WINDSOR, N.S. — References to the Mi’kmaq fishing and hunting in earlier times on our rivers can be found in various historical documents. In this area, ...
Ed Coleman is a regular columnist for the Valley Journal Advertiser. - File PhotoWINDSOR, N.S. — References to the Mi’kmaq fishing and hunting in earlier times on our rivers can be found in various historical documents. In this area, two of our largest rivers, the Avon and Cornwallis, were recorded as major sources of fish, fowl, and game for the Mi’kmaq.Later settlers, the Planters and Loyalists, harvested fish and fowl on these rivers as well.
Of the two rivers, the Avon River has had more impact on development along the Minas Basin shoreline. The Cornwallis River has a few towns and villages near its banks, the Avon has Falmouth and Windsor, the latter a major commercial and industrial centre long before anyone thought of opening a store in the quiet corner of Horton Township that later became Kentville.
There’s no evidence of much diking on the Cornwallis River, in Kentville or New Minas, with the Acadians concentrating instead on the Canard River. A report on the Cornwallis River, dated 1991, noted that at one time the river “received waste from seven municipal sewage treatment plants, five fruit and vegetable canneries, one potato processing plant, a meat packing plant and two poultry processing plants.”
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