Mud Creek

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Wolfville, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada
Surnames/tags: Nova_Scotia DeWolf History

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Mud Creek: The Story of the Town of Wolfville, Nova Scotia

• James Doyle Davison, Editor

• a New Horizons Project of the Wolfville Historical Society (1985)

• WorldCat OCLC Number 12528431

• ISBN: 9780969171904

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* <span id="Davison"></span>Davison, James Doyle, ed. ''[[Space:Mud_Creek|Mud Creek: The Story of the Town of Wolfville, Nova Scotia]]'' (Wolfville, Nova Scotia : Wolfville Historical Society, 1985).

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The town of Wolfville had no written history in 1980, and realization of the need led the Wolfville Historical Society to provide one. In 1966, the town had commissioned Dr. Watson Kirkconnell, Dr. B.C. Silver, and Mrs. Elsie Findlay to procure information about century-old houses in the community. Drs. Kirkconnell and Silver compiled the material, and a booklet on Historic Homes was published in 1967. Dr. Kirkconnell also wrote The Streets of Wolfville, 1650-1970.

The Society agreed in 1979 to consider publishing a pictorial record of Wolfville, and appointed Patricia Townsend and James D. Davison who learned that Lois Hill, recent Acadia graduate, ahd received a Canada Works Program grant for a similar project. Hill, Heather Leigh, and James Tillotson researched and wrote for a year Their work was then passed in 1980 to Davison who had been preparing stories about Wolfville.

The book does not provide citations, but is clearly well researched.

Table of Contents

I. In Praise of Wolfville 1

II. History before History 4

III. Early Settlements 11

IV. Horton Planters 17

V. Agriculture 24

VI. Mud Creek and the DeWolfs 30

VII. Transportation 35

VIII. Economy of the 18th and 19th Centuries 52

IX. Economy and Management of the 20th Century 71

X. Religion 89

XI. Education 103

XII. War-Related Activities 120

XIII. Health and Welfare 128

XIV. Civic Protection 137

XV. Public Utilities 145

XVI. Recreation and Sports 158

XVII. Cultural Development 174

XVIII. Organizations 188

XIX. People and Happenings 205

XX. Town Officers, 1893-1980 232

' XXI. 'Index 234