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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24BF_the-killam-brothers-buildings-wharf_Yarmouth-Nova-Scotia.html
The Killam Family Built a Business
By the third quarter of the nineteenth century, many Yarmouth companies and their owners were enjoying substantial profits as a result of their investments in shipping and labours as commission merchants, ship c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM249Q_the-parker-eakins-buildings-wharf_Yarmouth-Nova-Scotia.html
Merchants and Mariners
True to the code of merchant-mariners, Parker-Eakins & Co. saw their mission as an endeavor "to facilitate the production, distribution and exchange of goods and services for mutual profit and advantage".
To achi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM249M_palais-de-justice-et-prison-d-argyle-argyle-township-court-house-and-gaol_Tusket-Nova-Scotia.html
Le plus ancient tribunal
Le premier gouvernement local de la région du comté actuel de Yarmouth fut institué en 1789 par l'établissement du Tribunal des Sessions générales de la paix qui servait les distr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM249L_the-yarmouth-boston-ferry_Yarmouth-Nova-Scotia.html
The Age of the Passenger Steamer
With the coming of the steam engine, it was only a matter of time before the sleek lines of wooden hulls and trim masts were replaced by riveted steel plates and tall stacks. By the mid-nineteenth century, the sou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM249G_lost-at-sea-perdus-en-mer_Tusket-Nova-Scotia.html
The year 1879 was a disastrous one for Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, with no fewer than 31 vessels lost along with 106 persons. The ships lost were among the best of the Yarmouth fleet, some carrying valuable cargoes. The loss of life left 26 wido…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21YS_the-le-village-of-tusket_Tusket-Nova-Scotia.html
Next to the Court House on the east side of the street was the Tusket Cycle Company and just south of that, the Methodist Church built in 1877. On the opposite side of the street, the building in the foreground with the bundle of shingles was Bern…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21YE_law-in-nova-scotia-la-loi-en-nouvelle-ecosse_Tusket-Nova-Scotia.html
Nova Scotia was the first colony in British North America to receive English law in all its jurisdictional variants, and the first colony to establish the legislative institutions necessary for the enactment of law. It was the first to evolve the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21XT_barges-de-foin-sale-de-buttes-amirault_Ste.-Anne-du-Ruisseau-Nova-Scotia.html
Jusaqu'aux années 1950 on pouvait encore voir plus de 1000 barges ou meules de foin entre la Pointe-du-Sault et la Pointe-des-Hubbard, surtout dans la région appelée « Passe de pré ». Des hommes habiles à la faux p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21XS_argyle-township-court-house-and-gaol_Tusket-Nova-Scotia.html
This well-preserved building, constructed between 1802 and 1805, is the oldest-known combined court house and jail still remaining in Canada. A prominent symbol of law and order, this building type was common to British North American towns in the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21XK_world-wars-memorial-a-war-memorial_Tusket-Nova-Scotia.html
In honour and loving memory
of our heroes
who met death to save life.
Corp. Joseph B. Jeffery
222979, 85th. Canadian Battalion
Died of Wounds, St. Pol. France
Oct. 4th. 1918
Aged 25 years
Pte. Clement Jeffery
905042, 49th. Canadian Batt…