Do not be confused with Wolfsville, Maryland.
Wolfville is a Canadian city in the Annapolis Valley, Kings County, Nova Scotia, located about 100 kilometers (62 miles) northwest of the provincial capital, Halifax. The city is home to the University of Acadia and Landmark East School.
The city is a popular tourist destination due to the views of the Bay of Fundy and the Gaspereau Valley, as well as the many cultural attractions offered by universities and cities. Among these are Acadia Film Co-operative, a non-profit organization that runs local film/show house. In recent years, some Victorian-style homes in Wolfville have been converted into bed and breakfast.
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History
The First Nations
From ancient times, the Wolfville area was a hunting ground for many First Nations, including Clovis, Laurentian, Bear River, and the Archaic Shields group. They are attracted by the salmon in the Gaspereau River and the agate stones in Cape Blomidon, with which they can make stone tools.
Around 700 AD, the first Mi'kmaq, associated with the Algonquins and Ojibwe, migrated to Nova Scotia. Mi'kmaq is a seasonal hunter, uses dogs and travels with webbed snowshoes to hunt deer. They use a variety of semi-precious stones (including jasper, quartz, and even amethyst) from the Blomidon area to make arrows.
French
After an initial attempt in 1604 by Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons and his cartographer Samuel de Champlain to establish a colony on the island of Saint Croix, the colony was moved to Habitation in Port-Royal. France and Mi'kmaq quickly established mutual trade relations that continued to serve both nations until the mid-eighteenth century. The French found the area rich in feathers and fertile soil. The reports sent to France by the likes of Samuel de Champlain, Marc Lescarbot and Nicolas Denys proclaimed the rich gifts to be found in the Annapolis Valley area.
The French settlement effort continues and begins. In 1636 under Charles de Menou d'Aulnay, Port Royal was rebuilt after Acadia/Nova Scotia was moved from England to France under the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye. The settler's progeny, as well as the second wave of settlers under Hector d'Andignà © à © de Grandfontaine, will eventually become known as Acadians. In the late 1690s their population numbered about 350.
The French settlement in the Wolfville area began in about 1680, when Pierre Melanson founded his family in Grand-Prà © Å ©. The Acadians prospered as farmers by attaching salt salt marshes to levees, and successfully converting reclaimed land into fertile fields for crops and grasslands. In 1710, however, Acadia was lost by the French crown after the British besieged to Port Royal/Annapolis Royal. Under the Covenant of 1713 Utrecht, signed at the end of the Spanish Succession War, Acadia was handed over for the last time to England.
For the next thirty-six years, until the formation of Halifax in 1749, England remained at Annapolis Royal and Canso. The French Catholic population grew during the intervening years up to more than 10,000 and the Minas region (Wolfville and its suburbs) quickly became the main settlement. Acadia is a border region between two kingdoms, and this leads to a complex socio-political environment to be developed for the Acadians. Both English and French persuaded and threatened the Acadians in an effort to secure their loyalty as evidenced by the various oaths of allegiance each party sought to extract from them. This complicated situation causes many Acadians to try to maintain a neutral path; while others openly support France or the UK. During the Austrian War of Success, the Acadians in the Wolfville area were involved in the Battle of the Grand Prà © Å ©, where French Canadian military forces, reinforced by Mi'kmaq and Acadians, defeated the British forces.
With the start of the Seven Years' War between England and France, the Acadians in the Wolfville area, along with all the Acadians on the Nova Scotia peninsula, suffered under the deportation that took place during the Expulsion of the Acadians (see also Bay). Fundy Campaign). Beginning in September 1755 and continuing into the fall, about 2,000 Acia people were deported from the area around Wolfville. Villages outside the Grand-PrÃÆ'Â © burned by British troops, and many more buildings were destroyed by both sides during the guerrilla war that lasted until 1758.
English
Around the year 1760, the British government in Nova Scotia made some land towns available land in the Annapolis Valley for colonization by the British settlers. Horton Township created in the Grand-PrÃÆ' ©/Wolfville Area. Due to pressure on farmland in New England, Anglophone farmers moved north to search for fertile land at sensible prices. It is estimated that between 1760 and 1789, more than 8,000 people known as the New England Planters emigrated to the land around the Annapolis Valley. In 1763, there were 154 families living in the Horton Township area.
The New England Planters built the agricultural economy primarily, exporting livestock, potatoes, and grains, and later apples, as well as developing logging and shipbuilding. They settled and reused the same embankments as the Acadians before them, repairing and then extending the farm dikes. They developed a major expansion in 1808, Wickwire Dyke three miles, connecting Wolfville and Grand Pre docks. This allows the development of an 8,000-hectare farm. The site of Horton was originally surveyed in the Grand-Prà © Å area in Horton Landing near the mouth of the Gaspereau River. However, the city flourished around a sheltered harbor on the Cornwallis River in Wolfville, originally known as Mud Creek.
The first official account of the Baptist church in Canada is the Horton Baptist church (now Wolfville), founded on 29 October 1778. The church was founded with the help of New Light evangelist Henry Alline. The Baptist movement remained strong in the area. In 1838 Acadia University was founded as a Baptist campus.
In 1830, the town of Mud Creek changed its name to Wolfville, in honor of Elisha DeWolf, the post office of the city at the time. In the mid-19th century, Wolfville was famous as the smallest port in the world. The city welcomed the Confederacy in 1867.
The Windsor and Annapolis Railway arrived in 1868, then became the Atlantic Dominion Train. Wolfville became a port dedicated primarily to exporting apples from the lush gardens of the Annapolis Valley. Wolfville Harbor is also the ship terminal of MV Kipawo , the last of a long series of ferries connecting Wolfville, Kingsport and Parrsboro for 200 years. The harbor, which empties twice a day due to the Bay of Bay's high waves, was once described by Robert Ripley as the smallest in the world. On March 20, 1893, City was included, with Dr. E. Perry Bowles was elected as his first mayor.
In 1985, the city was declared a nuclear free zone. Wolfville was declared the first fair trade city in Canada on April 17, 2007. In May 2016, Wolfville was designated the third Cittaslow in Canada.
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Demographics
In the 2016 Population Census conducted by Statistics Canada, Wolfville City recorded a population of 4,195 living in 1,972 of 2,585 total private residences, a change of -1.7% of the 2011 population of 4,269. With a land area of ​​6.46 km 2 (2.49Ã, sqÃ, mi), it has a population density of 649.4/km 2 (1,681,9/sqÃ, mi ) by 2016.
Culture
Acadia University Art Gallery and The Festival Theater are both located on Main Street, along with many bistros and boutiques. The city's history is presented at the Randall House Museum, operated by the Wolfville Historical Society. Every year, the Annapolis Valley Music Festival is held on the Acadia Campus, where musicians from across the valley are competing. Wolfville hosts two annual art festivals, the Deep Roots Music Festival in September and Devour! The Food Film Fest at the end of October.
Wolfville has a farmer's market located in the DeWolfe building, a former apple packing shed.
Famous people
- Kathlyn Corinne Beatty (nà © Å © e MacLean), mother of Shirley MacLaine and Warren Beatty
- Joseph Barss, privateer
- Alex Colville, (1920-2013) World War II artist
- Arthur Chute McGill, (1926-1980) theologian and philosopher
- Mona Louise Parsons, (1901-1976) member of the Dutch resistance, WW2
- Eddy (M) Melanson was born in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, on July 25, 1938.
- Gilbert Lafayette Foster, 6th General Surgeon General
Garden
- Canadian Parks
- Lumsden Pond Provincial Park
- Reservoir Park
- Rotary Park
See also
- List of municipalities in Nova Scotia
References
External links
- City City Website Wolfville City
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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