Amherst (Nova Scotia)

Amherst is a town in the west of the southeastern Canadian province of Nova Scotia and about three kilometers from the border with the province of New Brunswick. Amherst is the largest city in Cumberland County.

The town of Amherst gained an economically important significance for the movement of goods between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia by their location in the geographic center of the Maritime Provinces of Canada.

History

Initially, the region of Mi'kmaq Indians inhabited what ( go up the rising ground dt ) the area Nemcheboogwek called. The first European settlers were Acadians, the village Les Planches founded 1672. After the Acadians were expelled by the British, founded in 1764, this three kilometers away from the original settlement, the present city of Amherst. The town was named by Colonel Joseph Morse, the first British settlers, in honor of Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, commander of British forces in America.

After the American Revolution, British Loyalists settled in the city.

The Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky was detained in a detention center in Amherst, after he was arrested in Halifax 1917.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Wayde Bowles, former Canadian wrestler "Rocky Johnson "
• Willard Boyle, inventor of the charge-coupled device (CCD )
• Leslie Feist, pop singer
• Maxwell Lucas, R & B and jazz musicians
• Charles Tupper, former Canadian Prime Minister