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Kentville Celebrates 125 Years!
2011 marked the year of Kentville’s 125th Birthday. The Town celebrated all year long with a variety of signature events and community projects Check out our collection of photos from the past year of celebration.
“Kentville has an individuality all her own, an individuality as charming as the absence of the sameness in its people...” – An anonymous traveler to Kentville, Nova Scotia. June 8, 1898. The Halifax Herald.
Kentville's History:
- Kentville was incorporated as a Town in on December 7th 1886, marking 125 years as a Town in 2011
- Kentville was named the #1 Town in Nova Scotia by author Richard Rogers in his book Town of Nova Scotia, published in 2006
- Kentville was honoured by Welcome Wagon as best Atlantic Canadian community (population under 10,000) for 2007
- Historical roots of the Town of Kentville include Mi’kmaq First Nations, Acadian, New England Planter, Loyalist & African Nova Scotian cultural heritage
- The McKay Motor Car Company of Kentville produced one of Nova Scotia’s first production automobiles
- Kentville’s Kings County Academy (KCA) opened in 1929. The primary to grade 8 school will have a new building at a new location in 2011
- Kentville hosted Canada’s first summer hockey school in 1957
- The first Apple Blossom Festival was held in 1933 in Kentville and continues to be a flagship attraction of the Town of Kentville
Information taken from:
Comeau, L. V. (2003) Images of our past: Historic Kentville. Halifax: Nimbus
Nichols, M. G. (1986) The Devil’s Half Acre. Kentville: Kentville Centennial Committee
Famous Residents:
(From or near Kentville, including the former Township of Cornwallis)
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TOWN EVENTS
