Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Queens County Fair Grounds
Caledonia, Queens, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- fair
- Notice of registration date
- 16 July 2013
- Civic address
- 11 Westfield Road
- Community
- Caledonia
- County
- Queens
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.37841, -65.02107
- File number
- Prov_file_287
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1828 map "The north eastern coast, North America, New York to Cape Canso (center sheet)" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1828 · The north eastern coast, North America, New York to Cape Canso (center sheet) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1878 · Lunenburg Co., N.S. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1878 · Yarmouth, Shelburne counties, N.S. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Kings, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
- 1879 · County of Digby, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
character defining elements, which include: its original location along Highway 8; main fair building with its wooden structure with prominent front facade; unusual roof profile (regular roof pitch over central area and a lower slope shed roof extending over its areas); ribbed steel roofing; hipped porch roof on the front facade; symmetrical front facade with central entrance door on main level and windows (scale/proportion and placement.)