Frasers Mills

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Frasers Mills (Scottish Gaelic: Muileann an Frisealaich) is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Antigonish County on Nova Scotia Route 316. [1]

In 1828 a wooden dam was built across the South River to power a sawmill and later a grist mill. In 1928 the federal government built a replacement concrete dam to provide water for their new fish hatchery which was taken over by the provincial government in 1982. Over a million Brook, Brown and Rainbow trout and Atlantic salmon are raised here annually to stock the province's lakes and rivers; these fish may be observed in the 37 ponds. [2] [3]

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References

  1. "Frasers Mills". Geographical Names Data Base . Natural Resources Canada . Retrieved 3 June 2018.
  2. Fergusson, C. Bruce (1967). Place-Names and Places of Nova Scotia. Halifax, NS: Public Archives of Nova Scotia. p. 220. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
  3. "Frasers Mills Fish Hatchery" (PDF). Nova Scotia Fisheries and Aquaculture. Retrieved 5 June 2018.

Coordinates: 45°29′43.43″N61°56′15.56″W / 45.4953972°N 61.9376556°W / 45.4953972; -61.9376556 (Frasers Mills, Nova Scotia)