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Yarmouth County is a rural county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. It has both traditional Anglo-Scottish and Acadian French culture as well as significant inland wilderness areas, including over 365 lakes and several major rivers. It comprises three municipalities: the Town of Yarmouth, the Municipality of the District of Yarmouth, and the Municipality of the District of Argyle.
Yarmouth is a port town located on the Bay of Fundy in southwestern Nova Scotia, Canada. Yarmouth is the shire town of Yarmouth County and is the largest population centre in the region.
Westport, Nova Scotia is a village in Digby County, Nova Scotia and it is located on Brier Island in the Bay of Fundy. As of 2021, the population was 193.
Arcadia is a small community in Nova Scotia, Canada, adjacent to the Town of Yarmouth. It was originally known as "Upper Chebogue" from its location on the upper reaches of the tidal Chebogue River. The name was changed to Arcadia in 1863. While the word itself may be traced back to the Greek name for a land of peace and contentment, the place name was suggested by the ship "Arcadia" built and launched there in 1817.
Port Maitland is a small community in Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is near the town of Yarmouth, and very near to the community of Beaver River. Salmon River also very nearby, lies within Digby County. The community covers 81.46 km2 (31.45 sq mi).
Yarmouth, officially named the Municipality of the District of Yarmouth, is a district municipality in Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, Canada. Statistics Canada classifies the district municipality as a municipal district.
The Principality of Outer Baldonia is a defunct micronation that claimed sovereignty over approximately 4 acres (16,000 m2) of Outer Bald Tusket Island, the southernmost of the Tusket Islands off the southern tip of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.
Chebogue is a small fishing village situated above the marshes of the Chebogue River in Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia. Farming and fishing are the two main resources in the area.
The Tusket Islands are a chain of islands located in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Nova Scotia, south of the town Yarmouth.
Seal Island is an island on the outermost extreme of Southwestern Nova Scotia, Canada. It is in the Municipality of the District of Argyle in the Yarmouth County. It is approximately 4.3 kilometres (2.7 mi) long and 0.8 kilometres (0.50 mi) wide and is surrounded on its east, south and west sides by dangerous shoals. It is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean and is the biggest of a group of five islands which extend north for 12 kilometres (7.5 mi). It is the second southernmost point of land of Nova Scotia. The southern tip of nearby Cape Sable Island is 250 metres (820 ft) farther south than the southern tip of land on Seal Island.
Eel Bay, previously known as Cape Negro, is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the Municipality of the District of Barrington of Shelburne County. Cape Sable, Nova Scotia By one account, Eel Bay was first settled by the French who migrated from Port Royal in 1620. However other records indicate the habitation and garden of a French Priest at the Hawl Over in Eel Bay as early as 1635, and the 1671 French census records the family of Amand and Elizabeth Lalloue living in Eel Bay.
Carleton Corner is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Annapolis County adjacent to Bridgetown. It is a designated place with a population of 99 in 2021. It is on Nova Scotia Route 201.
Milton Highlands is a designated place located 2 km (1.2 mi) from the town of Yarmouth within the Municipality of the District of Yarmouth in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Chegoggin is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the Yarmouth Municipal District in Yarmouth County.
Greenville is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the Yarmouth Municipal District in Yarmouth County. In 1820, a colony of Black Loyalist descendants established themselves in the community, which was then known as Salmon River. It is home to the Greenville United Baptist Church, one of the oldest surviving churches erected by the Nova Scotia Black community.
Belliveau Cove is a historical Acadian community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the District of Clare in Digby County settled in 1768 on un-ceded Mi'kmaq territory. A major centre of wooden shipbuilding in the 19th and early 20th century, Belliveau Cove built the second largest wooden ship ever constructed in Canada, the County of Yarmouth in 1884. It is now a mixed community of citizens with diverse backgrounds, including Acadians.
HMCS Chebogue (K317) was a River-class frigate that served with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She served primarily as an ocean convoy escort in the Battle of the Atlantic. She was named for Chebogue, Nova Scotia. During the war she was torpedoed and declared a constructive loss.
The Raid on Yarmouth took place on 5 December 1775 during the American Revolutionary War. The raid involved American Privateers from Salem, Massachusetts attacking Yarmouth, Nova Scotia at Cape Forchu. The privateers intended to stop the export of supplies being sent from Nova Scotia to the loyalists in Boston.
Rev. John Frost was the first ordained Protestant minister in present-day Canada.. The "irregular ordination" happened on 21 September 1769. Contrary to accepted practice, the ordination took place without the assistance or representation of any other church body or association. Two years earlier, on 18 December 1767, the Chebogue church chose Frost to be its minister.
