Samuel de Champlain is well-known for helping establish a French colony at Québec. What many may not know is that he spent over three years in the French colony of Acadie, which once included Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and…

In early September 1632, the Mi’kmaq who lived along the Pijinuiskaq (the LaHave River) must have been astonished to see two big wooden ships sailing through the narrows between what is now known as Kraut Point and LaHave. They anchored, and 200 men…

Throughout history, everywhere around the world, courageous individuals braved new lands in search of a better life for themselves and their families. For Yarmouth, those people were the families of Sealed Landers, Ebenezer Ellis, and Moses Perry.…

In 1893 William Topple purchased 35 acres of land on the Herring Cove Road from Mary Ann Gray, the daughter of William and Elizabeth (Drysdale) Yeadon. The land was part of the 1771 grant to Captain William Spry, acquired by the Yeadons in the 1830s…

The first permanent settlers in the area now known as Brookside, which is off the Prospect Road, were members of the Scottish-born Drysdale family. The son of John Drysdale and Isabella Bonner of Scotland, John Drysdale was born May 2, 1749, in…

Built in 1787, Cossit House is one of the oldest surviving houses in Sydney. It was built by Anglican minister, Reverend Ranna Cossit, a loyalist from New Hampshire who settled in Sydney in 1786. When Cossit agreed to the post, the…