Centreville, Nova Scotia
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Centreville is a rural farming community in Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada, located 10 kilometres north of Kentville on Route 359. As of 2001, the population was 1,047. Route 309 and Route 221 cross at the settlement. The village was once a junction of two branch lines of the Dominion Atlantic Railway. Centreville was home to the 1930s artist, Charles Macdonald, famous for his work in concrete. His concrete home is now a Museum. Another important Centreville resident was Roscoe Fillmore, a well-known gardener, greenhouse operator and author. Macdonald and Fillmore were members of a group of moderate leftists who regularly met in Centreville during the 1930s and 40s and became known as "the Centreville Socialists".
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