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==== 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.
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