Minudie
Minudie is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Cumberland County about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) from River Hebert.
The name possibly derives from a Mi'kmaq word, "Menoodek", meaning "a small bay." A fanciful derivation for the name is "Main a Dieu", meaning "God's Hand." The Mi'kmaq word "Munoodek" means "a sack" or "a bag" and the name may have been derived from this word.[1]
Once a thriving town with a population peaking about 1870 at more than 600 people, Minudie today still has three churches but a population of just 20. Industries included shipbuilding, farming, lumbering and the manufacture of grindstones.[2] It was settled, dyked, and farmed by Acadians in the eighteenth century.[3] After the expulsion, the lands were granted to J.F.W. DesBarres, who leased it to displaced Acadians and others who farmed the marshlands, and cut grindstones along the shore.[4] Amos Seaman (1788–1864), the self-appointed "Grindstone King", assumed control of the grindstone quarries there about 1826 and was also largely responsible for the rest of the industries there as well.[5][6]
References
[edit]- ↑ Brown, Thomas J. (1922). . Halifax, N.S.: Royal Print & Litho. p. 95 – via Wikisource.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. - ↑ Dawson, Joan. "Amos Seaman (1788-1864)". Historic Nova Scotia. Historic Nova Scotia. Retrieved 21 September 2025.
- ↑ N.E.S. Griffiths, The Contexts of Acadian History, 1686-1784 (Kingston and Montreal, 1992), 65.
- ↑ G.N.D Evans, Uncommon Obdurate: The Several Public Careers of J.F.W. DesBarres (Salem MA, 1969).
- ↑ Mike Parker, Buried in the Woods: Sawmill Ghost Towns of Nova Scotia, Pottersfield Press, 2010, pp. 46=59
- ↑ MacKenzie,\, Anthony A (1976). "SEAMAN, AMOS PECK, industrialist, merchant, and agriculturalist". Dictionary of Canadian Biography. University of Toronto/Université Laval. Retrieved 21 September 2025.
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