ) and Shubenacadie 13, Nova Scotia.
Shubenacadie is the oldest community in Hants County.
The first Acadians to settle in present day Hants County ( known as Pisiguit ) established farms at ( present day Falmouth ) in the early 1680s, as the 1686 census shows a number of families on well established farms utilizing dyked pastures.
By the early 1700s Acadians migrated all along the shore of Hants County to the Shubenacadie River.
The Expulsion of 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.
Hants County Township Map, 1879
After the Acadians left the area of present day Hants County, New England Planters began to arrive and settle the vacated lands ( 1760 ).
Hants and produced
Along with the great literary figure in Nova Scotia's history, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Hants produced Alden Nowlan, George Elliot Clarke and others.
Hants and two
Only some parts of Farnborough are served by two free local newspapers, The Star Courier ( published from September 18, 2008 as a combination of the former Surrey Hants Star and the Aldershot Farnborough Courier ) and The Rush, along with one local available for purchase, The Farnborough News & Mail.
The line was promoted by the nominally independent Berks and Hants Railway, but this company was absorbed into the GWR two years before Mortimer station opened.
He also succeeded in promoting a bill for the Marlborough and Grafton Railway which completed the missing link between the two parts of the MSWJR, thereby avoiding the need to use the Great Western Railway's Berks & Hants Extension and Marlborough Railway from Savernake to Marlborough.
The station is the terminus for two railway lines ; the Alton Line which runs to Brookwood and onto London Waterloo and the Mid Hants Watercress Railway, which runs to Alresford.
Hants and both
With the founding of both Halifax ( 1749 ) and Fort Edward, there 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.
Specifically, Enfield exists in both the East Hants Municipal District and the Halifax Regional Municipality and is divided by the Shubenacadie River.
The station sat on 430 acres ( 1. 7 km² ) with about a half a mile ( 800 m ) separation between the domestic and the operations site ; both sites being divided by the county line between Halifax County ( domestic site ) and Hants County ( operations site ).
The castle proper is a scheduled monument, ( reference Hants 233 ), whilst both the castle and its adjacent buildings are also Listed Grade II * in the Department of the Environment ’ s List of Buildings of Architectural and Historic Interest ( DoE, 1980 ).
Hants and whom
# about 1650 at Broughton Castle, to Frances Whitehead, daughter of Richard Whitehead of Tuderley, Hants, by whom he had four daughters, Anne, Frances, Mary and Celia.
Hants and came
However, about 1825 a company called The Surrey, Sussex, Hants, Wilts & Somerset Railway employed John Rennie to survey a route to Brighton, but again the proposal came to nothing.
Around 1865, Edward and Pasco Adey came to Lee Bight ( later Adeytown ), from Hants Harbour with the intention of logging.
Hants and from
While most Nova Scotian 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 the people to see if they wanted him to continue to support Nova Scotia's entry into Canada.
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Category: People from Hants County, Nova Scotia
Various forms of the name, the earliest in Anglo-Saxon charters are Icenhilde Weg or Icenilde Weg, designate roads from the borders of Norfolk through Cambridgeshire, Bucks, Berks, Hants, and Wilts into Dorset.
The majority of the bus services from Aldershot are provided by Stagecoach in Hants & Surrey, with one being provided by Fleet Buzz and a National Express coach between London and Portsmouth twice a day.
* Waverley Cricket Club, a wandering cricket team from the Surrey / Hants area
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The fact too that complaints laid before Edward IV himself in August 1461 of wrongful exaction of manorial rights from the tenants of the episcopal manor of East Meon., Hants, were decided in the bishop's favour in parliament in the December following ( Rot.
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The electoral district was created as " Annapolis Valley in 1966 from parts of Colchester — Hants and Digby — Annapolis — Kings ridings.
In 2003, it was given its current boundaries: the area encompassed by the provincial electoral district of Kings West was removed from Kings — Hants and added to West Nova.
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The district was created in 1966 from Antigonish — Guysborough, Colchester — Hants, and Pictou.
The electoral district was created in 1976 from Halifax — East Hants riding.
This riding was created as " Cumberland — Colchester North " in 1966 from Cumberland and Colchester — Hants ridings.
As a consultant, Sir William Jenner had a great reputation, and he left a large fortune when he died, at Bishop's Waltham, Hants, on 11 December 1898, having then retired from practice for eight years owing to failing health.
It is claimed that he was the first writer to call attention to the philological connection of Sanskrit with Persian, Arabic, Greek and Latin. In 1785 he returned to England, and from 1790 – 1795 was Member of Parliament for Lymington, Hants.
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