Ardoise

This article is about the community in Hants County. For the community in Richmond County, see L'Ardoise.

Ardoise
Ardoise Location within Nova Scotia
Coordinates: 44°57′33″N63°56′1″W / 44.95917°N 63.93361°W / 44.95917; -63.93361 [1]
Country	Canada
Province	Nova Scotia
Municipality	West Hants
Highest elevation	210 m (690 ft)
Lowest elevation	70 m (230 ft)
Time zone	UTC-4 (AST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-3 (ADT)
Postal code	B0N 2A0
Area code	902
NTS Map	011D13 [1]
GNBC Code	CAAVS [1]

Ardoise (formerly Ardoise Hill) is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in West Hants Regional Municipality in Hants County. ^[1] Its name is the French word for slate, and is considered descriptive of the geology of the area. ^[2]

Reverend George Gillmore was given a land grant of 500 acres in Ardoise in 1786, but found the rocky landscape challenging to cultivate and moved away in 1791. A union meeting house was erected in Ardoise in 1830, and remained standing until at least 1967. A schoolhouse was erected in Ardoise before 1825, condemned in 1869, and a new schoolhouse erected in 1871. ^[2]

Ardoise had a small gold mining industry from 1887 to 1904. ^[3]

References

1. "Place names: Ardoise". Canadian Geographical Names Database. Natural Resources Canada . Retrieved 12 February 2025.
2. Fergusson, C. Bruce (1967). Place-Names and Places of Nova Scotia. Halifax, NS: Public Archives of Nova Scotia. p. 16. Retrieved 12 February 2025.
3. "Ardoise". Not Your Grandfather's Mining Industry. Archived from the original on 23 February 2024. Retrieved 7 February 2025.