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  Windsor, Nova Scotia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Windsor is a small town located in central Nova Scotia at the junction of the Avon and St.
Windsor is 66 kilometres northwest of Halifax, approximately 20 kilometres from the eastern end of the Annapolis Valley.
Windsor used to be a railway junction for the Dominion Atlantic Railway where a route to Truro joined with the mainline between Halifax and Yarmouth.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Windsor,_Nova_Scotia   (864 words)

  
 History of Windsor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
Windsor's harbor created a favorable environment for shipping and shipbuilding during the age of sail and it became a major port for shipping and travel.
Windsor suffered two major fires: the first on October 17, 1897 which destroyed much of the Town, and the second on January 6, 1924 which destroyed several areas near the town centre.
Windsor's population has fluctuated somewhat, from 2,849 in 1901, to a high of 3,923 in 1961, to the present-day 3,725.
www.town.windsor.ns.ca /History.HTM   (282 words)

  
 Fossil References by Author   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
Trackways of gregarious tetrapods in a walchian forest from the Permo-Carboniferous of Nova Scotia; Ichnofacies and Ichnotaxonomy of the Terrestrial Permian.
Milner, A.R. A revision of the temnospondyl amphibians from the Upper Carboniferous of Joggins, Nova Scotia.
Pickerill, R.K. Bergaueria perata Prantl, 1945 from the Silurian of Cape George, Nova Scotia.
museum.gov.ns.ca /fossils/refs/alpha.htm   (4586 words)

  
 Destination: Nova Scotia - Page
Windsor is also home to North America's first internationally acclaimed humorist, Judge, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, and his fasttalking, wise-cracking creation, Sam Slick, the Yankee clock peddler.
Windsor's long and prominent history is reflected in the displays and collections at Shand House, a museum that evokes the Victorian lifestyle of a prominent Windsor family at the turn of the century.
Windsor is at the junction of the Evangeline and Glooscap Trails.
www.destination-ns.com /common/trails/areaid.asp?AreaID=1F   (622 words)

  
 SIHR - The Origins of Hockey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
The committee’s task was to examine the claim that Windsor, Nova Scotia, is the birthplace of hockey.
The positions adopted by Dr. Vaughan and the Windsor Society are completely consistent with one another, the only difference being that Dr. Vaughan goes into more detail in supporting his argument and expands his research into related facets of hockey’s early development in Nova Scotia and elsewhere.
Having identified and examined the assertions of Dr. Garth Vaughan and the Windsor Hockey Heritage Society, and having surveyed instances through history of amusements or pastimes that bear, or may bear, some qualities similar to those of hockey, we may now evaluate the claim that Windsor, Nova Scotia, is the birthplace of hockey.
www.sihrhockey.org /origins_report.cfm   (6390 words)

  
 Foaming Nova Scotia - Travelogue
Two thirds of that length is attached to the rest of Canada by a short strip of land about 15 miles wide; the other third of Nova Scotia is Cape Breton Island which is now linked by a causeway and bridge to the rest of the province.
Halifax is the commercial and governmental center of Nova Scotia, with over half the province's people living within an hour's drive of the city.
Driving in Nova Scotia is on the right-hand side of the road, and seemed pretty much the same as in the USA.
www.travel-library.com /north_america/canada/nova_scotia/cwlee.html   (2139 words)

  
 Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame
Kuhn had been a senior hockey star in Windsor before he moved to Truro to play for the Truro Bearcats in the mid 1940s.
Doggie was a member of the 1928-1929 Halifax Wolverines, that year's Nova Scotia Championship team.
In 1930-1931, he was a member of the New York Americans National Hockey League Club and in 1932 he entered the NHL with a bang by scoring the winning goal in his debut game against the Ottawa Senators.
www.novascotiasporthalloffame.com /inductee_view.cfm?InducteeID=159   (186 words)

  
 A proud history   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
Windsor and West Hants residents will soon be making a big splash at the new Hants Aquatic Centre.
Located in the heart of Nova Scotia at the eastern gate to the famed Annapolis Valley, Windsor features the benefits of rural living as well as convenient proximity to Metropolitan Halifax.
While quickly gaining renown as "The Birthplace of Hockey", Windsor is also home to historic Fort Edward; the annual Sam Slick Days festival; Howard Dill's Giant Pumpkins; and the internationally-recognized Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia.
www.town.windsor.ns.ca   (305 words)

  
 Nova Scotia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nova Scotia (Latin for New Scotland, Nouvelle-Écosse in French) is a Canadian province located on Canada's southeastern coast.
Nova Scotia was one of the founding four provinces to join Confederation with Canada in 1867; along with New Brunswick, Quebec, and Ontario.
Nova Scotia is Canada's second smallest province in area (after Prince Edward Island).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nova_Scotia   (3354 words)

  
 Nova Scotia - Windsor to Truro
The town of Windsor is well situated at the crossroads of both the Evangeline and Glooscap Trails.
Most are native to Nova Scotia and were brought to the park after been found abandoned or hurt.
Being the nucleus of a network of provincial highways, Truro is known as the hub of Nova Scotia.
www.mestern.net /canada/novascotia/windsor/index.php   (1281 words)

  
 Nova Scotia History Books.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
(1796-1865): § From Nova Scotia, Haliburton was: a lawyer, politician, judge, and writer.
"Nova Scotia and the Convention of 1818"; (Ottawa: Vol.
§ Halliburton (1775-1860) was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia (1833-60).
www.blupete.com /Library/History/NovaScotia/H.htm   (1825 words)

  
 Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame
Clifford Shand of Windsor, Nova Scotia, was the bicycle champion of the province in the late 1800s.
In 1900, at the age of 37, Shand set a new record of 7 hours 9 minutes on the sandy roads between Windsor and Kingston After retiring from active competition, Cliff Shand stayed very active in sport, and was known as the "Father of Sport" in Windsor.
In 1926, he provided the funds to establish the Clifford Shand Chair in Physical Education at Acadia University Clifford Shand"s home, overlooking the Avon River in Windsor, was donated to the Province of Nova Scotia by his daughter, Gwendolyn.
www.novascotiasporthalloffame.com /inductee_view.cfm?InducteeID=308   (263 words)

  
 The Cradle of Hockey | Birthplace of Hockey | Long Pond, Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
The Nova Scotia Sport Heritage Centre in conjunction with the bicentennial celebrations of King's-Edgehill School, Windsor, Nova Scotia, today announced new documented evidence which once again names Windsor, Nova Scotia, as the birthplace of Canadian hockey in the early 1800's.
Historian Leslie Loomer, Windsor, Nova Scotia, discovered in his research for the bicentennial book on King's-Edgehill, that the famous Canadian author Thomas Chandler Haliburton had graduated from King's-Edgehill in 1810.
J.G.A. Creighton (1850-1930) of Halifax, Nova Scotia is credited with introducing hockey to Montreal with Halifax rules where the first game under organized rules was played in 1875.
www.gameofhockey.com /hockey-evidence.html   (327 words)

  
 IHF's International Hockey Forums - Birth place of Hockey?
In 2001, the Society for International Hockey Research was asked to examine the claim that Windsor, Nova Scotia is the birthplace of hockey.
Vaughan and the Windsor Society base their claim on a quotation from a novel by Thomas Chandler Haliburton entitled The Attaché; or Sam Slick in England.
For one thing, he sees it only as a clue that hurley “was played on ice in Nova Scotia in the eighteenth century”; for another, he avoids conveying any notion that the clue represents the beginning of hurley on the ice.
www.internationalhockeygang.org /forum/showthread.php?t=817   (8100 words)

  
 Windsor, N.S. and Cooperstown, N.Y. are Twin Towns
The towns of Windsor, Nova Scotia and Cooperstown, New York became "Twin Towns" on Aug. 19, 1996, for reasons of interest, because both towns have so many features in common, including the fact that they are the places of origin of their respective national sports.
Windsor settled by French Acadians in 1684 and by English in 1750.
The province of Nova Scotia opened the Haliburton Memorial Museum in 1939.
www.birthplaceofhockey.com /windsor/w8twin.html   (502 words)

  
 Restaurants in ... Windsor Nova Scotia Canada Restaurant Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
Last week Windsor County State's Attorney Robert Sand said he thought illegal drugs should be decriminalized and a different approach used to help people who...
Windsor boys hoops coach hits a career milestoneGreeley Tribune, CO - 13 hours agoThe Fort Collins boys basketball team experienced Friday night lights out as the Windsor Wizards outscored, outrebounded and outdefended the Lambkins on the...
Windsor, who plays Scott Windsor in the soap, was due in court on Friday but the hearing was postponed, and no details of a further date are available.
www.diningguide411.com /restaurants/Canada/NS/Windsor/...   (411 words)

  
 Nova Scotia - Granville to Windsor
Long Pond in Windsor, is said be where the first hockey game was played, hockey being a derivative of the Irish word "Hurley" which was a summertime game.
Windsor's "Sam Slick" Days, held every August, are chock-a-block full of all sorts of family oriented activities.
Windsor also boasts the c1750 Fort Edward Block House, the oldest original military structure in Canada.
www.mestern.net /canada/novascotia/granville   (1414 words)

  
 Windsor - T.C. Haliburton
No account of the history of Windsor would be complete without an explanation of its most important citizen of all time, Thomas Chandler Haliburton.
He became a lawyer, a judge, a politician a writer, and is known as The Father of American Humor.
He also wrote the first History of Nova Scotia in 1829 when he was 33 years of age.
www.birthplaceofhockey.com /windsor/w6tchaliburton.html   (374 words)

  
 Bank of Nova Scotia review
The Scotia Bank launched its branch banking system by opening in Windsor, Nova Scotia.
Till 1882 Scotia Bank expansion was limited to the Maritime Provinces.
The four main divisons of scotia bank are Domestic banking, Scotia capital, International banking and e-commerce or e-banking at scotiabank.
www.scotiabank.mortgage123.org /bankofnovascotia.html   (355 words)

  
 Windsor - Wikitravel
Windsor (New South Wales) - in New South Wales
Windsor (Massachusetts) - a town in Massachusetts in the Berkshire Hills
Windsor (New Hampshire) - a town in New Hampshire
wikitravel.org /en/Windsor   (131 words)

  
 WINDSOR PEOPLE FIRST SOCIETY OF NOVA SCOTIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
Windsor People First group started in 1993 with one advocate, Linda Reardon then Employment Counselor at the old Windsor Workshop, and four members.
The Windsor Chapter has grown and experienced many changes.
Thanks to the support of HRDC, Mayor Anna Allen and Windsor Town Council, or Advisor David Mangle, dedicated volunteer(s), and the hard work of Windsor People First members, we have a Volunteer Office.
www.nsnet.org /windsorpeoplefirst   (282 words)

  
 Windsor, Nova Scotia Bed and Breakfast - Windsor B&B from Pamela Lanier
Windsor, Nova Scotia Bed and Breakfast - Windsor B&B from Pamela Lanier
Search our database of Windsor B&Bs and you'll find detailed listings, current rates, and special deals for bed and breakfasts in Windsor, Nova Scotia.
Travel Author, Pamela Lanier, is a recognized travel expert, personally committed to supporting the bed and breakfast lodging industry.
www.lanierbb.com /Nova_Scotia/Windsor/index.html   (113 words)

  
 Nova International Ltd. - Agriculture & Forestry Equipment - Aylesford & Windsor, Nova Scotia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
Nova International Ltd. - Agriculture & Forestry Equipment - Aylesford & Windsor, Nova Scotia
Aylesford, NS Nova International first opened its doors in 1979 with three employees and a collective goal.
With two locations and over thirty employees, Nova International is here to serve you.
www.novainternationalltd.com   (122 words)

  
 Mill Island Ltd., Windsor, Nova Scotia
Mill Island Ltd. is renovating the 125-year-old Nova Scotia Textiles building.
Mill Island will become a destination with unique retail shops, fine dining, a micro brewery with pub and store, an art gallery, a bakery, handmade chocolates, a coffee shop, 15 spacious condominiums, studio and office space and numerous other possibilities.
The project is expected to make a significant contribution to the economy of the area, with 100 to 125 full and part-time jobs encompassing a wide range of positions, and raising the profile as well as the tax base of the community.
www.millisland.ca   (149 words)

  
 Nova Scotia Hockey History
Get in touch with world-famous Starr Hockey Skates made and used in Nova Scotia a decade before the game was played in Montreal and two decades before it reached Kingston, Ontario.
Nova Scotians were also first to use the forward pass and to allow the goal keeper down on the ice to protect his "goal"....
Windsor, Nova Scotia is referred to as "The Little Town of Big Firsts" because of the several things that began here before they began elsewhere....
www.birthplaceofhockey.com   (463 words)

  
 West Hants Chamber of Commerce - Home
The Chamber is based in Windsor and holds it's regular meetings in the historic town, but seeks to promote businesses of all kinds in all areas of the County.
Windsor, Hantsport and Shubenacadie are the main towns in the county.
The 2001 census indicates that the County of Hants had a population totaling 40,513, an increase of 2.6% from 39,483 in 1996.
whcc.ca   (932 words)

  
 Nova Scotia Vacations, Tourism, Lodging Hotels in Kentville, Windsor Nova Scotia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
Commercial travellers and vacationers alike will find a warm welcome at the Slumber Inn in New Minas, Nova Scotia.
Our beautiful Annapolis Valley is as diverse in recreational activities as it is in the people who have the good fortune to reside here.
With 55 more sunny days than any other part of Nova Scotia, we encourage you to come share our play ground and explore our special places.
www.slumberinn.ca /hotel/nova-scotia3.html   (111 words)

  
 Two weeks in Nova Scotia. - photos of Nova Scotia on Worldisround
Nova Scotia - travel photos - As part of our 7 weeks in the Atlantic/Maritime Provinces of Canada, my wife, Diane, and I...
As part of our 7 weeks in the Atlantic/Maritime Provinces of Canada, my wife, Diane, and I spent almost two weeks in the scenic and historic province of Nova Scotia.
Monument to the supposed landing of Prince Henry Sinclair on Nova...
www.worldisround.com /articles/27703/index.html   (735 words)

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