Eastern Shore, Halifax County

Beaver Harbour is located along Highway 7, approximately 11 kilometres east of Sheet Harbour. The land was originally part of a 5,000 acre grant made to surveyor Charles Morris in 1773. By 1834 there were at least five families settled in the area (Hawbolt, Whitman, Winters, Hartling, Jewers). A building to serve as school and chapel was erected at Beaver Harbour around 1859. In ca.1912 a union church (pictured) was built by the Anglicans and Presbyterians. In 1953 the union church was renamed St. Augustine's Anglican. In 1971 it was deconsecrated and in 1972, torn down.

Date: [ca. 1950]

Reference:  Eastern Shore Archives D0093P001

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