Hants County Acadian Heritage
Photographs of Sign no. 16
Avondale Hants County Nova Scotia
Located at the Avon River Heritage Society Museum, #17 Belmont Road
GPS location: 45°01’20″N 64°07’50″W
Photographed on 25 August 2006
A reproduction of this “1753 painting of Fort Edward” appears in the
book Windsor, Nova Scotia: A Journey in History by Leslie Sinclair Loomer,
399 pages, 56 pages of illustrations, pub. West Hants Historical Society, 1996.
The reproduction is described in the List of Illustrations as:
“View of Fort Edward in PIZIGUIT RIVER, Nova Scotia, taken
in the year 1753 by Capt. John Hamilton of his Majests. 40th Regt.”
Watercolour. National Archives of Canada.
Photographed on 25 August 2006
Photographed on 25 August 2006
