Editing Hants County, Nova Scotia (section)

=== 18th century - origins ===
====Miꞌkmaq====
[[File:MonumentPeaceTreaty1752.jpg|left|thumb|Monument to the Treaty of 1752, [[Shubenacadie First Nation]], [[Nova Scotia]]]]
The [[Miꞌkmaq]] are the [[indigenous peoples in Canada|indigenous peoples]] who lived on these lands for centuries. In the course of their historical relationship with the [[Acadians]], many Miꞌkmaq became Catholic and therefore played an active role in the Acadian resistance to the Protestant British annexation of Hants County. They were clearly supporters of [[Jean-Louis Le Loutre|Abbe LeLoutre's]] work in protecting Acadian and Miꞌkmaq and ultimately Catholic interests in the region. Within Hants County, they fought in the [[Battle at St. Croix]] on the [[St. Croix River (Nova Scotia)|St. Croix River]].

There is a long history of missionary work in Hants County, such as the work of [[Silas Tertius Rand]]'s work on [[Glooscap First Nation]] near [[Hantsport]]. There are still Miꞌkmaq communities in Hants County such as [[Indian Brook 14]] (the home of the famous activist [[Anna Mae Aquash]]) and [[Shubenacadie 13]]. Shubenacadie is the oldest community in Hants County. There is a significant monument in the middle of the reserve to Major [[Jean-Baptiste Cope]], the signatory to the peace [[Treaty of 1752]] with the British, which was recently upheld by the [[Supreme Court of Canada]] (1985).

==== Acadians ====
[[File:FortEdwardWindsorNovaScotiaCanada.JPG|thumb|[[Fort Edward (Nova Scotia)|Fort Edward]] (built 1750). The oldest [[blockhouse]] in North America.]]
The first Acadians to settle in present-day Hants County (known as [[Pisiguit]]) established farms at (present day [[Falmouth, Nova Scotia|Falmouth]]) in the early 1680s, as the 1686 census shows a number of families on well established farms utilizing dyked pastures. More [[Acadia]]n villages soon followed spreading along the shores of the Piziquid and St. Croix rivers. One of these was at present day [[Windsor, Nova Scotia|Windsor]]. With an expanding population the region by 1722 was split into two parishes (see [[Pisiquit]]). The l'Assomption parish church was situated on a hill overlooking the confluence of the Pisiquit and Saint Croix rivers where in 1750 it was pulled down by the Acadians under orders from the British to make way for [[Fort Edward (Nova Scotia)|Fort Edward]]. By the early 1700s Acadians migrated all along the shore of Hants County to the [[Shubenacadie River]]. One of the most prominent Acadians from this area was [[Noël Doiron]] who is the namesake of the community of [[Noel, Nova Scotia|Noel]]. With the founding of both Halifax (1749) and Fort Edward, there was an [[Acadian Exodus]] that involved an emigration of most of the Acadians from the Municipality of East Hants (1750) and from West Hants (Pisiguit) as well. They left British Nova Scotia for French occupied [[Prince Edward Island]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Patterson|first=Stephen E.|chapter=1744–1763: Colonial Wars and Aboriginal Peoples|editor1=Phillip Buckner|editor2=John G. Reid|title=The Atlantic Region to Confederation: A History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P2spDwAAQBAJ&pg=PP1|year=1994|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-1-4875-1676-5|page=141|jstor=10.3138/j.ctt15jjfrm}}</ref> During the 1755 [[Expulsion of the Acadians]] the majority of those Acadians remaining were deported to various locations along the eastern seaboard of the [[Thirteen Colonies]], most notably [[New England]] and [[Maryland]]. The Expulsion of the Acadians from Hants County began at exactly the same time as it happened at [[Grand-Pré, Nova Scotia|Grand-Pré]], with the Acadian men being imprisoned within the walls of Fort Edward. Fort Edward was one of four British forts in Acadia to imprison Acadians throughout the nine years of the expulsion.

==== New England Planters ====
[[File:HantsCountyTownshipMap1879.jpg|thumb|Hants County Township Map, 1879]]
After the Acadians were removed from the area of present-day Hants County, [[New England Planters]] began to arrive and settle the vacated lands (1760). They formed the townships of Windsor, Falmouth and Newport. Many arrived from [[Rhode Island]].<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/americanav10p1amer#page/n51/mode/1up Rhode Island Settlers in Nova Scotia]</ref> One of the Planters of note during this period was [[Henry Alline]] who led the [[Old and New Light|New Light]] revival of the [[Great Awakening]] in the region. Alline's movement had a significant impact on the stance the New Englander Planters took with respect to the troubles building in the colonies to the west, between their British masters, and brethren who remained in New England, that led to the [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]]. Alline's Newlight congregations were the progenitors of the [[Baptists in Canada|Baptist movement in Canada]].<ref>Beverley, James and Barry Moody, Editors. The Journal of Henry Alline. Lancelot Press for the Acadia Divinity School and the Baptist Historical Committee. 1982.</ref><ref>Bumsted, J. M. Henry Alline. Lancelot Press, Hantsport, 1984.</ref><ref>Rawlyk, George. The Sermons of Henry Alline. Lancelot Press for Acadia Divinity College and The Baptist Historical Committee of the United Baptist Convention of the Atlantic Provinces. 1986.</ref>

==== Ulster Irish ====
The next wave of immigration to Hants County was the [[Ulster Scots people]] who settled all along the Cobequid shore such as the O'Briens in [[Noel, Nova Scotia|Noel]] (1771) and the Putnams in [[Maitland, Hants County, Nova Scotia|Maitland]].

==== American Loyalists ====
During the [[American Revolution]], [[Fort Edward (Nova Scotia)|Fort Edward]] played a pivotal role defending Halifax from a possible land attack and serving as the headquarters in [[Atlantic Canada]] for [[84th Regiment of Foot (Royal Highland Emigrants)]]. After the American Revolution, the [[Rawdon, Nova Scotia|Rawdon Township]] and [[Douglas, Nova Scotia|Douglas Township]] were created for [[Loyalist (American Revolution)|American Loyalists]] (1784). The Douglas Township ([[Kennetcook]] and area) was settled by the 84th Regiment of Foot. The Rawdon Township was settled by loyalists from [[South Carolina]] whose lives had been saved in the [[Siege of Ninety-Six]] by [[Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings|Lord Rawdon]] and the 84th Regiment of Foot.