Roxbury, Nova Scotia

Roxbury in Nova Scotia

Roxbury is a small ghost town outside of Paradise, Nova Scotia.

History

Legend has it that about sixty of the Acadian settlers took flight up the river and hid on the South Mountain to escape the Expulsion.[1] Their allies, the Mi’kmaq, raced on canoe from Grand-Pré, Nova Scotia to warn them what was coming in 1755.[2][3] In the late 1800s Roxbury was a logging community with a population of several dozens, but the community ended after the face of the South Mountain was destroyed by a forest fire in 1903 and the community income was lost.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Halifax Herald,1889
  2. ↑ http://davewhitman.ca/lost_in_the_woods.htm
  3. ↑ http://www.walpolelibrary.org/walpolenew/history/hpeopleacadians.htm
  4. ↑ http://www.jontattrie.ca/Roxbury.htm

Coordinates: 44°52′11.06″N 65°13′11.98″W / 44.8697389°N 65.2199944°W