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  Falmouth Location within Nova Scotia | |
| Coordinates:44°59′43″N64°10′06″W / 44.99528°N 64.16833°W /44.99528; -64.16833[1] | |
| Country |  Canada |
| Province |  Nova Scotia |
| Municipality | West Hants |
| Time zone | UTC-4 (AST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-3 (ADT) |
| Postal code | B0P 1P0 |
| Area code | 902 |
| GNBC Code | CALNY[1] |
Falmouth (/ˈfɔːlməθ/FAWL-məth)[2] is anunincorporated community in the Canadian province ofNova Scotia, located along theAvon River inHants County betweenMount Denson andWindsor.
Falmouth and the surrounding area was known asPisiquid by theAcadians. Having migrated from Port Royal (current dayAnnapolis Royal) (see alsoHabitation at Port-Royal, an earlier settlement several miles away that predates the French occupation of Annapolis Royal), the Acadians first settled the area in the early 1680s, as the 1686 census lists a number of families on well established farms utilizing productive dyked fields. DuringQueen Anne's War, in response to the FrenchRaid on Deerfield, Massachusetts, in the Raid on Pisiquid (1704),Benjamin Church burned the many villages of the two parishes (Ste. Famille and Notre Dame de l'Assumption) that made up the district to the ground and took prisoners to Boston. One of these prisoners was Acadian leaderNoel Doiron. As with the other Acadian districts of the Bay of Fundy region, the Acadians of Piziquid were deported in the fall of 1755 (seeExpulsion of the Acadians).
By 1760, the land, which was left vacant by the deportation of the Acadians, began to be resettled byNew England Planters. Amongst these new settlers was a youngHenry Alline, who in the 1770s would start aGreat Awakening religious revival. HisNew Lights ideas and followers quickly spread across the region and into northeastern New England.
In the2021 Census of Population conducted byStatistics Canada, Falmouth had a population of 1,553 living in 579 of its 605 total private dwellings, a change of13.5% from its 2016 population of 1,368. With a land area of 5.21 km2 (2.01 sq mi), it had a population density of298.1/km2 (772.0/sq mi) in 2021.[3]
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