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Tidal Mills on the Apple River, Nova Scotia

Mills on The Apple River. For the last decade or so, Kerr Canning has explored saltmarshes on the northern shore of the Minas Basin eastward around Cape Chignecto through to Apple River and beyond to document remnants of old dykes. In 2011, Kerr recognized a shaft for a mill wheel that had been exposed by erosion of saltmarsh on the Apple River. It was evidence that some of the structures buried in that marsh and variously exposed were constructed for mills, rather than for agricultural purposes. In this video, we visit that section of the Apple River and Kerr talks about the activities in centuries past. A visitor to the marsh might recognize the walls of more recently constructed dykes, but would see no ongoing use of them today. The older structures are mostly buried by sediment and marsh grasses accumulated as sea level has risen, or have been washed out to sea as the river channels meander and expose them for a period. There is very little record otherwise of the many activities that took place along these tidal marshes from the Acadians onwards, or indeed by first nations peoples over many centuries well before the Europeans arrived. Kerr's walking of these shores and his keen and critical observations are helping to retain a few glimpses of these days long gone by.