3rd Thursday of every month
Planters 2010 Committee Meeting
5:00 pm at the Enterprise Centre of Hants County in the downtown Windsor Mall, 80 Water Street, Windsor.

The Fifth Planter Studies Conference
June 17th to 20th, 2010
Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Click here for information about the conference and how to register.
Kings County Museum
37 Cornwallis Street, Kentville
The exhibit “Planter Generations: The Cultural Legacy” will be open throughout the 2010 season. Includes artifacts and documents from the Planters of Horton, Cornwallis and Aylesford Townships. The museum also houses Parks Canada’s permanent exhibit and 30 minute film on the New England Planters.

Randall House Museum
Wolfville Historical Society, 259 Main St., Wolfville
Open June 15 to September 15. Admission charge is $2.00. Exhibit: “The New England Planters in Horton Township.”

Fieldwood Heritage Society Library & Heritage Centre, Main Street, Canning
The 2010 Planter anniversary display will feature a large display of Divisions and Farm Lots of the eastern section of Cornwallis Township in 1760, Planter Artifacts of the period, and a listing of the early homes in the area. The Built Heritage Inventory will be available.

1760 Planter Trail Upper Burlington
Built by local citizens using hand labour, this 1760 foot long walking trail promotes heritage and health. Interpretive signage recounts local history and land division from Planter beginnings to the present day. Located at 69 Old Walton Road, Upper Burlington, near the Great Kennetcook Dyke and former Great Acadian Village.
Avon River Heritage Museum
17 Belmont Road, Avondale
The museum, located on the shores on which the Newport Planters landed in 1760, looks at this local event in the context of world history in the time of the great global wars of 1754–63. Records of fifty years of Planter community meetings, starting in June 1760, are available, as well as contemporary artifacts.

West Hants Historical Society Museum
281 King St. Windsor
Through exhibits of household, industrial and shipping technologies of a bygone era, the museum displays the cultural history of one of Nova Scotia’s oldest communities. Help is available with research in the extensive genealogical collection. The museum provides staff for nearby Fort Edward, built in 1750.

Hantsport & Area Historical Society Museum Churchill House, 6 Main Street, Hantsport
The museum focuses on shipping and shipbuilding, and the genealogy of the Hantsport area. Self guided tours of Churchill House are available. The Ben Jackson interpretive panel at the Hantsport school is a stop on the Mathieu Da Costa African Heritage Trail, and the memorial to William Hall VC is very near.

Grand-Pré National Historic Site
Saturday July 24: The annual public lecture will focus in part on Acadian-Planter connections. Please consult the web site under “programs” for more information.

Grand-Pré Public Archaeology Experience
The Grand-Pré Public Archaeology Experience will be held every day from July 12 to 23 inclusive. All those who wish to participate must make reservations by contacting the Société Promotion Grand-Pré by e-mail at fouilles-digs@grand-pre.com or by visiting their Website: www.grand-pre.com. There is a limit of 12 participants per day for the experience, therefore, those interested are encouraged to register early. Click here for more informaiton about the event as well as the cost...

Walking Trail and Interpretive Signage in Upper Burlington, Done as a Commemoration of Planter Immigration.
The Planter Trail is 1760 feet long, and constructed in 2009 entirely by pioneer (shovel and wheelbarrow) methods with no use of machinery except delivery of the gravel and sawdust. Construction was done by members of the Upper Burlington Community Hall Association and the Burlington Workers 4-H Club members and parents. Read More...

250 Years Young! 1760-2010
The Parish of Cornwallis will celebrate two milestones in 2010 - the 250th anniversary of Parish worship, and the 200th anniversary of the erection of the new and second St. John's Church. Services have been held at St. John's Cornwallis continuously for 200 years and the Parish of Cornwallis has sent Delegates to the Diocesan Synod every year since 1855. The present Wardens are closely connected to the founders of Cornwallis Township and the Parish of Cornwallis. Read More...

Henry Alline: A Planter Boy's Immigration Story
The year was 1759. Henry Alline, 11 years old, was living in Newport, Rhode Island, the fourth child of seven in the family of William and Rebecca Alline. His parents had for several months been earnestly considering a big move for their family. Now it seemed a decision had been made. Henry, his parents, and his brother and sisters would be moving to Nova Scotia.
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Dress Like a Planter
Randall House Museum curator and seamstress-tailor Bonnie Elliott is making it easier for those wanting to dress correctly for the Planter anniversary events by holding workshops this summer at Randall House in Wolfville called “Dress Like a Planter”. Read More...


RESOURCES AND PUBLICATIONS
We welcome the opportunity to provide resources to educators who wish to share this aspect of local history with their students by providing a New England Planter Edukit.

A variety of New England Planter resources and publications are available: fiction and nonfiction, academic and popular, federal, provincial and local. Many can be found at local libraries and museums.

The Planter 2010 committee has commissioned a booklet on the history of each of the four townships. You can download them by clicking on the appropriate township below:

As well, the West Hants Historical Society of Windsor has photocopied reprints of:

  • Duncanson, John V., Falmouth A New England Township in Nova Scotia, Mika Publishing Company, Belleville, Ont. 1990.

  • Duncanson, John V., Newport Nova Scotia A Rhode Island Township Mika Publishing Company, Belleville, Ont. 1985.

Titles related to the New England Planters that are available from local bookstores:

  • A novel by Glenn Ells. Starting over : Acadians and New England planters in Nova Scotia in the 1760’s : a novel

  • Jefferson, Joanne K. Lightning and Blackberries. Halifax, NS : Nimbus Publishing, 2008.

 

 

 

 

  
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