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6 unusual facts about Kentville


2010 Nova Scotia Scotties Tournament of Hearts

The first qualification round was held from December 4-6, 2009 at the Glooscap Curling Club, in Kentville.

Debert Palaeo-Indian Site

E.S. Eaton would later sell his collection of specimens from multiple sites in eastern Canada to a collector from Kentville, Nova Scotia named W.A. Dennis.

L'Acadie blanc

Cuttings of the new grape variety were sent to the Kentville research station (now known as the Atlantic Food and Horticulture Research Centre) in Kentville, Nova Scotia.

Peter Donat

Donat was born Pierre Collingwood Donat in Kentville, Nova Scotia, Canada, the son of Marie (née Bardet) and Philip Ernst Donat, a landscape gardener.

The Maritimes

Nova Scotia has a growing metropolitan area surrounding Halifax, but a contracting population in industrial Cape Breton, and several smaller centres in Bridgewater, Kentville, Yarmouth, and Pictou County.

Wally Byam

Founded in Kentville, Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1955, the club is still in existence today, with more than 6,000 member families.


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Abraham Pineo Gesner

He married Harriet Webster, the daughter of Kentville's Dr. Isaac Webster in 1824, then went to London to study medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital under Sir Astley Paston Cooper, then surgery at Guy's Hospital under John Abernethy.

CKEN

CKEN-FM, a radio station (97.7 FM) licensed to Kentville, Nova Scotia, Canada

CKWM-FM, a radio station (94.9 FM) licensed to Kentville, Nova Scotia, Canada, which held the call sign CKEN-FM from 1965 to c.

Kings Transit

Kings Transit originally operated between Wolfville and Kentville, eventually expanding to Greenwood in western Kings County.


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