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had given the order from returning. It was for this reason that the villages of Grand-Pré, Pisiguit, and Rivière-aux-Canards were burnt to the ground. With no one to maintain the dykes, a severe storm in
November 1759 beached the Grand Dyke and flooded up to the Middle Dyke which was badly damaged,
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and Upper Dyke. A large cross dyke was built further down river at Middle Dyke. About 1750 an even larger cross dyke, over a mile long, was built near Port
Williams. Known as the Grand Dyke it located where the current highway
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crosses the river. By this date, the
Acadian village on both sides of the river totaled 750 people and included the extensive dykeland farms along the river as well as several mills.
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after the French word for duck. They first built small dykes to claim salt water marshes for farmland at the upper reaches of the river near the communities now known as
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in short form. The best farms were located at the mouths of 'rivière aux
Canards' river and the 'Saint-Antoine' river. Rivière-aux-Canards was west of
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was wrecked in the lower reaches of the river in
December 1760. The Planter settlement on the south bank of the river becoming known as
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near the mouth of the Canard River protecting in total over 3,000 acres of farmland along the river from the tides of the Minas Basin.
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took up the
Acadian lands along the river in 1760. A government ship bringing supplies up the Canard River for the Planters, the
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190:. The upper reaches of the river are often referred to by the dykes which once spanned the river - Upper Dyke and Middle Dyke.
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182:. The Canard River has a short length of 15 km but its lower reaches are wide and deep due to the enormous tides of the
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It was on this river that a parish was established in 1670 by the name of Saint-Joseph-de-la-Rivière-aux-Canards, later,
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as
Apocheechumochwakade meaning "home of the black duck". The Mi'kmaq also used the mouth of the river for shad fishing.
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name=ARSENAULT, Bona, Histoire des
Acadiens, Le Conseil de la vie française en Amérique, Québec, 1966. p. 189
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The river has its source in a number of small brooks which flow from the sandy pine woods of what is now the
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name=ARSENAULT, Bona, Histoire des
Acadiens, Le Conseil de la vie française en Amérique, Québec, 1966. p. 83
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ARSENAULT, Bona, Histoire des
Acadiens, Le Conseil de la vie française en Amérique, Québec, 1966. p. 192
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298:. The Planters repaired the Middle Dyke and rebuilt the Grand Dyke in 1782. In 1825 they built the
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The mouth of the Canard River at high tide, where it emerges from the Wellington Dyke
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243:. On October 27, 1755 fourteen transport ships embarked 1,600
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returning hundreds of acres of farmland to tidal marshes.
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settled along the river in the late 1600s and called it
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400:Nimbus Publishing (1997), pages 26, 31
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346:Nimbus Publishing (1997), page 23-24
198:The Canard river was known to the
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331:A Natural History of Kings County
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358:Acadian Genealogy and History
312:List of rivers of Nova Scotia
54:Physical characteristics
110: • elevation
16:River in Nova Scotia, Canada
150:between the communities of
98: • location
72: • location
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241:Expulsion of the Acadians
136:Kings County, Nova Scotia
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547:West River Sheet Harbour
522:East River Sheet Harbour
255:, as well as 1,300 from
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425:45.122639°N 64.435472°W
790:Middle River of Pictou
768:Gulf of Saint Lawrence
499:Little Sackville River
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142:which drains into the
969:Rivers of Nova Scotia
777:Northumberland Strait
470:Rivers of Nova Scotia
430:45.122639; -64.435472
237:Bay of Fundy Campaign
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785:East River of Pictou
281:New England Planters
178:military base, near
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398:The Wellington Dyke
344:The Wellington Dyke
253:Rivière-aux-Canards
247:from the region of
226:Rivière-aux-Canards
210:Rivière-aux-Canards
644:Shubenacadie River
537:Musquodoboit River
396:Marjory Whitelaw,
342:Marjory Whitelaw,
214:Steam Mill Village
180:Steam Mill Village
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914:Canard River
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851:Sydney River
805:River Philip
754:Tusket River
691:River Hebert
686:Maccan River
672:River Hebert
639:Salmon River
631:Cobequid Bay
599:Bay of Fundy
575:Mersey River
570:Medway River
565:LaHave River
416:64°26′07.7″W
413:45°07′21.5″N
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132:Canard River
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22:Canard River
865:Minas Basin
557:South Shore
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285:brigantine
184:Minas Basin
144:Minas Basin
103:Minas Basin
48:Nova Scotia
959:New France
948:Categories
883:Avon River
874:Avon River
831:Aspy River
800:River John
621:Bear River
532:Mira River
318:References
269:Beaubassin
876:Watershed
674:Watershed
249:Grand-Pré
230:Grand-Pré
219:Route 358
162:Geography
115:sea level
306:See also
287:Montague
261:Cobequid
257:Pisiguit
245:Acadians
206:Acadians
43:Province
27:Location
239:of the
194:History
146:of the
32:Country
964:Acadia
907:Others
824:Others
747:Others
700:Others
296:Canard
152:Canard
140:Canada
121:Length
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63:Source
36:Canada
88:Mouth
279:The
259:and
251:and
154:and
130:The
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