Falmouth (Nova Scotia)

Falmouth is a town with 1213 inhabitants ( 2011) on the river banks of the Avon River from Windsor in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.

French settlers from Port Royal (now Annapolis Royal) arrived around 1685 in the area now Falmouth. During Queen Anne 's War, the village was destroyed in retaliation for the raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts in 1704.

Falmouth is the birthplace of George Lawrence Price, the last soldier of the British Empire who fell in the First World War.

The place is located exactly half way between the North Pole and the Equator Geographic.

• Place in Nova Scotia
• Place in North America