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28 WILLIAM ST
Hantsport,
Nova Scotia
B0P 1P0
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Nova Scotia Tourism Region : Bay of Fundy & Annapolis Valley
Description From Owner:
- At one time it was included in Lower Horton and named Horton Point until 1864 when the name changed to its present form. James Fillis from Halifax was one of the first settlers.
- A lighthouse was built at nearby Horton Bluff in 1870. A covered bridge across the Horton River was built in · 1869 and was in use until 1952. See also Avondale.
- With permission from 'Nova Scotia Place Names' David E. Scott 2015
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Avonport woman excelled at ball games
Edna Duncanson loved playing baseball, basketball and softball...and was darn good at the games.
She was described as "A woman of great character and natural athletic ability" and starred in the US at both baseball and basketball.
Edna Miller Duncanson (1916-2006) was recruited to join the New York Bloomer Girls of Staten Island, NY, a renowned professional women's baseball team.
The team disbanded the following year but in 1936 Edna returned to the US and played for two seasons with the Staten Island Shamrocks, a semi-pro basketball team.
In 1940 she married entomologist and fruit farmer Bedford Duncanson and they had two girls. Edna has been inducted into the Nova Scotia Sports Hall of Fame, the Nova Scotia Baseball Hall of Fame and the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY
William Hall
First Black recipient of the Victoria Cross William Hall (1827-1904) was the first Black person and the second Canadian (after Alexander Dunn) to win the Victoria Cross for 'gallant conduct.'
He was born in Horton Bluff, son of an African slave who had been brought to Nova Scotia by the British.
He joined the Royal Navy and was on the HMS Shannon in Hong Kong when a mutiny broke out in India. The crew of the Shannon brought large guns to within 20 metres of a mosque that had been converted to a fort, and opened fire.
The rebels returned fire, killing all the sailors but Hall and a Lieutenant Young. The two survivors continued shelling the mosque wall until the rebels finally fled.
Hall served the navy for another 20 years before returning to farm at Avonport in 1876. He was initially buried in an unmarked grave but in 1947 a monument was erected in his honour by the local branch of the Royal Canadian Legion.
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