Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Belliveau House
Church Point, Digby, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residence
- Year built
- 1821
- Decade built
- 1820-1829
- Cultural association
- Acadian
- Notice of registration date
- 3 April 1986
- Civic address
- 1796 Highway 1
- Community
- Church Point
- County
- Digby
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.33734, -66.11543
- File number
- Prov_file_47
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Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesBarry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
3 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1859 map "Colton's Maine (1859)" (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1859 · Colton's Maine (1859) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1878 · Yarmouth, Shelburne counties, N.S. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 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
is that it is the building with the closest historical association with Abbe Jean-Mande Sigogne, the most important figure in the survival of the French and Catholic traditions among the Acadians of South West Nova Scotia.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of Belliveau House are:
-one-and-one-half storey structure
-gable roof
-five-bayed front façade
-centre bay projecting to form an entrance porch and gable dormer
-one remaining chimney
-Mixture of 6/9, 6/6, and 9/12 pane windows
Nearby in the register
- Sainte-Marie Churchchurchunder 1 mi
- Isaac LeBlanc Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.