CoastalCURA visits Port Mouton
CoastalCURA (Community University Research Alliance) held an international conference called People in Places, Engaging Together in Integrated Resource Management, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 26-29, 2011. A group of 23 delegates from this conference took a field trip to Port Mouton, on the South Shore of Nova Scotia, on June 26th.
The visitors came from Barbados, Bermuda, Brazil, Guyana, the Philippines, Taiwan...Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario and Nova Scotia. They met the people of Port Mouton, a community working to protect its Bay.
This video is a partial documentation of that day.
Protest at Port Mouton wharf on June 9, 2012
The Port Mouton, Queens County and Nova Scotia community responds to news that Ocean Trout will put 300,000 trout in a open net fish farm in Port Mouton Bay the week of June 11, 2012. The Bay has been recovering from 15 years of fish farm pollution (fallowing since August 2009) and putting farmed fish back in the Bay is an environmental, social and political atrocity. Video recorded by Tom Sherman.
Carter's Beach - Nova Scotia's Caribbean Getaway:)
While on our Summer's roadtrip around the coast of Nova Scotia the girls and I stumbled upon a hidden gem, perhaps simply the most beautiful beach in all of Nova Scotia. Made up of soft white sand and crystal clear water Carter's Beach, Port Mouton in Queens County is a place you should visit for sure. Sand dollars by the buckets are waiting for you:)
Fimed
August 2016
Port Mouton, Carters Beach fish feedlot
Alexandra's Echo
music, Aftermath by Gregoire Lourme
Funny, Carter's Beach, Nova Scotia, Icy cold crossing Jan 2011
Bonnie, Bev, David, Ben and Hallie, winter crossing of icy cold lagoon to Carter's Beach near Liverpool, Nova Scotia
ATV Under Pass Port Mouton Queens County funtime
The Bowater Trail has been stopped and it a sad day for ATVing in Queens County,!
We went to Port Mouton to see the new tunnel the government built a few years back under the new part of 103 Highway to give way for ATVs and anyone that want to get there safely under 103 Highway. This is part of the Rails to Trails Queens County system.
The plan is to come from Brooklyn and hopefully to Port Mouton. We have excellent Tourist attraction to offer people come to see our remarkable lands. This a huge business and we to do these videos to help to educate the Public of who Queens County ATV Association and what we do. We built roads and advocate for 4 wheeling. We are about responsible Quads 4 wheelers. We are accountable and take care of helping work on the trails. We went to Broad River Railway Bridge that was abandoned because some folks did want us to go over their bridge. I hope with videos we can help educated people about 4 wheeling quads, bikes. Fun.
Video by- Tony Producer
Thanks for watching ride it safely.I dedicate this to my best friend Jeff, three years hard work as President of Queens County ATV Association for 3 years. He was taken to Jail yesterday April 26, 2018, was given four months for doing excellent work in our community, as a volunteer!
The truth of what happens to the Bowater Mersey ATV Trail Project?
There was no money ever missing. Does Jeff sign a check for the Vice-president, who told Jeff to go ahead and sign his name because they had get funding and Jeff was rush? The Vice went to court in Nov and said he never told Jeff to go ahead and sign his name! I know he did because I worked rate Queens County ATV Association beside Jeff and I knew everything he did for the ATV group! For the amount of check was for a free bridge, which Jeff got for from HRM Halifax. The check was written for the amount of moving the free bridge to Herring Cove Lake, and this was one of three bridges that Jeff did for our local ATV group.
I am a disabled person and was too ill to go to Jeff court case in Nov, to defend him, and I was a director of this group. I was throughout after I did 29 videos and website and worked with Jeff! I have kept my silence since this happen on Xmas Eve 2015 since nightmare all began. Only now am I able to write because Jeff is gone!
Jeff went with his lawyer to the courthouse it to be the six times he had appears in the courthouse in Bridgewater where drag for over 2 years, and he never returns home that day. It has cost us to defend ourselves over $15,000 to fight, and the cost to Queens County ATV group nothing, but for taxpayers to pick up the bill of two half years of hunting us down like animals!
The Banker that came to my home in 2015 had caused the mistrust with Queens County ATV Association. He was responsible for destroying the Bowater Mersey ATV Trail project! For I had documents of an eight-months of BMO investigation team and apologized from BMO bank! I had to be carried up to NB where Jeff had to help me. The stress of this situation nearly kills me! I broke out in Shingles all over my face, back, body, and we found a doctor and a new medication, cost almost 5,000 dollars just for 90 pills for new experimental drug pay by a drug company. My immune system T4 cells were 30, and a regular court is 900 to 1200. I have been slowly getting my health back. The Liverpool RCMP sent a warrant after Jeff and me in NB and dragged us back home and give my medical treatment because of this situation! These people almost took my life, and now are forcing by hurting my best friend by throwing Jeff in Jail, for doing good works for our community. No wonder we are losing volunteers! Because locking up Jeff won't hide this “ Big Lie from such a small place! There is a little thing called the truth and will set our community free! God Bless you, for Jeff can use your prayers at this time!
Port Joli, Nova Scotia
The Port Joli coastal region features a shallow and sheltered ocean inlet, sandy beaches, mudflats, small islands and dunes. These habitats combine to make it a sensitive and unique ecosystem.
Learn more: natureconservancy.ca/en/where-we-work/nova-scotia/featured-projects/port_joli.html
Video and production: Mike Dembeck (
The Cransons perform A Sense of the World
The Cransons perform A Sense of the World during Privateer Days in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, July 2, 2006.
This is South Shore hardcore punk (we like to play fast and loud).
The Cransons: Richard Donovan--vocals; Sean McAllen--guitar; Tom Fralic--bass; Ben Woodford--drums.
Video recorded by Tom Sherman.
The Word from Port Mouton Bay (#1) Bob Swim speaks--Justin Huston listens
Bob Swim, a lobster fisherman from Port Mouton, Nova Scotia, tells Justin Huston, Coastal Zone Coordinator for the Nova Scotia Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture, he feels the pressure of aquaculture and government regulations on his livelihood.
Port Monton Nova Scotia History or the Road
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Port Mouton--The Name
First Name: Wologumk, given by the Mi'kmaq. The word means deep gully or hole in the river.
Second (and Current) Name: Port Mouton, given in 1604 during the visit of Du Guast de Monts, after a sheep was lost overboard. De Monts and his crew settled in the area and used it as a base for exploring the coastal areas of the province.
Third Name: St. Luke's Bay, renamed by settlers from Scotland, sent out by Sir William Alexander.
Fourth Name: Guysborough, named in 1784 by grantees who were disbanded soldiers serving under Sir Guy Carleton during the Revolutionary War. In the second year, all but two houses were destroyed by a fire. The settlers moved to Cape Canso on the Eastern shore of Nova Scotia.
Early Description Of Port Mouton
An an anonymous pamphlet published at Edinburgh in 1786, a description is given of Port Matoon, or Gambier Harbour:
The soil for several miles around is full of rocks and stones and the most barren in Nova Scotia. One of the regiments, (the British Legion, commanded by Lieut. Col. Tarleton) which had served with distinction during the Revolutionary war, began a settlement here and built a town late in the year 1783. Unfortunately for them, being somewhat too late, and the ground consequently covered with snow, they were prevented from observing the nature of the soil until the following spring. Their town at this time consisted of 300 houses, and the number of people was something more than 800. They seeing the sterile appearance of their lands, and all their hopes of course frustrated, were meditating upon the best means of getting away to other places, when an accidental fire which entirely consumed their town to ashes, with all their live stock, furniture and wearing apparel, filled up the measure of their calamities. The summer of 1784 had been uncommonly dry, and many large fires were seen burning in the woods in various places, occasioned either by the carelessness of the Indians, or that of the white people at their work in the woods, in neglecting to extinguish their fires, the ground being at the same time quite dry and covered with moss and decaying vegetables. A poor woman at Gysburgh, (such being the name the Loyalists had given the place,) was undesignedly the cause of the misfortune; the fire, after it was once kindled, spreading so rapidly and burning with such fury as rendered all attempts to divert or stop its progress quite ineffectual, destroying in a few minutes almost every house, and driving the inhabitants before it into the water; one man more unfortunate than the rest perished in the flames. Scarcely any of the domestic animals escaped. In short, a more complete destruction from that merciless element never befel any set of men; and if a king’s ship had not been despatched immediately from Halifax with provisions to their relief, a famine must have ensued. On her arrival she found them without houses, without money and without even bread.
The remarkably dry summer of 1784 was also the cause of a disastrous fire at St. John, which, starting amongst some brush wood near the site of Centenary church, burned everything before it to the Kennebecasis. A large number of log houses were consumed, and a woman and child perished in the flames. The frame for an Episcopal church, at which the Rev. John Beardsley and others were working, on the southwest corner of the old burying ground, was destroyed at this time. The old 42d Highlanders, whose log houses, standing on the south side of Union street, from the ‘Golden Ball Corner’ eastward, were all burned, pulled up their stakes and went some twenty miles up the Nashwaak, where their descendants, the McBeans, McLaggans, Campbells, Youngs and others, still reside.
Captain Marks and his company escaped the disaster at Port Matoon by removing in the month of May to the Passamaquoddy region. The majority of their unfortunate townsmen, after the fire, removed to Chedabucto bay, in the eastern part of Nova Scotia, again giving the name of Guysburgh, (or Guysboro,) to their settlement.
There can be little doubt that Nehemiah Marks and his company were amongst those associated in the enterprise referred to in the following extract from a New York newspaper of the time:
Such persons discharged from the several Departments of the Army and Navy as have agreed to form a joint Settlement at Port Matoon in Nova Scotia, and are desirous of proceeding there immediately, are requested to give in without loss of time, a Return of themselves and families to the heads of their respective departments, in order that a proper vessel may be obtained for the purpose of conveying them and their baggage. They will hold themselves in readiness to embark in eight days from the date hereof.
Recurring Nightmare in Port Mouton Bay
After lying fallow for nearly three years, unfortunately Port Mouton Bay will have another active open pen fish farm. Ocean Trout Farms, a branch of Cold Water Fisheries (Ontario), plans on putting 300,000 rainbow trout in pens off Spectacle Island, Port Mouton Bay, Nova Scotia (site #835). The community opposes this fish farm and continues to conduct its own scientific research to prove the Bay is not suitable for open net aquaculture. Clyde Fisher, retired fisherman and conservationist, observes the bottom near the pens, noting that eelgrass and irish moss has begun to grow again since the area has been allowed to recover since August 2009. Recovery has been very slow to date and this new farm is a setback for the Bay and the community that opposes open pen aquaculture in its waters. Video by Tom Sherman and Jan Pottie, June 15, 2012.
Mouton Island
Situated in the natural bay of Port Mouton, 3 km from the mainland, Mouton Island covers an area of 988 acres, 75 % of which is wooded. Some of the forest could be cleared to make space for an airstrip. Gorgeous white sandy beach, reminiscent of the Caribbean, makes up a third of the coastline.
Lowell Inness and the Sea Serpent in Port Mouton Bay
Lowell Inness, son of the Lighthouse keeper on Spectacle Island, recounts the sighting of a large sea serpent in Port Mouton Bay. Not believing in Sea Serpents is like not believing in Giant Squid.
Sweet Home Liverpool my stompin grounds History on the Road
We went out two days after the blizzard hit Nova Scotia. The Town of Liverpool was just cleaning up a day after the blizzard. We were able to see this snow moment in Liverpool. We hope you like the video and we dedicated this video to those that have disabilities and cannot get out of their homes and we dedicated to those living our west such Fort Maury Maritimes who had to leave for work and feel little home sick this video is for you.
We are planning to go out and record all 18 counties in Nova Scotia on video for history valve. We are going to call this project History on the Road and we hope you like and we plan to do whole province Nova Scotia and this might take few years to complete the project “History on the Road.
Thanks from oldhistoryns.ca
We are planning few years project of making video show all the beautiful places of Nova Scotia. We be going on the Road and we will be calling our new project History on the Road! We realize a lot people cannot get out there home many be disability or some that had leave Nova Scotia we dedicated this channel to you home sick folks for place we call Nova Scotia!
History film
Liverpool, the county seat of Queens County, was founded in 1759 by the New England Planters. Founded for the most part by New England settlers, Liverpool maintained strong ties with the American colonies until the sudden outbreak of the American Revolution.
On July 21, 1762 the Lieutenant Governor and Council of Nova Scotia declared that the Townships of Liverpool, Barrington and Yarmouth together with the intermediate lands should be erected into a county by the name of Queens County. Parts of the new county were taken from Lunenburg County, which now lies to the northeast.
In 1784, Shelburne County was formed in part from southwestern portions of Queens County. The new county boundaries were established by an Order-in-Council dated December 16, 1785.
Queens County contains substantial portions of Kejimkujik National Park, including the main body of the park inland north of Caledonia and the Seaside Adjunct near Port Joli and Port Mouton.
In 1996, the county's municipal government merged with the town of Liverpool to form the Region of Queens Municipality, thus the county is contiguous with the boundaries of the regional municipality, minus First Nations reserves.
Liverpool, Nova Scotia
If anyone of you would like to have something you want record for history on Film please email oldhistoryns@gmail.com Thank you!
SCUBA diving Nova Scotia Canada
Paddies Head 30' bottom temp 51 F
Carters Beach in Queens County, NS Nov.21, 2009
A short walk along the white sand of Carters Beach in November of 2009.
DJI Drone Footage - Ponhook Lake, Nova Scotia, Canada
This is a beautiful lake near Kejimkujik National Park at Nova Scotia, Canada
Turqouise Water @ Carter's
Crystal clear water at Carter's Beach, Port Mouton, Nova Scotia. July 2010. Don't let the beautiful colour fool you.. It's absolutely freezing.
Nova Scotia Southern Shore featuring Carters Beach
Nova Scotia
Southern Shore
2016
Day 1
Storm swells at Beach Meadows beach
I was walking Hubert on the beach on Saturday and got a little surprised by the tide.