Statistics Canada, defines the Annapolis Valley as an economic region, composed of Annapolis County, Kings County, and Hants County.

View of the Annapolis Valley as viewed from North Mountain ( Nova Scotia ) | North Mountain looking southwest from The Lookoff, Nova Scotia | The Lookoff, north of Canning, Nova Scotia | Canning, in October 2005.

The North Mountain ridge forms the north side of the Annapolis Valley.

From there, the Acadians spread throughout the Valley, in various communities, building dykes to claim the tidal lands along the Annapolis and Cornwallis Rivers.

They continued throughout the Annapolis Valley until the British-ordered expulsion of Acadians in 1755 which is memorialized at Grand Pré in the eastern part of the valley.

Agriculture in the Annapolis valley boomed in the late 19th century with the arrival of the Windsor and Annapolis Railway, later the Dominion Atlantic Railway, which developed large export markets for Annapolis Valley apples.

Corn growing at Grafton, Annapolis Valley in October 2011

Tourism is also an important industry and the Annapolis Valley is known for its scenic farmland, although today some is threatened with suburban development in the eastern end, and a great deal has been abandoned.

August sees Mud Creek Days in Wolfville and the Annapolis Valley Exhibition in Lawrencetown.

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Important manufacturing centres in the region include Pictou County, Truro, the Annapolis Valley and the South Shore, and the Strait of Canso area in Nova Scotia, as well as Summerside in Prince Edward Island, and the Miramichi area, the North Shore and the upper Saint John River valley of New Brunswick.

The Halifax metropolitan area has come to dominate peninsular Nova Scotia as a retail and service centre, but that province's industries were spread out from the coal and steel industries of industrial Cape Breton and Pictou counties, the mixed farming of the North Shore and Annapolis Valley, and the fishing industry was primarily focused on the South Shore and Eastern Shore.

Another area in the region with smatterings of coinciding fiscal and social conservatism is the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia.

* Annapolis Valley Radio, a country station located in Kentville, Nova Scotia

Acadia Divinity College ( ADC ) is a seminary of the Convention of Atlantic Baptist Churches and is located on the campus of Acadia University in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley.

Recently announced plans for the expansion of Highway 101 between the Halifax Regional Municipality and the eastern end of the Annapolis Valley have raised concerns about maintaining the Avon River causeway.

* The village of Canning in the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia is named after Canning.

It has also been grown recently in the Okanagan, Lower Mainland, and Vancouver Island wine regions of British Columbia, the Annapolis Valley region of Nova Scotia and the Lanaudièreand Brome-Missisquoi regions of Quebec.

These include some rural areas of the Prairies, the rural and more traditional parts of the Fraser Valley of British Columbia, the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia and the Saint John River Valley of New Brunswick.

The house is on Old Annapolis road a mile south of Severna Park, at Jones Station, police said.

Within the residential context, the best remaining example is the pristine Hammond-Harwood House ( 1774 ) in Annapolis, Maryland.

Also, U. S. Route 50 between Washington D. C. and Annapolis is named the John Hanson Highway in his honor.

* July 6 – The first class of women is inducted at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD.

The book was developed as a textbook for classes at St. John's College in Annapolis and the aim of this translation is to be faithful to the Latin text.

Its county seat is Annapolis, which is also the capital of the state.

The entrance pavilion of the Naval Academy Jewish Chapel at Annapolis is modeled on Monticello.

The recently built $ 28-million San Juan Natatorium is beginning to attract islandwide and regional swim meets, as well winter training by top-rated mainland U. S. colleges and universities, including the United States Military Academy at West Point and the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis.

At the point where the Susquehanna River flows into the bay, the average depth is, although this soon diminishes to an average of from the city of Havre de Grace, Maryland for about, to just north of Annapolis.

The United States Naval Academy ( also known as USNA, Annapolis, or Navy ) is a four-year coeducational federal service academy located in Annapolis, Maryland, United States.

The United States Naval Academy's campus is located in Annapolis, Maryland, at the confluence of the Severn River and the Chesapeake Bay.

The lower part of the bay is also home to four important sub-basins: Passamaquoddy Bay and Back Bay on the New Brunswick shore, Cobscook Bay on the Maine shore, and the Annapolis Basin on the Nova Scotia shore.

Mount Holyoke is a member of the Pioneer Valley's Five College Consortium, the Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges, the Annapolis Group, and the Oberlin Group.

It is one of the wealthiest areas in Anne Arundel County along with the Annapolis, Severna Park, and Davidsonville areas with the average household value at over $ 850, 000.

Arnold is located from historic downtown Annapolis.

Cape St. Claire is a covenanted, unincorporated community as well as a census-designated place in Anne Arundel County, Maryland 7 miles east of Annapolis, Maryland.

It is a suburb of Annapolis.

The valley measures approximately 126 km in length from Digby and the Annapolis Basin in the west to Wolfville and the Minas Basin in the east, spanning the counties of Digby, Annapolis and Kings.

Within the valley itself are two " major " rivers, the Annapolis River which flows west from the Caribou Bog in the central part of the valley into the Annapolis Basin, and the Cornwallis River which flows east from Caribou Bog into the Minas Basin.

Long settled by the Mi ' kmaq Nation, the valley experienced French settlement at the Habitation at Port-Royal, near modern day Annapolis Royal in the western part of the valley, beginning in 1605.

The valley also struggles with pollution from farm runoffs and residential sewers in its two major rivers, the Annapolis River and the Cornwallis River.

* Annapolis Valley, a valley situated in northwestern Nova Scotia along the Bay of Fundy famous for its scenery and agricultural products

It is a sheltered and mostly shallow water body, framed by the ridges of the North Mountain and South Mountain ranges of the Annapolis Valley ; the basin is geologically a continuation of the valley floor.

The Miramichi River valley initially became a refuge for Acadians fleeing the Great Upheaval in the Annapolis Valley, Tantramar Marshes and Ile-Saint-Jean following the Seven Years ' War, however these families were soon forced to move to more isolated coastal areas to the northeast.